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Deep Purple

Singles and E.P. Anthology ’68 – ’80 is the most comprehensive collection yet of the band’s singles and E.P.s, including a variety of rarities such as non-album singles, B sides, alternate takes, live versions, plus a selection of a’s and b’s released in other countries, including the US, Japan and Germany.

Spanning all of the different Deep Purple line-ups, this collection begins with 1968′s “Hush”/”One More Rainy Day”, which was a huge US debut hit, and continues chronologically to the band’s final British single “You Keep On Moving” / “Love Child” (both off their last studio album, 1975′s Come Taste The Band), which was issued in the UK in March ’76. Included in the collection are many versions of tracks that have never before appeared on CD, and are included on that format here for the first time.

Following the split there was still enormous interest in Deep Purple’s catalogue, which was kept alive through a number of reissues and archive releases from EMI. The first of these in the UK was a 7″ Maxi Single (April ’77), which included the live version of “Child In Time” from Made In Japan. So successful was this that a second EP was issued later the same year, titled New Live & Rare. This had the previously unreleased studio out-take “Painted Horse”, from the Who Do We Think We Are sessions. This concept was reprised a year later on Volume 2, an EP which included an edited version of “Mistreated” from the Made In Europe live LP. The final EP in this series, Volume 3 (Oct 1980), included rarities: three previously unreleased tracks, including “The Bird Has Flown”, a rare session performance from the Mk 2 line-up for the BBC, plus “Grabsplatter“, an out-take from the In Rock album. It was the last 7″ release from the 1968 – ’76 era in the UK and, except for a set of 12″ collectors EPs in 1985, the band’s EMI singles story was over.

Singles and E.P. Anthology 1968 – 1980 comes in a 2-CD pack with comprehensive sleevenotes by Deep Purple aficionado Simon Robinson, and rare single sleeves illustrated throughout the booklet.

Track listing

Disc 1

1. Hush (1998 Digital Remaster)
2. One More Rainy Day (2000 Digital Remaster)
3. Kentucky Woman (1998 Digital Remaster)
4. Wring That Neck (1998 Digital Remaster)
5. Emmaretta (1998 Digital Remaster)
6. Bird Has Flown (2000 Digital Remaster)
7. Help (French A-Side) (2010 Digital Remaster)
8. Hallelujah (2002 Digital Remaster)
9. April (Part 1) (2002 Digital Remaster)
10. Speed King (Piano Version)
11. Black Night (Single Version) (2002 Digital Remaster)
12. Living Wreck (1995 Digital Remaster)
13. Strange Kind Of Woman (2002 Digital Remaster)
14. I’m Alone (2002 Digital Remaster)
15. Fireball (2002 Digital Remaster)
16. Demon’s Eye (2002 Digital Remaster)
17. Never Before (2002 Digital Remaster)
18. When A Blind Man Cries (2002 Digital Remaster)
19. Lazy (Japanese B-Side) (2010 Digital Remaster)

Disc 2

1. Smoke On The Water (Studio – US A-Side Edit) (2010 Digital Remaster)
2. Smoke On The Water (Live – US B-Side Edit) (2010 Digital Remaster)
3. Woman From Tokyo (Single Edit) (2002 Digital Remaster)
4. Black Night (Live) (2002 Digital Remaster)
5. Might Just Take Your Life (Single Edit) (2002 Digital Remaster)
6. Coronarias Redig (2002 Digital Remaster)
7. Burn (Studio Edit) (US/Japan 45) (2010 Digital Remaster)
8. Stormbringer (Italian A-Side) (2010 Digital Remaster)
9. You Keep On Moving (2002 Digital Remaster)
10. Love Child (2002 Digital Remaster)
11. Gettin’ Tighter (US A-Side/Italian B-Side) (2010 Digital Remaster)
12. Child In Time (Live) (2010 Digital Remaster)
13. Painted Horse (2010 Digital Remaster)
14. Mistreated (Live Edit) (2010 Digital Remaster)
15. The Bird Has Flown (BBC 1969)
16. Grabsplatter (BBC 1970)