Knocking at Your Back Door
The opening track of Perfect Strangers, a radio hit built on innuendo.
Deep Purple, from Perfect Strangers (1984)
- Written by
- Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover
- Released
- 1984
- Length
- 7:05
- Album
- Perfect Strangers
Blackmore, Gillan and Glover wrote the song, the first on Perfect Strangers. It received heavy airplay in the United States and was released there as a single in December 1984. In Britain it was the second single, in June 1985. The Seattle SuperSonics used it for their lineup introductions at home games.
The lyric is full of sexual innuendo. Gillan has said the innuendo was a joke. It stayed in the live set until 1994.
More songs by Deep Purple
Smoke on the Water, Highway Star, Child in Time, Black Night, Hush, Space Truckin', Strange Kind of Woman, Woman from Tokyo, Burn, Perfect Strangers, Speed King
Sources
- Knocking at Your Back Door, Wikipedia