Deep Purple - 'Deep Purple' [320k MP3]

Deep Purple is the third studio album by Deep Purple [MK I], released in 1969 on Harvest Records in the UK and on Tetragrammaton in the US. It was to be the last album with the original lineup.



The songs have a progressive rock feel that verges on classical music, particularly in the long introductory sequence of the 12-minute final track "April". All tracks on the album are band originals except for "Lalena", which is a cover of a Donovan song.



Track Listing [320k MP3]



01 "Chasing Shadows" (Jon Lord, Ian Paice) – 5:34

02 "Blind" (Lord) – 5:26

03 "Lalena" (Donovan Leitch) – 5:05

04 "Fault Line" (Ritchie Blackmore, Nick Simper, Lord, Paice) – 1:46

05 "The Painter" (Rod Evans, Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice) – 3:51

06 "Why Didn't Rosemary?" (Evans, Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice) – 5:04

07 "Bird Has Flown" (Evans, Blackmore, Lord) – 5:36

08 "April" (Blackmore, Lord) – 12:10



Bonus Tracks on the CD re-issue



09 "The Bird Has Flown" (alternate a-side version) (Evans, Blackmore, Lord) – 2:54

10 "Emmaretta" (single b-side) (Evans, Blackmore, Lord) – 3:00

11 "Emmaretta" (BBC Top Gear session 1/14/69) (Evans, Blackmore, Lord) – 3:09

12 "Lalena" (BBC radio session 6/24/69) (Leitch) – 3:33

13 "The Painter" (BBC radio session 6/24/69) – 2:18



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Album Cover



Tetragrammaton ran into difficulty over the use of the Museo del Prado-owned Hieronymus Bosch painting "The Garden of Earthly Delights" which was incorrectly perceived as being anti-religious in the US and thus rejected or poorly stocked by many record shops. The original painting is in colour although it appears in monochrome here due to a printing error for the original layout and the band opted to keep it that way.



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Ritchie Blackmore - guitar

Rod Evans - lead vocals

Nick Simper - bass, backing vocals

Jon Lord - Hammond organ, keyboards, backing vocals

Ian Paice - drums