Soldier of Fortune (song)

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Soldier of Fortune
Deep Purple
publication November 1974
length 3:13
Genre (s) Ballad , blues rock , folk rock
text David Coverdale
music Ritchie Blackmore
Label EMI Music (Europe)
Warner Bros. (USA)
album Stormbringer
Cover versions
2006 Opeth : Ghost Reveries
2015 Whitesnake : The Purple Album

Soldier of Fortune is a ballad by British hard rock band Deep Purple that was released on the 1974 album Stormbringer .

admission

Soldier of Fortune was recorded in the Munich Musicland Studios in August 1974 , but was never released as a single. The song is one of the outstanding pieces on the album.

Live performances

Deep Purple performed the song live on the Come Taste the Band tour in late 1975, and released it on the album Last Concert in Japan , which was only released in 1977 after the band split up.

Remakes and cover versions

Ex-Deep Purple singer David Coverdale first performed Soldier of Fortune in the early 1980s with his band Whitesnake . The song found its way into their live program more and more often in later years, on compilations, best-of albums and finally as a cover version on The Purple album in 2015 . Soldier of Fortune has achieved cult status over the years and appears regularly on Deep Purple compilations and best-of albums. Other cover versions come from Opeth (on their album Ghost Reveries and as a single), Black Majesty (on the album Tomorrowland ), Blackmore's Night (on the live album Past Times with Good Company ) and Rainbow . In 2014 the song was performed in memory of the late Deep Purple organist Jon Lord ( Celebrating Jon Lord ) with Glenn Hughes as singer at the Sunflower Jam in London's Royal Albert Hall .

Web links

literature

  • Jürgen Roth and Michael Sailer: Deep Purple, the story of a band . Verlagsgruppe Koch GmbH / Hannibal, 2005. p. 270.

Individual evidence

  1. Stormbringer . AllMusic Review by Alex Henderson
  2. Deep Purple live albums at www.thehighwaystar.com
  3. ^ Soldier of Fortune at www.allmusic.com
  4. www.radiobonn.de - Celebrating Jon Lord