“Strange Kind of Woman” by Deep Purple

"Strange Kind of Woman" was the single Deep Purple sent out in early 1971 to follow "Black Night", and it has the whole band's fingerprints on it: Ian Gillan singing lead, Ritchie Blackmore on electric guitar, Jon Lord working the Hammond organ, Roger Glover on bass and Ian Paice on drums. All five share the writing credit, they produced it themselves, and it came out on Harvest.

It was a hit, too, climbing to 8 in Britain and in Germany and going all the way to the top in Denmark. It wasn't recorded at the Fireball sessions, yet American and Canadian copies of that album carried it in place of "Demon's Eye", which stayed on the British edition. The B-side was "I'm Alone", and a 1996 Roger Glover remix later turned up on the reissued Fireball.

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