LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 12, 2019…ON THIS DATE IN 1971 DEEP PURPLE RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘STRANGE KIND OF WOMAN’ HERE’S SOME LITTLE KNOWN TRIVIA FOR YOU ABOUT THE SONG. IT WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED ‘PROSTITUTE’ . IT WAS ABOUT A FRIEND OF THE BAND THAT MARRIED A ‘VERY EVIL WOMAN’.
THE BAND WROTE THIS SONG UNDER PRESSURE FROM THE RECORD COMPANY TO “PRODUCE A HIT.” THE SONG THAT WAS RELEASED DIDN’T CHANGE MUCH FROM THE GROUP’S INITIAL JAM SESSION OF THE SONG.
HERE’S A LIVE VERSION OF THE SONG FROM A 1973 DEEP PURPLE APPEARANCE