Deep Purple - Deep Purple
NME.COM feature on Deep Purple - Deep Purple album including album review, artwork, tracks, listen now, tour dates, discography and more.
Release date: 28 October 2008
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- Chasing Shadows
- Blind
- Lalena
- Fault Line
- The Painter
- Why Didn't Rosemary?
- The Bird Has Flown
- April (Part 1)
- Bird Has Flown
- Emmaretta
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| Oct 12, 2013 00:00 | Deep Purple | O2 Apollo Manchester | Manchester | Tickets not currently available. |
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| Oct 13, 2013 00:00 | Deep Purple | Clyde Auditorium | Glasgow | Tickets not currently available. |
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| Oct 15, 2013 00:00 | Deep Purple | Nia Birmingham | Birmingham | Tickets not currently available. |
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| Oct 16, 2013 00:00 | Deep Purple | Roundhouse | London | Tickets not currently available. |
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| Oct 17, 2013 00:00 | Deep Purple | Roundhouse | London | Tickets not currently available. |
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Deep Purple - Deep Purple: Wikipedia Album Entry
Deep Purple is the third album by the band of the same name, recorded and released in 1969. The album is notable for featuring the longest track in the band's history - a 12-minute "April". It was also different from the band's first two releases in that it included almost entirely original material, the only cover being "Lalena", originally recorded by Donovan Leitch.
This release saw the band heading into more progressive and hard rock direction, which was further developed on the next albums.
The album reached only #162 in the Billboard charts. The single, "Bird Has Flown" didn't impress the audience either. Shortly after the album was released in the US, and even before the UK audience could buy it, Rod Evans and Nick Simper were both fired when their limitations became evident to the other members.
In 2000, the CD was re-issued along with extensive liner notes and 5 bonus tracks.
It was the last album to feature the so-called Mark I of Deep Purple, that included:
Rod Evans - vocals
Ritchie Blackmore - guitar
Nick Simper - bass guitar, backing vocals
Jon Lord - Hammond organs, keyboard, backing vocals
Ian Paice - drums
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Deep Purple - Deep Purple Lyrics
Deep Purple - Chasing Shadows Lyrics
Chasing shadows, over my walls
With myself hardly sleeping
Dwarfs and giants, twenty feet tall
Fill the room with their creeping
Deep Purple - Blind Lyrics
I see reflections in the water
Autumn colors, summer's daughter
And as the year is growing older
I see winter on my shoulder
Deep Purple - Lalena Lyrics
When the sun goes to bed
That's the time you raise your head
That's your lot in life Lalena
Can't blame you Lalena
Deep Purple - The Painter Lyrics
Painter
Come colour up my life
Oh painter
Come colour up my life
Deep Purple - Why Didn't Rosemary Lyrics
There's a black hill we had to climb
Everything I need but nothing is mine
Satan's world, how 'bout a kill
Why didn't Rosemary ever take the pill?
Deep Purple - Bird Has Flown Lyrics
Oh, the beggar on his cornerstone
Catches pity in his wrinkled hand
But the lover whose bird has flown
Catches nothing only grains of sand
Deep Purple - April Lyrics
April is a cruel time
Even though the sun may shine
And world looks in the shade
As it slowly comes away
Deep Purple - Fault Line Lyrics
Painter, come color up my life
Ohh, painter, come color up my life
Take away the misery
Take away the strife
