THE LADY WORE BLACK
QUEENSRŸCHE
SONGWRITER: DE GAMO & TATE
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: THE WARNING
LABEL: EMI RECORDS
GENRE: HEAVY METAL
YEAR: 1984
Queensrÿche/ˈkwiːnzraɪk/is an
American heavy metal band. It
formed in 1980 in Bellevue,
Washington, out of the local band the Mob. The
band has released 15 studio albums, one EP,
and several DVDs, and continues to tour and record. The original lineup
consisted of guitarists Michael Wilton and Chris DeGarmo, drummer
Scott Rockenfield, bassist
Eddie Jackson,
and lead vocalist Geoff Tate.
Queensrÿche has sold over 20 million albums
worldwide, including over 6million albums in the United States. They are
considered one of the leaders of the progressive metal scene of the mid-to-late 1980s, and often referred to as one of the
"Big Three" of the genre, along with Dream Theater and Fates Warning. The
band received worldwide acclaim after the release of their 1988 album Operation:
Mindcrime, which is often considered one of the
greatest heavy metal concept albums of all time. Their follow-up release, Empire,
released in 1990, was also very successful and included the hit single "Silent Lucidity".
The band has received three Grammy Award nominations for songs from both albums. In 1998, drummer Rockenfield
received an individual Grammy nomination.
Also in 1998, guitarist and primary
songwriter Chris DeGarmo left the band for personal reasons, returning briefly
in 2003 to write and record the Tribe album. Over the years, his replacements have been Kelly Gray,
Mike Stone,
and Parker Lundgren.
Following a highly publicized backstage altercation before a show in São Paulo, Brazil,
in April 2012, Tate was fired from the band and replaced with then-Crimson Glory singer Todd La Torre. In response to his dismissal,
Tate and his wife Susan (who served as the band's manager from 2005 to 2012)
filed a lawsuit in a Washington court, claiming that he was wrongfully
terminated. The ruling in the preliminary
injunction was that both parties were allowed
to use the name Queensrÿche until a court ruling or a settlement decided who
would get to use the name. A settlement was reached on April 17, 2014, in which
founding members Wilton, Rockenfield and Jackson were awarded the rights to the
band trademark, continuing to perform with the lineup that additionally
includes lead vocalist La Torre and guitarist Lundgren.
During the time both parties could use the
name Queensrÿche, Tate created his own lineup featuring former guitarist Gray
and musicians from bands including Blue Öyster Cult,
Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, Dio, AC/DC and Quiet Riot. This
version of Queensrÿche with Geoff Tate released the album Frequency Unknown on April 23, 2013, while Queensrÿche (with La Torre replacing Tate)
released their eponymous
album on June 24 and 25, 2013 (European
and American release date, respectively). Both bands toured in 2013 and 2014.
The Warning is the first studio album by
American progressive metal band Queensrÿche,
released on September 7, 1984, and reissued on May 6, 2003, with three bonus
tracks.
In 2019, Metal Hammer ranked it as the 13th best power metal album of all time.
On a lonely walk this
morning
A light mist in the air
Dark clouds laughing at me in silence
Casting shadows through my hair
In the distance I saw a woman
Dressed in black with eyes of grey
She wore her pain like a shackled spirit
Eternal life was her debt to pay
The lady wore black
It's the sign of the prisoners lives
The lady wore black
See the years through the tears in her eyes
The lady wore black
Her mystic powers calling me
The lady wore black
Her love can set me free
The wind song
whispered a warning
Telling me to beware
Of the quiet shadowed woman
And of the sadness I would share
We sat for sometime
together in silence
Never speaking in words
Of all her thoughts she spoke with her eyes
And I listened remembering all I heard
The lady wore black
It's the sign of the prisoners lives
The lady wore black
See the years through the tears in her eyes
The lady wore black
Her mystic powers calling me
The lady wore black
Her love can set me free
The words she spoke
were of forgotten lives
And of all knowledge gained
Mem'ries I had and didn't know why
With a smile she explained
I should have listened to the wind's cold warning
And walked the other way
I touched her soul and now I bear her sentence
But for her love I'll gladly pay
The lady wore black
It's the sign of the prisoners lives
The lady wore black
See the years through the tears in her eyes
The lady wore black
Her mystic power calls to me
The lady wore black
Her love can set me free.
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