BBC Sessions 1968–1970
2011 live album by Deep Purple
BBC Sessions 1968–1970 | ||||
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Live album by Deep Purple | ||||
Released | 7 Nov 2011 | |||
Recorded | 18 June 1968 – 23 September 1970 | |||
Genre | Progressive rock, psychedelic rock, hard rock, heavy metal | |||
Length | 98:28 | |||
Label | EMI | |||
Deep Purple live albums chronology | ||||
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BBC Sessions 1968–1970 is a 2011 live compilation album featuring performances by the English hard rock band Deep Purple that were recorded at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios, London, and originally broadcast on various BBC Radio shows from 1968 through 1970. BBC Sessions 1968–1970 is a two-disc set collecting all the surviving sessions in the BBC archives.
Track listing
All songs written by Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice except where noted.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Hush" (BBC Top Gear Session – 18 June 1968 †) | Joe South | 4:07 |
2. | "One More Rainy Day" (BBC Top Gear Session – 18 June 1968 †) | Lord, Evans | 2:56 |
3. | "Help!" (BBC Top Gear Session – 18 June 1968 †) | Lennon/McCartney | 5:38 |
4. | "And the Address" (BBC Dave Symonds Show Session – 25 June 1968 †) | Blackmore, Lord | 2:06 |
5. | "Hey Bop a Re Bop" (BBC Top Gear Session – 14 January 1969) | Evans, Blackmore, Lord, Paice | 3:31 |
6. | "Emmaretta" (BBC Top Gear Session – 14 January 1969) | Evans, Blackmore, Lord | 3:08 |
7. | "Wring That Neck" (BBC Top Gear Session – 14 January 1969) | Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice | 4:42 |
8. | "Brian Matthew Interviews Rod Evans" (BBC Top Gear Session – 8 January 1969) | – | 1:27 |
9. | "Hey Joe" (BBC Top Gear Session – 14 January 1969) | Billy Roberts | 4:02 |
10. | "It’s All Over" (BBC Top Gear Session – 14 January 1969) | Ben E. King, Bert Berns | 4:14 |
11. | "The Painter" (BBC Sounds Like Tony Brandon Show Session – 24 June 1969) | Evans, Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice | 2:18 |
12. | "Laléna" (BBC Sounds Like Tony Brandon Show Session – 24 June 1969) | Donovan | 3:33 |
13. | "The Painter" (BBC Chris Grant’s Tasty Pop Sundae Session – 30 June 1969) | Evans, Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice | 2:43 |
14. | "I'm So Glad" (BBC Chris Grant’s Tasty Pop Sundae Session – 30 June 1969) | Skip James | 3:12 |
15. | "Hush" (BBC Chris Grant’s Tasty Pop Sundae Session – 30 June 1969) | Joe South | 2:28 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Ricochet" (BBC Symonds on Sunday Show Session – 11 August 1969 (an early version of "Speed King")) | 3:07 | |
2. | "The Bird Has Flown" (BBC Symonds on Sunday Show Session – 11 August 1969) | Evans, Blackmore, Lord | 3:05 |
3. | "Speed King" (BBC Stuart Henry Noise at Nine Session – 31 October 1969) | 3:25 | |
4. | "Jam Stew (aka John Stew)" (BBC Stuart Henry Noise at Nine Session – 31 October 1969) | 3:56 | |
5. | "Hard Lovin' Man" (BBC Mike Harding's Sounds of the Seventies Session – 21 April 1970) | 4:13 | |
6. | "Bloodsucker" (BBC Mike Harding’s Sounds of the Seventies Session – 21 April 1970) | 3:18 | |
7. | "Living Wreck" (BBC Mike Harding’s Sounds of the Seventies Session – 21 April 1970) | 3:25 | |
8. | "Jon Lord Interview" (Session – 23 September 1970) | 1:35 | |
9. | "Black Night" (Session – 23 September 1970) | 3:29 | |
10. | "Grabsplatter" (Session – 23 September 1970) | 4:33 | |
11. | "Into the Fire" (Session – 23 September 1970) | 3:49 | |
12. | "Child in Time" (Session – 23 September 1970) | 10:48 |
- † indicates previously unreleased material
- Disc 1, Tracks 5, 7 and 10 first released on a re-issue of The Book of Taliesyn (EMI 72435 21608 2 2, 2000)
- Disc 1, Tracks 6, 11 and 12 first released on a re-issue of Deep Purple (EMI 72435 21597 2 7, 2000)
- Disc 1, Track 9 first released on a re-issue of Shades of Deep Purple (EMI 72434 98336 2 3, 2000)
- Disc 2, Tracks 1–9 and 11–12 first released on Listen, Learn, Read On boxed set (EMI 72435 40973 2 4, 2002)
- Disc 2, Track 10 first released on The Anthology (Harvest EN 26 0612 3, 1985)
Personnel
- Deep Purple
- Mark I (Disc one)
- Ritchie Blackmore – guitar
- Rod Evans – lead vocals
- Jon Lord – organ, keyboards, backing vocals
- Ian Paice – drums
- Nick Simper – bass, backing vocals
- Mark II (Disc two)
- Ritchie Blackmore – lead guitar
- Ian Gillan – vocals
- Roger Glover – bass
- Jon Lord – organ, keyboards
- Ian Paice – drums
- Digitally remastered by Peter Mew at Abbey Road Studios, London specifically for this set.
