DEEP PURPLE IN CONCERT (Live 2LPs) - 12.1980 (UK): 06.1982 (US) (Harvest Records SHDW 412/lal38-64156/7. UK: CBS/Portrait Records 38050/1. US)
Side one (February 1970):
1. Speed King (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) (6’20)
2. Wring That Neck (instrumental) (Blackmore/Lord/Paice/Simper) (18’30)
Side two (February 1970):
3. Child In Time (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) (10’ 15)
4. Mandrake Root (Blackmore/Lord/Evans) (17’20) total time: 52’25
Side three (March 1972):
1. Highway Star (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) (6’29)
2. Strange Kind Of Woman (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) (8’34)
3. Lazy (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) (8’57)
4. Never Before (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) (3’48)
Side four (March 1972):
5. Space Truckin’ (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) (2Г14)
6. Lucille (A. Collins/Richard Penniman) (6’20)
total time: 60’38
Produced by Jeff Griffin (LP1) and Pete Dauncey (LP2).
Recorded live on 19th February 1970 at the BBC Studios in London, for the BBC’s Sunday Show series, and on 9th March 1972 at the Paris Theatre in London, for the BBC’s Sounds Of The Seventies series.
All pre-1992 releases contain only parts of the second gig (two tracks missing), while most releases from 1992 onwards contain complete gigs. Engineered by Tony Wilson (1970) and Adrian Revill (1972).
Cover photos were all taken between 1969 and 1973 and are from the following sources: L.F.I., Robert Ellis, Dieter Zill, Fin Costello.
Album cover design and notes by Simon Robinson.