Who Do We Think We Are
Occupation
- Vocals: Ian Gillan
- Guitar: Ritchie Blackmore
- Organ, Keyboard: Jon Lord
- Bass: Roger Glover
- Drums: Ian Paice
Studios
- July 1972 in Rome ( Italy)
- October 1972 in Frankfurt ( Germany )
Who Do We Think We Are (English for "What we believe, who we are " ) is the seventh studio album by the English hard rock band Deep Purple. As can be found in the CD booklet, the title refers to the outraged press headline " Who Do Deep Purple Think They Are ." It is in the album to the fourth and last in the classical or Mk II occupation before the re-establishment in 1984.
- 5.1 Awards
Background
1971, with the band members, despite the increasing conflicts in the band, their own record label Purple Records. The album Who Do We Think We Are was, however, published because of an existing contract, first from EMI and Warner Bros..
The album was recorded in July 1972 in Rome and in October 1972 in Frankfurt am Main, each in the Rolling Stones mobile. But while the three previous albums received good reviews and sold very well, this album could not sit anywhere at the top of the charts. It reached number 15 on the charts in the USA. On November 4, 1973, the album was awarded with the Golden Record. A remastered version of the album was released in 2000.
The ratio of the band members in the recordings was tense. They went into the studio and it was separated from the breakup of the band talk. Beginning of 1973, declared the band members unanimously Deep Purple solvent is eliminated auf.Tatsächlich the end of June following the album singer Ian Gillan and Roger Glover, who had learned that Ritchie Blackmore wanted to push him out of the group from. In their places were Glenn Hughes and the later Whitesnake frontman David Coverdale.
Woman from Tokyo
Woman from Tokyo was the hit of the album. He is one of the most known songs of the band. The piece was, as Painted Horse, recorded in Rome. The long, difficult session brought forth only those two songs. Ian Gillan commented on the text of Woman from Tokyo that it really was not a woman, but the enthusiasm and expectations of the first tour of Japan. The time loudest band in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, debuted in early fall 1972 tour of Japan. On February 16, 1973, Purple Records released the song.
Title list
All pieces were written by Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice.
Bonus Tracks (Remastered CD 2000 )
Reception
The album was rather middling reviews and was mainly positive only by the song Woman from Tokyo on. The pop music magazine said, after the release of the album, this is an " imitation ", " a listless down threshed compulsory exercise ", and continues: " hard and bone dry rolled the Purple rhythm. Density arrangements are interpreted by singer Ian Gillan almost in the fifties rock-' n'- roll style. But only rarely act delicate organ improvisations and fast guitar passages, the stomping rock machine. "
About the album www.allmusic.com writes: " Significantly inferior to his three first-class predecessors, the album reveals a used band, which decays significantly at the seams. "
Positively expressed of the Musik Express: " ' Who Do We Think We Are ' is ... by far the best album of harder than ever rocking Deep Purple Despite the increasingly common to be heard separation rumors the band on this latest and perhaps last presented. LP in an incredible dynamics. [ ... ] Deep Purple ( have) to be used to become more diversified in comparison a lot. "
Chart positions
The album and individual singles reached the following chart positions:
Album
Singles
Awards
The album received the following awards:
Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) (USA)