String arrangements on “Anthem” by Jon Lord.
All tracks digitally remastered and restored by Peter Mew at Abbey Road Studios, London.
Project co-ordination and package design for DEEP PURPLE (Overseas) Ltd.: Simon Robinson at Darker Than Blue Ltd.
Project co-ordination for EMI: Nigel Reeve.
Photographs and memorabilia: DEEP PURPLE Appreciation Society archives. Sleeve notes by Simon Robinson.
Tracks 8-12 - previously unissued.
DEEP PURPLE (CDt - 07.02.2000 (EMI Records 7243 5 21597 2 7. UK)
1. Chasing Shadows (Lord/Paice) (5’34)
2. Blind (Lord) (5’26)
3. Lalena (Leitch) (5’05)
4. Fault Line (instrumental) (Blackmore/Simper/Lord/Paice) (1’46)
5. The Painter (Blackmore/Evans/Lord/Paice) (3’51)
6. Why Didn’t Rosemary (Lord/Evans/Simper/Blackmore) (5’04)
7. Bird Has Flown (Lord/Evans/Blackmore) (5’36)
8. April (Blackmore/Lord) (12’10)
+Bonus tracks:
9. The Bird Has Flown (alternate А-side version) (Lord/Evans/ Blackmore) (2’54)
10. Emmaretta (studio B-side) (Lord/Evans/Blackmore) (3’00)
11. Emmaretta (BBC Top Gear session 14.01.1969) (Lord/Evans/ Blackmore) (3’09)
12. Lalena (BBC radio session 24.06.1969) (Leitch) (3’33)
13. The Painter (BBC radio session 24.06.1969) (Blackmore/Simper/ Lord/Paice) (2’18)
total time: 59’26
Tracks 1-10 produced by Derek Lawrence for Edwards Coletta Ltd. Engineered by Barry Ainsworth.
Tracks 1-8 string and woodwind section composed by Jon Lord. Original album devised and arranged by DEEP PURPLE.
All tracks digitally remastered and restored by Peter Mew at Abbey Road Studios, London.
Project co-ordination and package design for DEEP PURPLE (Overseas) Ltd.: Simon Robinson at Darker Than Blue Ltd.
Project co-ordination for EMI: Nigel Reeve.
Photographs and memorabilia: DEEP PURPLE Appreciation Society archives.
Sleeve notes by Simon Robinson.
Tracks 11-13 - previously unissued.
THE ORIGINAL DEEP PURPLE COLLECTION (3CDs Box Setl -09.2000 (EMI Records 5 28344 2. UK)