Deep Purple In Rock Discography

Mk 2. Recorded between Aug 1969 & Feb 1970 at De Lane Lea / Abbey Rd / IBC Studios.

Charts:UK 4/US 143

1 Speed King / Bloodsucker / Child In Time 2 Flight Of The Rat / Into The Fire / Living Wreck / Hard Lovin' Man
CD BONUS TRACKS: Speed King (piano vsn) / Cry Free /
Jam Stew (inst) / Flight Of The Rat (remix) / Speed King (remix) / Black Night (remix) / three minutes of between song studio chat.

VINYL EDITIONS

GREAT BRITAIN V1 : Harvest SHVL 777 : June 1970 DS
Heads on Mount Rushmore, blue sky and black lettering. Back same. Inner gatefold has lyrics on left, b/w photos plus text on right.
Printer Garrod & Lofthouse (see photo, click to enlarge).

GREAT BRITAIN V2 : EMI Fame FA 3011 : May 1982 SS Front & back as V1. Notes added to back. Fame logo, budget price.

GREAT BRITAIN V3 : EMI EJ 26 03430 : February 1985 Limited edition picture disc with art off V1. Issued in plastic pocket with poster (see photo).

GREAT BRITAIN V4 : EMI 7243 8 34019 2 5 : October 1995 DS Double LP based on 25th Anniversary CD (see below). Gatefold sleeve as V1, inner bags had CD booklet art, colour purple vinyl. 2,000 pressed.

AMERICA : Warner Brothers WS 1877 : 1970 DS
As UK, tracks added to back. Organ intro to Speed King edited off.

JAPAN V1 : Toshiba BR 80094 : 1970 DS
Very short lived edition before W. Bros. took over, some pressed in red vinyl. Ultra rare.

JAPAN V2 : Warner Brothers P 8020W : Feb 1st 1971 DS as USA

GERMANY : Harvest HÖR ZU SHZE 288 : 1970 DS
Front as UK but with white sky (see photo). Hör Zo logo top right (two different logos exist). Hör Zu is a German TV listings magazine which issued albums by mail order during the 1970s. Still available 1976.

For more LP variations from France, Holland, Belgium, USSR, China, Australia, Greece, Spain, South Africa, Israel, Mexico, Nicaragua and South Korea, see page two of
the Deep Purple In Rock discography.

Deep Purple In Rock, UK Remaster

RECOMMENDED COMPACT DISC EDITIONS

GREAT BRITAIN : EMI : JUNE 1995
25th Anniversary Edition. Album remastered. Black Night, Speed King piano version and Cry Free (from Powerhouse) added, plus three Glover remixes, and 24 page booklet.
CD tray has autographs overprinted in black (see photo).

The cd is available from the dpas online store

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SPECIAL COMPACT DISC EDITION

JAPAN : Warner Bros. WPCR1564 : April 2000
Original album in a miniature card sleeve. No extra tracks.

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