BBC Sessions 1968–1970

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 studio albums chronology

Live at Montreux 2011
(2011)

BBC Sessions 1968–1970
(2011)

Copenhagen 1972
(2013)

BBC Sessions 1968–1970 is a 2011 live compilation album featuring performances by the British hard rock band Deep Purple that were 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 excet where noted.

Disc one 50:06 Mk I
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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

Disc two 48:22 Mk II
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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" (BBC Transcription Services Session – 23 September 1970)		1:35
9.	"Black Night" (BBC Transcription Services Session – 23 September 1970)		3:29
10.	"Grabsplatter" (BBC Transcription Services Session – 23 September 1970)		4:33
11.	"Into the Fire" (BBC Transcription Services Session – 23 September 1970)		3:49
12.	"Child in Time" (BBC Transcription Services Session – 23 September 1970)		10:48

† indicates previously unreleased material

Disc 1, Tracks 5, 7 and 10 first released on a reissue of The Book of Taliesyn (EMI 72435 21608 2 2, 2000)
Disc 1, Tracks 6, 11 and 12 first released on a reissue of Deep Purple (EMI 72435 21597 2 7, 2000)
Disc 1, Track 9 first released on a reissue 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 box 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

Mk I (Disc one)

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

Mk 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
2011	Germany	94

External links

BBC Sessions 1968–1970 at Amazon

Deep Purple

Ian Paice Roger Glover Ian Gillan Steve Morse Don Airey Jon Lord Ritchie Blackmore Rod Evans Nick Simper Glenn Hughes David Coverdale Tommy Bolin Joe Lynn Turner Joe Satriani

Studio albums	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?!

Live albums	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 Space Vol 1 & 2 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

Compilation albums	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 Smoke on the Water 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

Singles	"Hush" "Kentucky Woman" "River Deep – Mountain High" "Black Night" "Strange Kind of Woman" "Fireball" "Never Before" "Smoke on the Water" "Burn" "Perfect Strangers" "Knocking at Your Back Door" "Call of the Wild" "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming" "Any Fule Kno That" "Vincent Price"

Other songs	"Child in Time" "Highway Star" "Lazy" "Mandrake Root" "Maybe I'm a Leo" "Mistreated" "Soldier of Fortune" "Space Truckin'" "Speed King" "The Mule" "Vavoom: Ted the Mechanic" "When a Blind Man Cries"

Video albums	Concerto for Group and Orchestra Live in Concert 72/73 Live in California 74 Deep Purple Rises Over Japan Come Hell or High Water Bombay Calling 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 at Montreux 2006 Around the World Live History, Hits & Highlights '68–'76 Phoenix Rising Live at Montreux 2011 Live in Verona

Concert tours	Shades of Deep Purple Tour The Book of Taliesyn Tour Deep Purple European Tour In Rock World Tour Deep Purple Secret Mexican Tour Deep Purple Secret USA Tour Rapture of the Deep tour The Songs That Built Rock Tour Now What? World Tour Deep Purple World Tour 2016 The Long Goodbye Tour

Related bands	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

Related articles	Discography Members Deep Purple Tribute Funky Junction John Coletta Montreux Jazz Festival Purple Records Re-Machined: A Tribute to Deep Purple's Machine Head Rock Aid Armenia Green Bullfrog Martin Birch

Book Category

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 7/29/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.