Strange Kind of Woman - Remix 96

This song tells the story of a woman named Nancy whose face was nothing fancy, but she drives the guys wild anyway. Deep Purple lead singer Ian Gillan, who wrote the lyric, has given different accounts of the song's inspiration. In one of his stories, the song is about one of his friends who went after an average-looking girl that didn't like him. He was able to woo her and they got married, but three days later she died. Gillan has also said it's about a prostitute he tried to liberate from her profession, and has introduced that song as being about "my first girlfriend."

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."