Maybe I'm a Leo

Maybe I'm a Leo
"Maybe I'm a Leo"
Song by Deep Purple from the album Machine Head
Released March 1972
Recorded December 6 - 21, 1971
Montreux, Switzerland
Genre Hard rock, heavy metal, blues rock
Length 4:52
Label EMI (UK)
Warner Bros. (US)
Writer Ritchie Blackmore
Ian Gillan
Roger Glover
Jon Lord
Ian Paice
Producer Deep Purple
Machine Head track listing
"Highway Star"
(1)
"Maybe I'm a Leo"
(2)
"Pictures of Home"
(3)

"Maybe I'm a Leo" is a song by the British rock group Deep Purple, from their 1972 album Machine Head.

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History

Roger Glover says: "I wrote the riff to "Maybe I’m A Leo" after hearing John Lennon’s "How Do You Sleep?". I liked the idea that the riff didn’t start on the down beat, like 99% of riffs do. Most of the songs on Machine Head were from the first take, or not long after."[1]

Singer Ian Gillan is a Leo (born August 19), the only group member at the time with that astrological sign.

The song was rarely played by the band live, but two live recordings of it have been released on albums, Deep Purple in Concert, recorded in 1972, and Live at the Olympia '96.

The SACD version of Machine Head has an alternate guitar solo on "Maybe I'm a Leo".

Cover versions

Personnel

References

  1. ^ "questiontime". Roger Glover official site. http://www.rogerglover.com/writings/questiontime.php. Retrieved 19 November 2007. 

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