Lady (Styx song)

For other songs with the same name, see Lady (disambiguation).

"Lady"
Single by Styx
from the album Styx II
B-side	"Children of the Land"
Released	1974
Format	7"
Recorded	Late 1972
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	2:58
Label	Wooden Nickel Records / RCA Records
Writer(s)	Dennis DeYoung
Styx singles chronology
"Best Thing" (1972) "Lady" (1974) "You Need Love" (1975)

"Lady" is a 1974 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, eventually peaking at #6 on the Billboard Top 40. The track was later re-recorded for the 1995 Styx compilation Styx Greatest Hits due to a contractual dispute between A&M and Wooden Nickel.

"Lady" was written by then-Styx keyboardist and founding member Dennis DeYoung for his wife, Suzanne Feusi, the first song he ever wrote for her. 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.

This song has been featured in various television programs, including episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Freaks and Geeks, The Office, and Still Standing. It has also appeared in films such as The Perfect Man and Old School. Also in the TV show Carpoolers.

Homer Simpson, as Odysseus, endures this song as he crosses the River Styx in the Simpsons episode "Tales from the Public Domain", groaning "This truly is hell!".

Dennis DeYoung sang the song with Hal Sparks in 2006 on the show Celebrity Duets.