Deep Purple and UMG Announce Classic Purple Vinyl Reissues
DEEP PURPLE AND UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP ANNOUNCE A LIMITED-EDITION COLLECTION OF CLASSIC ALBUMS ON PURPLE VINYL
Released on Friday 7thSeptember 2018
London – 23 July, 2018 – Today, Deep Purple and Universal Music Group announce a very special limited edition collection of reissues of classic Deep Purple albums from 1972-77. Studio albums Machine Head [1972], Who Do We Think We Are? [1973], Burn [1974], Stormbringer [1974]&Come Taste the Band [1975]receive brand new reissue treatment, aswell as historic live packages Made in Japan [1972], Made in Europe [1976]&Last Concert in Japan [1977].
All albums have been cut from new digital transfers of the original master tapes at Abbey Road Studios, cut to heavyweight 180-gram purple vinyl. Artwork has been faithfully replicated to match the original pressings in conjunction with the band. All vinyl albums also come with download codes and is next in a line-up of classic Deep Purple reissues coming from Universal Music.
Pre-order an exclusive bundle of all 8-albums here: https://DeepPurple.lnk.to/ReissueBundle
Pre-order the albums individually here: https://DeepPurple.lnk.to/Reissues
The band are currently on ‘The Long Goodbye Tour’ of the world.
Ian Paice of Deep Purple said;
“These albums were recorded in the “analogue age”, that is before digital CD’s. We went from recording tape to master cutting room to pressing plant, all of these mechanical processes, and its right that the listener should have the choice to listen to them via another mechanical process. By placing a needle on an “album” on a turntable.”
All albums will be released on September 7th2018. The albums are;
Machine Head- Deep Purple’s sixth studio album released in 1972, Machine Head is regarded as one of the cornerstones of heavy metal, it contains the classics ‘Smoke on the Water’and ‘Highway Star’, Ozzy Osbourne has sited this album as one of the greatest of all time.
SIDE ONE
Highway Star
Maybe I’m A Leo
Pictures of Home
Never Before
SIDE TWO
Smoke on The Water
Lazy
Space Truckin’
Who Do We Think We Are? – The last album (until 1984) released with the classic Mk2 line up. It racked up massive sales at the time and contains the classic ‘Woman from Tokyo’ which is still performed live to this day.
SIDE ONE
Woman from Tokyo
Mary Long
Super Trouper
Smooth Dancer
SIDE TWO
Rat Bat Blue
Place in Line
Our Lady
Burn – The band’s first album with now heavy Rock legends, Vocalist, David Coverdale and bassist, Vocalist Glenn Hughes is seen as a rock classic and contains Fan favorites ‘Burn’and ‘Might Just Take Your Life’
SIDE ONE
Burn
Might Just Take Your Life
Lay Down, Stay Down
Sail Away
SIDE TWO
You Fool No One
What’s Goin’ On Here
Mistreated
“A” 200
Stormbringer – The follow up to Burn and released in the same year (1974) was the last to feature Ritchie Blackmore (until 1984) still packs a punch with such songs as the title track ‘Stormbringer’and ‘Lay Down Stay Down’.
SIDE ONE
Stormbringer
Love Don’t Mean A Thing
Holy Man
Hold On
SIDE TWO
Lady Double Dealer
You Can’t Do It Right (With the One You Love)
High Ball Shooter
The Gypsy
Soldier of Fortune
Come Taste the Band – Featuring new guitarist Tommy Bolin, Come Taste the Band is seen as a fan favorite who rightly praise Bolin’s guitar work on such tracks as ‘Getting’ Tighter’ and ‘You Keep on Moving’.
SIDE ONE
Comin’ Home
Lady Luck
Gettin’ Tighter
Dealer
I Need Love
SIDE TWO
Drifter
Love Child
This Time Around / Owed To ‘G’ (Instrumental)
You Keep on Moving
Made in Japan – Seen by many as one of the greatest live albums of all time, Made in Japan sees the band in full force over consecutive nights in Osaka and Tokyo it covers all the bands classic tracks including ‘Lazy’ and the epic ‘Space Truckin’’
SIDE ONE
Highway Star
Child in Time
SIDE TWO
Smoke on The Water
The Mule (Drum Solo)
SIDE THREE
Strange Kind of Woman
Lazy
SIDE FOUR
Space Truckin’
Made in Europe – Recorded over three nights in different locations over Europe (Paris / Graz and Saarbrücken) Made in Europe was the final offering by the Coverdale fronted version of Deep Purple, though only having 5 tracks it finds the band in top form and is a great epitaph to the Mk3 version.
SIDE ONE
Burn
Mistreated (Interpolating Rock Me Baby)
Lady Double Dealer
SIDE TWO
You Fool No One
Stormbringer
Last Concert in Japan – Recorded at the last show by the Mk4 line up in Tokyo, this album is a fine document of the band at the time and contains what is seen as the definitive version of ‘Wild Dogs’(a fine tribute to the late Tommy Bolin).
SIDE ONE
Burn
Love Child
You Keep on Moving
Wild Dogs
SIDE TWO
Lady Luck
Smoke on The Water
Soldier of Fortune
Woman from Tokyo
Highway Star