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Deep Purple Very Best Of  [album]

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“One of the pioneers of
  heavy metal and hard
  rock, Deep Purple just
  keep on rocking into the
  21st Century. And now
  the band is back again —
  with a fantastic re-released
  album, The Very Best Of
  Deep Purple...”
 
SOMETIMES IT'S JUST ENOUGH to say the name of a band and you just know it's going to be special. Deep Purple is part of music history yet somehow manages to inject that certain something that appeals to both die-hard fans and new audiences. This is rock testosterone — in The Guinness Book of World Records, Deep Purple has been listed as the world's loudest band and over one hundred million of their albums have been sold worldwide.

EMI re-released the fantastic The Very Best Of Deep Purple on 24 March (2008) with the superb Hush as the opening track. The band's first hit, from the Shades Of Deep Purple album, Hush is a fantastic track, beginning with a really spooky sound. In strong demand since
its striking use in the current Jaguar television advertisement — and proving that great music never goes out of fashion! — the track was released as a digital download single on 24 March (2008).



Unquestionably among the pioneers of heavy metal and hard rock, Deep Purple has never put a foot wrong. The Very Best Of Deep Purple stands as a testament to the band's weighty heritage. Highlights include the racy and timeless Hush; all-time favourite Black Night; Speed King — a deeply-dipping rock tribute; the magical and interesting Child In Time (over ten minutes long in its original form); the unforgettable Strange Kind Of Woman; Highway Star; Burn and, of course, the immortal Smoke On The Water, the archetypal rock guitar riff that was once banned from guitar shops. The haunting When A Blind Man Cries is terrific and sounds very bluesy and we also liked the quirky Ted The Mechanic and Any Fule Kno That. And the powerful Stormbringer... all the tracks are highlights in their own right! I've included the original '74 Stormbringer album cover from my collection below as a matter of historical interest.

Real air-guitar stuff, this. Deep Purple — giving it their very best.

• The Very Best Of Deep Purple album from 1998 is available now on
CD (Catalogue No: 213 1212) and the single Hush is available as
a digital download. Both were released by EMI on 24 March (2008).

The Very Best Of Deep Purple Tracklisting
1 Hush (1998 Digital Remaster) | 2 Black Night (Single Version: 1995 Digital Remaster) | 3 Speed King (Single Version) | 4 Child In Time (Single Edit) | 5 Strange Kind Of Woman | 6 Fireball | 7 Demon's Eye | 8 Smoke On The Water (1997 Digital Remaster) | 9 Highway Star
(1997 Remix) | 10 When A Blind Man Cries (1997 Remix) | 11 Never Before | 12 Woman From Tokyo (Single Edit) | 13 Burn (Single Edit) | 14 Stormbringer | 15 You Keep On Moving | 16 Perfect Strangers (Single Version) | 17 Ted The Mechanic | 18 Any Fule Kno That.

"Sometimes it's just enough to say the name of a band and you just know it's going to be special… Deep Purple — giving it their very best" — MotorBar

"There were three bands: Led Zepplin, Black Sabbath and, of course, Deep Purple; those three bands were the coolest (or un-coolest, depending on the decade you were listening to them) for you, your older brother or maybe even your father to name-drop" — Hugh Gilmour



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