Deep Purple (album)
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Publication |
June 21, 1969 |
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January – March 1969 |
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LP , MC, CD |
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Title (number) |
8th |
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running time |
42:56 |
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Derek Lawrence |
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Studio (s) |
De Lane Lea Studios , London (England) |
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Deep Purple ( English for 'Deep Purple' ), also known as Deep Purple III , is the third studio album by British hard rock band Deep Purple . It is the last album that was recorded with the original line-up (Mk. I). Then singer Rod Evans and bassist Nick Simper were replaced by Ian Gillan and Roger Glover .
background
Since the US label Tetragrammaton went bankrupt at the time of publication, original US editions are rare. The album sold worse than the two previous albums and reached position 162 in the US charts. On February 3, 2000, a remastered version of the album with five additional songs was released. On the first releases of Deep Purple , the two songs Fault Line and The Painter were combined into one title. The record was also made in Germany by CRYSTAL Schallplatten GmbH - Pressed by EMI Elektrola and Printed in Germany by Druckhaus Maack. This record was u. a. Produced in 1976 and contains the original titles (see title list below).
For the record cover, executed as a gatefold cover , the picture Die Musikische Hölle by Hieronymus Bosch in black and white was used, into which a small picture of the band was incorporated.
Music genre
Musically, the album shows a turning away from its own progressive rock origins towards hard rock . From the point of view of critics, both the intensity of early heavy metal and the complexity of progressive rock pieces can be seen here. The song April , a three-part tribute to the month of April , the central part was played by a chamber orchestra, parallels were the Five Bridges Suite from The Nice pulled.
Track list
Side one:
- Chasing Shadows ( Lord & Paice ) - 5:29
- Blind (Lord) - 5:20
- Lalena ( Donovan ) - 5:00
- (a) Fault Line (Lord, Blackmore , Paice & Simper ) - 1:46
- (b) The Painter (Lord, Blackmore, Evans , Paice & Simper) - 3:51
Side two:
- Why Didn't Rosemary? (Blackmore, Lord, Evans, Simper & Paice) - 4:56
- Bird Has Flown (Evans, Blackmore & Lord) - 5:29
- April (Blackmore & Lord) - 12:10
Bonus tracks (remastered CD from 2000):
- The Bird Has Flown (Evans, Blackmore, Lord) - 2:54 (alternate A-side version)
- Emmaretta (Evans, Blackmore, Lord) - 3:00 (B-side, single)
- Emmaretta (Evans, Blackmore, Lord) - 3:09 (BBC radio concert January 14, 1969)
- Lalena (Donovan) - 3:33 (BBC radio concert June 24, 1969)
- The Painter (Evans, Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice) - 2:18 (BBC radio concert June 24, 1969)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review at www.allmusic.com (accessed August 2, 2009)