Deep purple in rock
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September 1, 1970 |
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August 1969 - May 1970 |
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Title (number) |
7th |
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43:30 |
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Deep Purple |
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Deep Purple in Rock, also known as In Rock, is the fourth studio album by British rock band Deep Purple , released in September 1970. It was the first album in the "classic" Mk-II line-up . The album is one of the first and trend-setting albums of heavy metal and hard rock and includes Child in Time and Speed King, two of the most famous songs in rock music .
Music genre
Deep Purple's previous work ranged from psychedelic rock to progressive rock to covers by The Beatles and Ike & Tina Turner. After the performance of “ Concerto for Group and Orchestra ”, Ritchie Blackmore in particular was afraid of the band's image being lost. So Deep Purple decided to take a new musical path. The work combines the sound that has become typical of the band: Blackmore's distinctive guitar riffs , Lord's classical cadences and figures , Gillan's ecstatic singing and the open musical competition between Lord's organ and Blackmore's guitar .
Track list
All songs were written by Ian Gillan , Ritchie Blackmore , Roger Glover , Jon Lord and Ian Paice .
- Speed King - 5:52
- Bloodsucker - 4:11
- Child in Time - 10:16
- Flight of the Rat - 7:53
- Into the Fire - 3:29
- Living Wreck - 4:30
- Hard Lovin 'Man - 7:10
Bonus tracks (25th Anniversary Edition)
In 1995, on the 25th anniversary of In Rock's release, the album was digitally remastered and re-released along with the single Black Night , the previously unknown instrumental Jam Stew and new versions of Speed King, Cry Free, Flight of the Rat and Black Night . Short "studio chats" are interspersed between the bonus tracks, which provide a glimpse behind the studio scenes.
- Black Night - 3:28 (single version)
- Studio Chat (1) - 0:28
- Speed King - 4:14 (piano version)
- Studio Chat (2) - 0:25
- Cry Free - 3:20 (Roger Glover Remix)
- Studio Chat (3) - 0:05
- Jam Stew - 2:30 (Unreleased instrumental)
- Studio Chat (4) - 0:40
- Flight of the Rat - 7:53 (Roger Glover Remix)
- Studio Chat (5) - 0:31
- Speed King - 5:52 (Roger Glover Remix)
- Studio Chat (6) - 0:23
- Black Night - 4:47 (Uncut Roger Glover Remix)
reception
In musical development, it is often counted among the first heavy metal albums. The German trade magazine Rock Hard, for example, awarded a full ten points and in 2007 put it in 60th place on its list of 500 rock and metal albums. In the same magazine, Matthias Breusch summarized the following verdict: “The first regular studio work of the Mark II line-up with Ian Gillan and Roger Glover turned out to be a merciless, bloody revolution, visually appropriately supplemented by the“ redesign ”of the American Heldenberg Mount Rushmore. After In Rock , nothing was like it was before. The Beach Boys and the Flower Children were able to pack up. Even Jon Lord's Hammond organ never sounded nastier or gritty. Darkly trimmed reef monsters like Speed King, Flight of the Rat, Into the Fire, Bloodsucker, Hard Lovin 'Man or Living Wreck dominate here (a rude Gillan homage to worn out groupies ...). And at the top is the spherical Child-in-Time original version, the dramatic implementation of which even classic metal musician Ludwig van Beethoven would have applauded. ”In 2000, Q-Magazine put the album at number 78 on its list of the 100 greatest British Albums of all time.
Trivia
- Although Speed King was regularly played as an encore at the time, only Child in Time of this album could be found on the live album Made in Japan , released two years later .
- The album cover shows the band as stone sculptures, based on Mount Rushmore , as the album title also means something like 'Deep Purple in the rock' in English.
- Jon Lord used both the Leslie loudspeaker and a Marshall amplifier for his Hammond organ , so the organ sound varies considerably with the individual songs. (Example: Living Wreck - Leslie loudspeaker, Hard Lovin 'Man - Marshall amplifier).
- In some countries, the album was released as Black Night , a single that was created while recording on Deep Purple In Rock .
- The Japanese version of the vinyl LP lacks the introductory guitar crescendo at the beginning of Speed King.
- Although it II occupation Mk-was the first studio album, entered Deep Purple in 1969 in this constellation at London's Royal Albert Hall on to the work of keyboardist Jon Lord, together with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , conducted by Malcolm Arnold in public to play.
- The song Bloodsucker was released again in a new recording under the slightly changed title Bludsucker on the album Abandon 1998.
Charts
The album was the breakthrough in Europe and made it to number 4 in the UK charts and number 1 in Germany, where it stayed for 12 weeks. The ensuing in-rock world tour lasted 15 months and was a great success for the band.
The album stayed at number 1 in the Austrian charts for two weeks.
Web links
- Deep Purple in Rock at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thorsten Dörting: Deep Purple legend Jon Lord is dead: The ruler of the Hammond. In: Spiegel Online . July 17, 2012, accessed January 22, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.monstersandcritics.de/archiv/people.php/Deep_Purple/biographie ( Memento from June 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Deep Purple Mark II tour dates 1969-1973. In: deeppurpleliveindex.com. Retrieved January 22, 2017 .