Lady in Black (song) - Cover Versions

Cover Versions

• Acts who have covered "Lady in Black" include the gregorian chant project Gregorian on their 2006 album Masters of Chant Chapter V.
• Finnish folk metal band Ensiferum covered the song.
• The song was translated into Finnish and covered by another Finnish band Lemon in 1972 as "Nainen tummissa".
• In 1972 Italian singer Caterina Caselli covered the song in her album Caterina Caselli 1972, with title L'uomo del Paradiso; Italian translation has been made by Claudio Daiano and Ettore Carrera.
• The song was covered by the Spanish folk metal group Mägo de Oz in a translated version as "Dama Negra".
• Serbian heavy metal band Kraljevski Apartman recorded a cover version with Serbian lyrics entitled Slike on their 2000 album Izgubljen u vremenu.
• Czech version Slečna závist (Miss Envy) is by metal band Arakain. It was huge hit in 1995 in Czech Republic.
• Italian singer Spagna covered the song in her 2002 album Woman. There is also an Italian language version, titled Di nero vestita, included in Io sono il vampiro, a 2005 album (O.S.T. of the homonymous 2002 horror movie) by the Italian progressive rock band Abiogenesi.
• In 2002 the Romanian group Iris together with Mick Box and Bernie Shaw from Uriah Heep made a new version of this song named "Doamna in negru". This new version was a collaboration between Iris and the two members of Uriah Heep and the lyrics are bilingual in Romanian and in English.
• Ken Hensley also covered this song on his album "The Wizard's Diary" in 2004 and the version 8 minutes long while the original is no longer than 4 minutes and 44 seconds.
• The song was covered and translated on Ukrainian by singer-songwriter Yuriy Veres 2012 album 60/70.