- rock, hard rock, blues rock, art rock
- 44 min
- 7 tracks
- EMI Electrola
Deep Purple, also referred to as Deep Purple III, is the third studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple, released in June 1969 on Tetragrammaton Records in the United States, but not until September 1969 on Harvest Records in the United Kingdom. Its release was preceded by the single "Emmaretta" and by a long tour in the UK, whose dates were interspersed between the album's recording sessions.
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Character
Spare, grave, earnest and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- PopMatters6/10 ★
- Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal7/10
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Tracks
- A1Chasing Shadows5:31
- A2Blind5:22
- A3Lalena5:02
- A4Fault Line / The Painter5:31
- B1Why Didn’t Rosemary?4:56
- B2Bird Has Flown5:32
- B3April12:01
7 tracks, 44 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Deep Purple
- Label
- EMI Electrola
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- XE
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