"Lady" is a 1973 rock ballad written and performed by the rock band Styx. It was first released on Styx II and was a local hit in the band's native Chicago, but initially failed to chart nationally. The song gained success shortly after Styx left Wooden Nickel Records to move to A&M; Records in 1974 as it began picking up airplay nationwide,[1] eventually peaking at #6 on the Billboard Top 40 in March 1975. The track was later re-recorded for the 1995 Styx compilation Greatest Hits due to a contractual dispute between A&M; and Wooden Nickel. "Lady" was written by Dennis DeYoung for his wife, Suzanne Feusi, the first song he ever wrote for her.[2] DeYoung recounted to Contemporary Keyboard magazine for the January 1981 issue that the first time he ever played acoustic piano was when the band arrived at the recording studio to record "Lady" and saw the piano in the studio; DeYoung had written the song on an electric piano, but decided to try it out on the piano instead, and liked the sound so much that he switched to the piano for the recorded version. It didn't get much promotion and went nowhere, until a DJ named Jeff Davis on WLS in Chicago who was determined to make it a hit played the song every night at 8pm, until it became a national hit.[3] This is the only song from the band's four Wooden Nickel-era albums that is still performed live; all other material from those years has been long disowned by the band. Former lead singer Dennis DeYoung also performs the song regularly on his solo tours. Dennis DeYoung - Piano, Synthesizer, Lead Vocals Chuck Panozzo - Bass, Vocals James Young - Guitar, Vocals John Curulewski - Guitar, Vocals John Panozzo - Drums Lady '95 is a 1995 Styx re-recording of the 1973 song "Lady". It was rerecorded as a result of a contractual dispute between A&M; Records and Wooden Nickel Records. It solely appears on A&M; compilations, most notably "Styx: Greatest Hits", for which the song was rerecorded. The re-recorded version received mixed reviews from fans. Some claimed it sounded better than the original version. They claimed it was cleaner and more even. However, other fans still stick to the original, being that the original was the one that hit #6 on the charts. Dennis DeYoung - piano, vocals Chuck Panozzo - bass, vocals James Young - guitar, vocals Tommy Shaw - guitar, vocals Todd Sucherman - drums "Kashmir" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin from their sixth album Physical Graffiti, released in 1975. It was written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant (with contributions from John Bonham) over a period of three years with lyrics dating to 1973. The song became a concert staple, performed by the band at almost every concert after its release. The song is more than eight minutes long, which radio stations usually consider too long, but it still received radio plays since "Stairway to Heaven", which was almost as long, had become so popular. The lyrics were written by Robert Plant in 1973 immediately after Led Zeppelin's 1973 US Tour, in an area he called "the waste lands" of Southern Morocco, while driving from Goulimine to Tantan in the Sahara Desert. This was despite the fact that the song is named after Kashmir, a region in the Indian subcontinent. As Plant explained to rock journalist Cameron Crowe: The whole inspiration came from the fact that the road went on and on and on. It was a single-track road which neatly cut through the desert. Two miles to the East and West were ridges of sandrock. It basically looked like you were driving down a channel, this dilapidated road, and there was seemingly no end to it. 'Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dreams...' It's one of my favourites...that, 'All My Love' and 'In the Light' and two or three others really were the finest moments. But 'Kashmir' in particular. It was so positive, lyrically. It was an amazing piece of music to write to, and an incredible challenge for me ... Because of the time signature, the whole deal of the song is... not grandiose, but powerful: it required some kind of epithet, or abstract lyrical setting about the whole idea of life being an adventure and being a series of illuminated moments. But everything is not what you see. It was quite a task, ’cause I couldn’t sing it. It was like the song was bigger than me. It’s true: I was petrified, it’s true. It was painful; I was virtually in tears. In an interview he gave to William S. Burroughs in 1975, Page mentioned that at the time the song was composed, none of the band members had ever been to Kashmir.

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