Deep Purple is the third studio album by English hard rock band Deep Purple, released in 1969 on Harvest Records in the United Kingdom and on Tetragrammaton in the US. It was to be the last album with the original lineup.
The songs have a psychedelic rock particularly in the Seven Track "Bird has Flown" and progressive rock feel that verges on classical music, particularly in the long introductory sequence of the 12-minute final track "April", wh...
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Deep Purple is the third studio album by English hard rock band Deep Purple, released in 1969 on Harvest Records in the United Kingdom and on Tetragrammaton in the US. It was to be the last album with the original lineup.
The songs have a psychedelic rock particularly in the Seven Track "Bird has Flown" and progressive rock feel that verges on classical music, particularly in the long introductory sequence of the 12-minute final track "April", which is thus far Deep Purple's longest studio recording. All tracks on the album are band originals except for "Lalena", which is a cover of a Donovan song.
Tetragrammaton ran into difficulty over the use of the Museo del Prado-owned Hieronymus Bosch painting "The Garden of Earthly Delights" which was incorrectly perceived as being anti-religious in the US and thus rejected or poorly stocked by many record shops. The original painting is in colour although it appears in monochrome here due to a printing error for the original layout and the...
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