Strange Kind of Woman
| Strange Kind of Woman | |
|---|---|
| Deep Purple | |
| publication | February 1971 |
| length | 3:49 |
| Genre (s) | Rock , hard rock , blues rock |
| Author (s) | Ritchie Blackmore , Ian Gillan , Roger Glover , Jon Lord , Ian Paice |
| Label |
Harvest (Europe) Warner Bros. (USA, Japan) |
| album | Fireball (US version) |
Strange Kind of Woman (English for: 'Pretty strange woman') is a song by the British hard rock band Deep Purple . It was released as a single in February 1971 and was also released on the US version of their fifth studio album Fireball that same year . The song combines Deep Purple's “classic” hard rock roots with a fresh “ boogie - blues feeling” and reached number 8 on the British single charts .
Emergence
Strange Kind of Woman was recorded during a two-week stay on the north coast of Cornwall in early 1971 . The original title of the reef by Blacknight seemingly Strange Kind of Woman was "The Prostitute" (German: The prostitute '). It was only after the text was completed that Ian Gillan gave the piece its final title. The single was initially not intended for the album Fireball .
The B-side for Strange Kind of Woman was I'm Alone , based on the riff of the older Deep Purple instrumental, Grabsplatter , which Roger Glover remembers “chucked together and recorded late at night in an hour or so and mixed at five in the morning " has been.
Live performances
After its release, Strange Kind of Woman was included as a hit single in Deep Purple's live program, where it remained an integral part until the end of the Mark II line-up in 1973. Live singer Ian Gillan announced the song as follows:
“It was about a friend of ours who got mixed up with a very evil woman and it was a sad story. They got married in the end. And a few days after they got married, the lady died. "
At concerts, the middle section of the piece served as an improvisation pattern for musical dialogue within the band using Ritchie Blackmore's guitar playing and Gillan's “screaming, high-pitched vocals”. The album Made in Japan also contains this idiosyncratic instrumental-vocal dialogue. Strange Kind of Woman was reintroduced into Deep Purple's concert program at the Reunification in 1984, where the song remained firmly anchored until 1993. After Ritchie Blackmore's final exit, it was initially only played live sporadically before it found its way back into the band's live program around 2000 and is still played there as an integral part of every concert today.
Cover versions
- In 1973 the Irish rock band Thin Lizzy produced an album under the name Funky Junction , which contains covers of Deep Purple songs, including Strange Kind of Woman .
- During Yngwie Malmsteen's song You Don't Remember, I'll Never Forget , he performed the classical guitar / vocals dialogue between Gillan and Blackmore live with Joe Lynn Turner .
- Serbian rock band Cactus Jack covered Strange Kind of Woman for their 2003 album Deep Purple Tribute .
- In 2007 the song appeared on the Made in Japan album, which was covered live by Dream Theater .
Web links
Strange Kind of Woman in “Deep Purple Song Lyrics” on “The Highway Star”
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Roth and Michael Sailer: Deep Purple, the story of a band . Verlagsgruppe Koch GmbH / Hannibal, 2005. p. 145.
- ↑ Jürgen Roth and Michael Sailer: Deep Purple, the story of a band . Verlagsgruppe Koch GmbH / Hannibal, 2005. p. 153.
- ↑ Jürgen Roth and Michael Sailer: Deep Purple, the story of a band . Verlagsgruppe Koch GmbH / Hannibal, 2005. p. 156.
- ↑ Deep Purple - Strange Kind Of Woman, Live In Copenhagen 1972
- ^ Funky Junction - Play a Tribute to Deep Purple