Deep Purple
Studio album by Deep Purple
Released	June, 1969 (US) November, 1969 (UK)
Recorded	January to March 1969 at De Lane Lea, London
Genre	Hard rock
Length	44:34 (Original LP) 59:26 (2000 CD edition)
Label	Harvest Records (UK) Tetragrammaton (US)
Producer	Derek Lawrence
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Deep Purple chronology
The Book of Taliesyn (1968) Deep Purple (1969) Deep Purple in Rock (1970)
Re-issue cover
Remastered

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Album Cover

Tetragrammaton ran into difficulty over the use of the Museo del Prado-owned Hieronymus Bosch painting "The Garden of Earthly Delights". The original painting is in color although it appears in monochrome here due to a printing error for the original layout and the band opted to keep it that way.^{[citation needed]} Bold text The Museo del Prado is a famous museum and art gallery located in Madrid; the capital of Spain. ... Hieronymus Bosch, (latinized, actually Jheronimus Bosch; his real name Jeroen van Aken) (c. ... The Garden of Earthly Delights is the center panel of a triptych by Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch. ... A photograph of a sign in grayscale The same photograph in black and white Monochrome comes from the two Greek words mono (μωνο, meaning one), and chroma (χρωμα, meaning surface or the color of the skin). A monochromatic object has a single color. ...

Track listing

1. "Chasing Shadows" (Jon Lord, Ian Paice) – 5:34
2. "Blind" (Lord) – 5:26
3. "Lalena" (Donovan) – 5:05
4. "Fault Line" (Ritchie Blackmore, Nick Simper, Lord, Paice) – 1:46
5. "The Painter" (Rod Evans, Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice) – 3:51
6. "Why Didn't Rosemary?" (Evans, Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice) – 5:04
7. "Bird Has Flown" (Evans, Blackmore, Lord) – 5:36
8. "April" (Blackmore, Lord) – 12:10

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Bonus tracks on the CD re-issue

9. "The Bird Has Flown" (alternate a-side version) (Evans, Blackmore, Lord) – 2:54
10. "Emmaretta" (single b-side) (Evans, Blackmore, Lord) – 3:00
11. "Emmaretta" (BBC Top Gear session 1/14/69) (Evans, Blackmore, Lord) – 3:09
12. "Lalena" (BBC radio session 6/24/69) (Donovan) – 3:33
13. "The Painter" (BBC radio session 6/24/69) (Evans, Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice) – 2:18

Personnel

• Rod Evans - lead vocals
• Ritchie Blackmore - guitar
• Nick Simper - bass, backing vocals
• Jon Lord - organ, keyboards, backing vocals
• Ian Paice - drums

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Additional personnel

• Produced by Derek Lawrence
• Engineered by Barry Ainsworth
• Digitally remastered and restored by Peter Mew at Abbey Road Studios, London