Women in Love (Van Halen song)

"Women in Love..." is a song by American hard rock band Van Halen that features on their second album "Van Halen II" released in 1979. It features 3 different introductions before David Lee Roth's vocals kick in. The first of these incorporates the artificial tapped harmonics technique which guitarist Eddie Van Halen used again on the songs "Girl Gone Bad", from "1984" and "Aftershock" from the 1995 "Balance". The song, in particular the guitar solo is very simple by Van Halen's standards and this could be partly due to the fact it was taken from an early Van Halen demo called Woman In Love most famous for being on the Gene Simmons produced demos of 1977. Many fans of the band claim they enjoy this demo version better than the song it later became. The lyrical theme of Women In Love... is the true story of Roth's ex-girlfriend leaving him to engage in a relationship with another female. The outro to the song has a sound similar to something that may be played by Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath.