DEEP PURPLE - WOMAN FROM TOKYO

WOMAN FROM TOKYO

DEEP PURPLE

SONGWRITERS: Ian Gillan; Ian Paice; Jon Lord; Ritchie Blackmore & Roger D Glover

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE

LABEL: PURPLE RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1973

 

       Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in London in 1968. They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, but their musical approach has changed over the years. Originally formed as a psychedelic rock and progressive rock band, they shifted to a heavier sound with their 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock. Deep Purple, together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, have been referred to as the "unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal in the early to mid-seventies". They were listed in the 1975 Guinness Book of World Records as "the globe's loudest band" for a 1972 concert at London's Rainbow Theatre and have sold over 100 million albums worldwide.

     Who Do We Think We Are is the seventh studio album by the English hard rock band Deep Purple, released in 1973. It was Deep Purple's last album with singer Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover until 1984’s Perfect Strangers.

       Musically, the record showed a move to a more blues-based sound, even featuring scat singing. Although its production and the band's behaviour after its release showed the group in turmoil, with frontman Gillan remarking that "we'd all had major illnesses" and felt considerable fatigue, the album was a commercial success. Deep Purple became the top-selling U.S. artist in 1973. The album featured the energetic hard-rock single "Woman from Tokyo," a live staple of the band's since the album's release.

Fly into the rising sun,

Faces, smiling everyone

Yeah, she is a whole new tradition

I feel it in my heart

 

My woman from Tokyo

She makes me see

My woman from Tokyo

She's so good to me

 

Talk about her like a queen

Dancing in a eastern dream

Yeah, she makes me feel like a river

That carries me away

 

My woman from Tokyo

She makes me see

My woman from Tokyo

She's so good to me

 

But I'm at home and I just don't belong ...

So far away from the garden we love

She is what moves in the soul of a dove

Soon I shall see just how black was my night

When we're alone in her city of light

 

Rising from the neon gloom

Shining like a crazy moon

Yeah, she turns me on like a fire

I get high

 

My woman from Tokyo

She makes me see

My woman from Tokyo

She's so good to me.