Shades of Deep Purple
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Publication |
September 1968 |
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admission |
11-13 May 1968 |
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| Label (s) | Parlophone | |||
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Format (s) |
CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
8th |
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running time |
43:27 |
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Derek Lawrence |
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Studio (s) |
Pye Studios, London (England) |
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Shades of Deep Purple (English for: " Shades of deep purple ") is the first studio album of the English hard rock band Deep Purple and was recorded with the first line-up (Mk. I). It was released as a record in 1968 and is now available on CD in various editions. An edition with bonus tracks contains five additional titles. The album was recorded in May 1968 on the weekend of May 11th and 12th, 1968. It reached number 24 on the Billboard 200 album hit parade .
Shades of Deep Purple is based on the one hand on the then popular pop style , but on the other hand also has hard and unusual traits , which make the album responsible as one of the cornerstones for the development of hard rock and heavy metal .
Music genre
The band Deep Purple showed itself to be influenced in its early days by groups such as the US psychedelic rock band Vanilla Fudge and Keith Emerson's classic rock combo The Nice , although the former seemed to predominate at first.
So coverte the young band, accompanied by psychedelic sounds that corresponded to the current zeitgeist, the famous Beatles -Stück Help! at a speed that suggested that a single would accidentally be played at 33 instead of 45 revolutions per minute. The cover version of Hey Joe, made famous by Jimi Hendrix , was rockier, but - as is typical for The Nice - also more expansive .
While the single Hush - a cover version of a song by Joe South - only found its way back into the band's live program in the 1980s, Mandrake Root was for a long time the typical basis for excessive "live duels" between Jon Lord , back then the actual head of the band, and Ritchie Blackmore . It was not until 1972 that it was replaced in this capacity by Space Truckin ' from the album Machine Head - while maintaining a greater part of the improvisations.
Track list
- And the Address (Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord) - 4:38
- Hush (Joe South) - 4:24
- One More Rainy Day ( Rod Evans , Jon Lord) - 3:40
- Prelude: Happiness / I'm So Glad (Rod Evans, Ritchie Blackmore, Nick Simper , Jon Lord, Ian Paice / Rimsky-Korsakov , Skip James ) - 7:19
- Mandrake Root (Rod Evans, Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord) - 6:09
- Help! ( John Lennon , Paul McCartney ) - 6:01 (Original artist : The Beatles)
- Love Help Me (Rod Evans, Ritchie Blackmore) - 3:49
- Hey Joe (Billy Roberts) - 7:33
Bonus pieces (remastered CD from 2000)
- Shadows - 3:38
- Love Help Me (Rod Evans, Ritchie Blackmore) - 3:29 (instrumental version)
- Help! (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 5:23 (Alternate Version)
- Hey Joe (Billy Roberts) - 4:05 (BBC Top Gear Session)
- Hush (Joe South) - 3:53 (Live)
Web links
- Shades of Deep Purple on Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.rock Zirkus.de: Deep Purple - MK I and MK II . Accessed August 30, 2009.
- ↑ www.allmusic.com: Billboard . Accessed August 30, 2009.
- ^ Metal Hammer: Deep Purple