Strange Kind of Woman

February 1971

Strange Kind of Woman (English for: "Pretty strange woman ") is a song by British hard rock band Deep Purple. It was released in February 1971 as a single and was released Fireball in the same year on the U.S. version of their fifth studio album. The song combines Deep Purple's "classic" hard rock roots with a fresh " boogie - blues feel ." The single went to number 8 in the UK Singles Chart.

Formation

Strange Kind of Woman was recorded early in the year 1971 on the north coast of Cornwall during a two -week stay. The original title of the sounding of the reef by Blacknight Strange Kind of Woman was " The Prostitute " ( German: " The prostitute "). Only after the completion of the text, the piece by Ian Gillan got its final title. The single was not initially intended for the album Fireball.

As a B-side for Strange Kind of Woman that based on the reef of the older Deep Purple instrumental piece grave Platter I'm Alone was selected, the Roger Glover's recollection that ' thrown together late at night in an hour or so and recorded and mixed by five clock in the morning " was.

Live performances

After his release Strange Kind of Woman was adopted as hit single in Deep Purple's live programming, where it remained anchored to the end of the Mark II line-up in 1973 as an integral part. Live singer Ian Gillan announced the song as follows to:

"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 central part of the piece by Ritchie Blackmore's guitar playing and Gillan was " screaming, singing high " as improvising pattern for musical dialogue within the band. The album Made in Japan includes these idiosyncratic instrumental / vocal dialogue. At its reintroduction in Deep Purple's concert program came Strange Kind of Woman at the reunion in 1984, where the song was well established by 1993. According to Ritchie Blackmore's exit TERMINATION it was only sporadically played live, such as in 2006 when recorded concert Live at Montreux 2006.

Cover versions

  • In 1973 the Irish rock band Thin Lizzy under the name of Funky Junction produced an album of cover versions of Deep Purple songs, including Strange Kind of Woman, includes.
  • While Yngwie Malmsteen's song You Do not Remember, I'll Never Forget led this together with Joe Lynn Turner classic guitar / vocals - communing of Gillan and Blackmore live on.
  • The Serbian rock band Cactus Jack coverte Strange Kind of Woman for her 2003 album Deep Purple Tribute.
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