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Deep ?urp!e – Now What?! / Ear Music Audio CD 2013 / 0208486ERE
UPC 4029759084860
Product Details:
Now What?! is the 19th studio album by English rock band Deep Purple. It was released on 26 April 2013 and produced by Bob Ezrin. A dedicated official web site was also created by the band to post updates about the album. It was the band's first studio album in over seven years, as Deep Purple's previous studio album, Rapture of the Deep, was released in late 2005.
On 26 February 2013, the album's title was announced. Additionally, a new single featuring "Hell to Pay" and "All the Time in the World" was released in both CD and vinyl formats on 29 March 2013. On May 6, 2013, the band confirmed that a new single "Vincent Price" would be released on 7 June as download, CD single and 7" transparent vinyl. The single would also include the previously unreleased song "First Sign of Madness", two tracks from the now unavailable Rapture of the Deep limited edition and the track's video-clip.
The songs "Uncommon Man" and "Above and Beyond", which includes the lyrics "Souls having touched are forever entwined", are dedicated to founding member Jon Lord, who died in July 2012. "Uncommon Man" is partly inspired by the classical composition "Fanfare for the Common Man", and features a synthesizer-generated fanfare theme composed by Don Airey.
Eight years after the release of Rapture Of The Deep, following many rumours later revealed to be unfounded, Deep Purple, one of the most important and influential British rock bands of all time, have confirmed the release of an album completely made of new studio material. After various songwriting sessions in Europe, the band recorded and mixed the album in Nashville with producer Bob Ezrin (in his impressive hit record: Pink Floyd's The Wall, Alice Cooper and many others). The album is rumoured to be the perfect match from the original spirit of 70s Purple, and a fresh and modern production. Ian Gillan has recently revealed a few working titles of songs that might appear on the album: “Out Of Hands”, “Uncommon Man” and “Hell to Pay”.
Tracklist:
| 1 | A Simple Song | 4:39 |
| 2 | Weirdistan
Musician [Additional], Keyboards [Additional] – David Hamilton (2) |
4:11 |
| 3 | Out Of Hand | 6:10 |
| 4 | Hell To Pay
Musician [Additional], Vocals [Gang] – Students Of Nimbus School Of Recording Arts |
5:11 |
| 5 | Bodyline
Musician [Additional], Percussion – Eric Darken |
4:26 |
| 6 | Above And Beyond
Musician [Additional], Keyboards [Additional] – David Hamilton (2) |
5:30 |
| 7 | Blood From A Stone | 5:18 |
| 8 | Uncommon Man
Musician [Additional], Keyboards [Additional] – David Hamilton (2) |
6:59 |
| 9 | Après Vous | 5:26 |
| 10 | All The Time In The World
Musician [Additional], Acoustic Guitar – Jason Roller, Musician [Additional], Percussion – Eric Darken, Musician [Additional], Steel Guitar – Mike Johnson (4) |
4:21 |
| 11 |
Vincent Price
Musician [Additional], Steel Guitar – Mike Johnson (4) |
4:46 |
About the Band:
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. The band is considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock although their musical approach changed over the years. Originally formed as a psychedelic rock and progressive rock band, they shifted to a heavier sound with their 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock. Deep Purple, together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, have been referred to as the "unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal in the early to mid-seventies". They were listed in the 1975 Guinness Book of World Records as "the globe's loudest band" for a 1972 concert at London's Rainbow Theatre and have sold over 100 million copies of their albums worldwide.
Deep Purple have had several line-up changes and an eight-year hiatus (1976–1984). The 1968–1976 line-ups are commonly labelled Mark I, II, III and IV. Their second and most commercially successful line-up consisted of Ian Gillan (vocals), Jon Lord (keyboards), Roger Glover (bass), Ian Paice (drums), and Ritchie Blackmore (guitar). This line-up was active from 1969 to 1973 and was revived from 1984 to 1989 and again from 1992 to 1993. The band achieved more modest success in the intervening periods between 1968 and 1969 with the line-up including Rod Evans (lead vocals) and Nick Simper (bass, backing vocals), between 1974 and 1976 with the line-up including David Coverdale (lead vocals) and Glenn Hughes (bass, vocals) (and Tommy Bolin replacing Blackmore in 1975), and between 1989 and 1992 with the line-up including Joe Lynn Turner (vocals). The band's line-up (currently including Ian Gillan, and guitarist Steve Morse from 1994) has been much more stable in recent years, although keyboardist Jon Lord's retirement from the band in 2002 (being succeeded by Don Airey) left Ian Paice as the only original Deep Purple member still in the band.
Deep Purple were ranked number 22 on VH1's Greatest Artists of Hard Rock programme, and a poll on radio station Planet Rock ranked them 5th among the "most influential bands ever". The band received the Legend Award at the 2008 World Music Awards. Deep Purple (specifically Blackmore, Lord, Paice, Gillan, Glover, Coverdale, Evans, and Hughes) were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016.
More Details:
- Bass Guitar – Roger Glover
- Booking [Agency] – The Agency
- Booking [Agent] – Neil Warnock
- Drums – Ian Paice
- Engineer [Assistant] – Li Xiao Le
- Engineer [Rainbow Recorders] – Mike Airey, Nathan Sage, Rob Harris (5)
- Engineer [Tracking Room Assistant] – Jarad Clement, Zach Allan
- Engineer, Mixed By – Justin Cortelyou
- Guitar – Steve Morse
- Keyboards – Don Airey
- Layout, Artwork – Antje Warnecke
- Management [Accountant] – Mark Zuckerman
- Management [Business Manager] – Barbara Fucigna, Thames Talent, Ltd.
- Management [Personal Manager] – Bruce Payne, Thames Talent, Ltd.
- Mastered By – Greg Calbi
- Musician [Additional], Backing Vocals, Percussion – Bob Ezrin
- Photography By – Jim Rakete
- Producer, Mixed By – Bob Ezrin
- Production Manager – Lothar Strunk
- Technician, Drums – Pauly Simmons
- Technician, Guitar – Thomas "Tommy" Alderson
- Technician, Keyboards [Backline] – Mike Airey
- Tour Manager – Ian Digance
- Vocals [Singer] – Ian Gillan
- Written-By – Bob Ezrin, Don Airey, Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Roger Glover, Steve Morse
