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Shades 1968–1998 is a 4 CD-Box-Set by the English hard rock band Deep Purple.It was released on 16 March 1999. It spans their career from 1968 to 1998. This box set contains rare edits and singles which are remastered along with album versions of their biggest hits.
Shades of Deep Purple is the debut album by the English rock band Deep Purple, released in July 1968 on Tetragrammaton in the United States and in September 1968 on Parlophone in the United Kingdom. The band, initially called Roundabout, was the idea of former Searchers drummer Chris Curtis , who recruited Jon Lord and Ritchie Blackmore before ...
Formed in early 1968 by Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Rod Evans, Ritchie Blackmore, and Nick Simper, Deep Purple released their debut album, Shades of Deep Purple, in July of that year. The band has taken on many new members over the years, and Ian Paice is the last member from the original line-up still with the band.
"Mandrake Root" is a song by Deep Purple that is featured on their debut album Shades of Deep Purple. The title is in reference to the mandrake plant, but is also the name of a pre-Purple band that Blackmore was trying to form in Germany when he got the call from Deep Purple's original management.
Deep Purple quickly recorded their first album Shades of Deep Purple, which was issued in July 1968. [4] After The Book of Taliesyn and Deep Purple , Blackmore, Lord and Paice made the decision in May 1969 to dismiss Evans and Simper, wanting to pursue a heavier direction that they deemed the pair unsuitable for.
In May 1968, the band moved into Pye Studios in London's Marble Arch to record their debut album, Shades of Deep Purple, which was released in America in July by Tetragrammaton Records, and in Britain in September by EMI Records. [26]
The Book of Taliesyn is the second studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple, recorded only three months after Shades of Deep Purple and released by Tetragrammaton Records in October 1968, just before their first US tour.
Shades of Deep Purple – 1968: 4:26: 2. "Kentucky Woman" (Edited mono single version; Neil Diamond) The Book of Taliesyn – 1968: 4:14: 3. "Black Night" Non-album single – 1970: 3:27: 4. "Speed King" (US album version) Deep Purple in Rock – 1970: 4:21: 5. "Child in Time" Deep Purple in Rock: 10:19: 6. "Strange Kind of Woman" (US album ...