Lady (Styx song)

"Lady"
Cover of German reissue version
Single by Styx
from the album Styx II
B-side"Children of the Land"
ReleasedSeptember 1973 (US) [1]
  • November 1974 (reissue)
RecordedLate 1972
GenreProgressive rock
Length2:58
LabelWooden Nickel Records / RCA Records
Songwriter(s)Dennis DeYoung
Producer(s)John Ryan
Styx singles chronology
"Best Thing"
(1972)
"Lady"
(1973)
"You Need Love"
(1975)

"Lady" is a 1973 power 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,[2] eventually peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1975. The power ballad[3] was later re-recorded for the 1995 Styx compilation Greatest Hits due to a contractual dispute between A&M and Wooden Nickel.

  1. ^ "Styx singles".
  2. ^ "Styx at the 2010 Great Jones County Fair". Archived from the original on 24 September 2010. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  3. ^ February 2015, Classic Rock14 (14 February 2015). "The 40 Greatest Power Ballads Playlist". Classic Rock Magazine. Retrieved 23 April 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)