Maybe I'm a Leo

"Maybe I'm a Leo"
Cover of the 1973 Australia single
Song by Deep Purple from the album Machine Head
Released	March 1972
Recorded	6–21 December 1971, Montreux, Switzerland
Genre	Hard rock, heavy metal, blues rock
Length	4:52
Label	EMI (UK) Warner Bros. (US)
Writer(s)	Ritchie Blackmore Ian Gillan Roger Glover Jon Lord Ian Paice
Producer(s)	Deep Purple
Machine Head track listing
8 tracks "Highway Star" "Maybe I'm a Leo" "Pictures of Home" "Never Before" "Smoke on the Water" "Lazy" "Space Truckin'" "When a Blind Man Cries"

"Maybe I'm a Leo" is a song by the British rock group Deep Purple, from their 1972 album Machine Head.

Roger Glover says: "I wrote the riff to "Maybe I’m a Leo" after hearing John Lennon’s "How Do You Sleep?". I liked the idea that the riff didn’t start on the down beat, like 99% of riffs do. Most of the songs on Machine Head were from the first take, or not long after."

Singer Ian Gillan is a Leo (born 19 August), the only group member at the time with that astrological sign.

The song was rarely played by the band live, but three live recordings of it have been released on albums, Deep Purple in Concert, recorded in 1972, Live at the Olympia '96, and Live at Montreux 2011.

The SACD version of Machine Head has an alternative guitar solo on "Maybe I'm a Leo".