Soldier of Fortune (song)
| 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.