Deep Purple in Rock

Occupation

Studios

Deep Purple in Rock, also known as In Rock, is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple, which was released in September 1970. It was the first album in the "classic" Mk II occupation.

Music style

Deep Purple's early works ranged from psychedelic rock, progressive rock to cover versions of the Beatles and Ike & Tina Turner. After the performance of " Concerto for Group and Orchestra " especially Ritchie Blackmore was afraid of a loss of image of the band. So Deep Purple decided to embark on a new musical path. The work combines the become typical for the band's sound: Blackmore's distinctive guitar riffs, Lords classic cadences and figures, Gillan's ecstatic song, and the openly expressed musical competition between lords and organ Blackmore's guitar.

Title list

All songs were written by Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice.

Bonus Tracks ( 25th Anniversary Edition )

1995 was the release of In Rock album digitally remastered and together with the single Black Night, the previously unknown Instrumental Jam Stew and new versions of Speed ​​King, Cry Free, Flight of the Rat and Black Night re-released on the occasion of the 25th anniversary. Between the bonus tracks are short " studio chat " interspersed, providing an insight behind the scenes studio.

Reception

The album was a breakthrough in Europe and managed to place 4 in the UK charts and # 1 in Germany, where it stayed for 12 weeks. The subsequent in -rock world tour lasted 15 months and was a great success for the band.

In the musical development, it is often considered one of the first heavy metal albums. The German magazine Rock Hard, for example, awarded a full ten points and put it in 2007 at number 60 of her best list of 500 rock and metal albums. In the same magazine the following Judgment was by Matthias Breusch summarized: "The first regular studio album of the Mark II line-up with Ian Gillan and Roger Glover proved to be a merciless, bloody revolution, optical adequately supplemented by the " redesign "of the American hero Mount Mount Rushmore. After In Rock nothing was as before. The Beach Boys and the flower children were able to pack up. Even Jon Lord's Hammond organ never sounded evil and crunchy. Here dominate bleak trimmed riff monsters like Speed ​​King, Flight of the Rat, Into the Fire, Blood Sucker, Hard Lovin 'Man or Living Wreck ( a rude Gillan tribute to leached groupies ... ). And at the top makes the spherical Child - in-time Urversion whose dramatic conversion would even classic metal Ludwig van Beethoven applauded standing. " Back in 2000, the Q Magazine album number 78 its list of the 100 Greatest British albums of all time.

Trivia

  • Although Speed ​​King was regularly played as an encore at the time, was from this album only to find Child in Time on the published two years later live album Made in Japan.
  • The album cover shows the band as stone sculptures, inspired by Mount Rushmore, as the album title also in English means as much as Deep Purple in rock.
  • Jon Lord used both the Leslie speaker as well as a Marshall amplifier for his Hammond organ, therefore the organ sound also varies considerably in individual songs. (Example: Living Wreck - Leslie Speaker, Hard Lovin ' Man - Marshall amplifier).
  • Ritchie Blackmore used a Gibson ES-335 guitar for the song Child in Time instead of the Fender Stratocaster commonly used. The album is, together with Machine Head to his favorite albums.
  • In some countries, the album was released as Black Night, a single that was created during recording In Rock Deep Purple.
  • On the Japan version of the vinyl LP, the introductory Gitarrencrescendo missing the beginning of " Speed ​​King ".
  • Although it was the first studio album by the Mk II line-up, joined Deep Purple in 1969 in this constellation at London's Royal Albert Hall to fast forward the work of the former keyboardist Jon Lord, together with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Arnold playing audience.
  • The song Bloodsucker was published again under the slightly altered title Bludsucker on the album Abandon 1998 in a new recording.
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