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Deep Purple
Studio album by Deep Purple
Released	June, 1969 (US); November, 1969 (UK)
Recorded	January to March 1969; at De Lane Lea, London
Genre	Hard rock, psychedelic rock, progressive rock
Length	44:34 (Original LP); 59:26 (2000 CD edition)
Label	Harvest Records (UK); Tetragrammaton (US); Polydor (Cananda)
Producer	Derek Lawrence
Professional reviews
	Allmusic link;
Deep Purple chronology
Re-issue cover
	Remastered

Deep Purple is the third studio album by English hard rock band Deep Purple, released in 1969 on Harvest Records in the United Kingdom and on Tetragrammaton in the US. It was to be the last album with the original lineup.

The songs have a psychedelic rock particularly in the Seven Track "Bird has Flown" and progressive rock feel that verges on classical music, particularly in the long introductory sequence of the 12-minute final track "April", which is thus far Deep Purple's longest studio recording. All tracks on the album are band originals except for "Lalena", which is a cover of a Donovan song.

[edit] 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^[2]. 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.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

"Chasing Shadows" (Jon Lord, Ian Paice) – 5:34
"Blind" (Lord) – 5:26
"Lalena" (Donovan Leitch) – 5:05
a) "Fault Line" (Ritchie Blackmore, Nick Simper, Lord, Paice)
b) "The Painter" (Rod Evans, Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice) – 5:38

[edit] Side two

"Why Didn't Rosemary?" (Evans, Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice) – 5:04
"The Bird Has Flown" (Evans, Blackmore, Lord) – 5:36
"April" (Blackmore, Lord) – 12:10

[edit] Bonus tracks on the CD re-issue

"The Bird Has Flown" (alternate b-side version) (Evans, Blackmore, Lord) – 2:54
"Emmaretta" (single a-side) (Evans, Blackmore, Lord) – 3:00
"Emmaretta" (BBC radio session 1/14/69) (Evans, Blackmore, Lord) – 3:09
"Lalena" (BBC radio session 6/24/69) (Leitch) – 3:33
"The Painter" (BBC radio session 6/24/69) (Evans, Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice) – 2:18

Track 4 is divided into tracks 4 & 5 on CD re-issue, resulting in the increase of the position of following tracks.

[edit] Personnel

Ritchie Blackmore - guitar
Rod Evans - lead vocals
Nick Simper - bass, backing vocals
Jon Lord - Hammond organ, keyboards, backing vocals
Ian Paice - drums

[edit] Additional personnel

Produced by Derek Lawrence
Engineered by Barry Ainsworth
Digitally remastered and restored by Peter Mew at Abbey Road Studios, London

[edit] References

[0] Deep Purple early years: Seventy Seven Minutes In Prog Rock Heaven

[1] ttp://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5x66mpm39f7o

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