Deep Purple – Strange Kind Of Woman (Live, New York, 1973)

Deep Purple Mark II live in 1973 with a performance of Strange Kind Of Woman. (Felt Forum, New York, 27.05.1973)

“Strange Kind of Woman” Single by Deep Purple
B-side “I’m Alone”
Released 12 February 1971
Label Harvest Records (UK); Warner Bros. Records (US)
Songwriters Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, Ian Paice
Producer Deep Purple
Charted No.8 in UK

The band wrote this song under pressure to produce a hit, as they were following up their #2 UK hit “Black Night.” Roger Glover of Deep Purple explained in an interview with Metal Hammer: “We wrote the song down in Devon at a house called The Hermitage, it was a mad time… lots of hauntings going on and séances – a great period in Purple’s history and ‘Strange Kinda Woman’ was written there, in fact I’ve still got tapes of the first ever jam from which that song came from, and it didn’t really change from the jam.”

When Deep Purple performed the song live, Gillan and guitarist Ritchie Blackmore would play a guitar-vocal duel in the middle. This would always end with an extremely long, high-pitched scream from Gillan before the band returned to playing the original song.