Charts
Year | Chart | Position |
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2011 | Germany | 94 |
External links
- BBC Sessions 1968–1970 at Amazon
- v
- t
- e
- Shades of Deep Purple
- The Book of Taliesyn
- Deep Purple
- Deep Purple in Rock
- Fireball
- Machine Head
- Who Do We Think We Are
- Burn
- Stormbringer
- Come Taste the Band
- Perfect Strangers
- The House of Blue Light
- Slaves and Masters
- The Battle Rages On...
- Purpendicular
- Abandon
- Bananas
- Rapture of the Deep
- Now What?!
- Infinite
- Whoosh!
- Turning to Crime
- =1
- Concerto for Group and Orchestra
- Made in Japan
- Made in Europe
- Last Concert in Japan
- Deep Purple in Concert
- Live in London
- Nobody's Perfect
- Scandinavian Nights
- In the Absence of Pink: Knebworth '85
- Gemini Suite Live
- Come Hell or High Water
- King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents: Deep Purple in Concert
- California Jamming
- Mk III: The Final Concerts
- Live at The Olympia '96
- Total Abandon: Australia '99
- In Concert with The London Symphony Orchestra
- Live at the Rotterdam Ahoy
- This Time Around: Live in Tokyo
- Live in Paris 1975
- Inglewood: Live in California
- Perks and Tit
- Live in Europe 1993
- Live at Montreux 1996
- Live in Montreux 69
- Live in Denmark 1972
- Live at Montreux 2006: They All Came Down to Montreux
- Live at Montreux 2011
- Phoenix Rising
- Live in Verona
- Purple Passages
- Mark I & II
- 24 Carat Purple
- Powerhouse
- The Deep Purple Singles A's and B's
- When We Rock, We Rock, and When We Roll, We Roll
- The Mark II Purple Singles
- Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple
- The Anthology
- Knocking at Your Back Door: The Best of Deep Purple in the 80's
- Smoke on the Water: The Best Of
- 30: Very Best of Deep Purple
- Shades 1968–1998
- The Very Best of Deep Purple
- Days May Come and Days May Go
- Smoke on the Water & Other Hits
- The Soundboard Series
- Listen, Learn, Read On
- Winning Combinations: Deep Purple and Rainbow
- The Early Years
- The Platinum Collection
- BBC Sessions 1968–1970
- "Hush"
- "Kentucky Woman"
- "River Deep – Mountain High"
- "Hallelujah"
- "Black Night"
- "Strange Kind of Woman"
- "Fireball"
- "Never Before"
- "Highway Star"
- "Smoke on the Water"
- "Woman from Tokyo"
- "Burn"
- "Perfect Strangers"
- "Knocking at Your Back Door"
- "Call of the Wild"
- "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming"
- "Vincent Price"
- "Mandrake Root"
- "Child in Time"
- "The Mule"
- "Space Truckin'"
- "Maybe I'm a Leo"
- "When a Blind Man Cries"
- "Mistreated"
- "Soldier of Fortune"
- "Vavoom: Ted the Mechanic"
- Concerto for Group and Orchestra
- Live in California 74
- Deep Purple Rises Over Japan
- Come Hell or High Water
- Live at Montreux 1996
- Total Abandon: Australia '99
- In Concert with The London Symphony Orchestra
- Classic Albums: Deep Purple – The Making of Machine Head
- Live in Concert 72/73
- Live at Montreux 2006
- Around the World Live
- History, Hits & Highlights '68–'76
- Phoenix Rising
- Live at Montreux 2011
- Live in Verona
- The Artwoods
- The Outlaws
- The Flower Pot Men
- Episode Six
- Trapeze
- Zephyr
- James Gang
- Dixie Dregs
- Captain Beyond
- Warhorse
- Ian Gillan Band
- Gillan
- Rainbow
- Blackmore's Night
- Whitesnake
- Coverdale–Page
- Paice Ashton Lord
- Black Sabbath
- Gary Moore
- Yngwie Malmsteen
- Hughes Turner Project
- Living Loud
- WhoCares
- Black Country Communion
- Discography
- Members
- Purple Records
- Funky Junction
- Deep Purple Tribute
- Re-Machined: A Tribute to Deep Purple's Machine Head
- The Purple Album
- Rock Aid Armenia
- Green Bullfrog
- Bogus Deep Purple
- Category