The Purple Album: Special Gold Edition (2CD/1Blu-ray)
In 1973, it was announced that Deep Purple - at the time, one of the biggest rock bands in the world - had a new vocalist, a young unknown singer from the north of England called David Coverdale. David wrote and recorded three studio albums with Deep Purple, all of them classics; BURN, STORMBRINGER & COME TASTE THE BAND. The fiftieth anniversary of this momentous event is now celebrated with the Special Gold Edition of The PURPLE Album.
Cherry-picking the best tracks from Deep Purple’s Mark 3 and Mark 4 line-ups, all newly remixed and remastered for 2023, Whitesnake’s twelfth studio album features Reb Beach on guitar and Michael Devin on bass, joined by Joel Hoekstra on his first Whitesnake album, plus drummer Tommy Aldridge reappearing on a Whitesnake studio album for the first time since 1989’s SLIP OF THE TONGUE.
CD 1:
2023 REMIX
1. Burn
2. Lay Down, Stay Down
3. Love Child
4. Holy Man
5. The Gypsy
6. Lady Double Dealer
7. Might Just Take Your Life
8. Mistreated
9. Stormbringer
10. Sail Away (Interpolating “Elegy For Jon”)
11. You Keep On Moving (featuring The Hook City Strings)
12. Lady Luck
13. Coming Home
14. You Fool No One (Interpolating “Itchy Fingers” Dedicated In Loving Memory Of Jeff Beck)
15. Soldier Of Fortune
CD 2: 78:38
THE PURPLE TOUR “FIVE LIVE” 34:48
1. Burn
2. The Gypsy
3. Mistreated
4. You Fool No One
5. Soldier of Fortune
ALTERNATIVE MIXES
6. Holy Man (Unzipped)
7. Stormbringer (Punch In The Nuts Mix… Joel Hoekstra alt solo)
8. Love Child (Joel Hoekstra alt solo)
9. Soldier Of Fortune (featuring Joel Hoekstra & The Hook City Strings)
10. Soldier Of Fortune (featuring The Hook City Strings)
11. Soldier Of Fortune (instrumental featuring The Hook City Strings)
Demos and Audition Tapes (Previously Unreleased)
The DC Purple Audition Tape 1972
featuring The Fabulosa Brothers
12. Everybody’s Talkin’
13. Get Ready
14. Lonely Town Lonely Street
15. Dancing In The Street
16. 1974 DC Demos/Ideas For “Stormbringer” album
DISC 3 BLU-RAY
PURPLE MUSIC VIDEOS
1. Lady Double Dealer
2. Stormbringer
3. Sail Away
4. Soldier of Fortune
5. The Gypsy
6. Soldier Of Fortune (featuring Joel Hoekstra & The Hook City Strings)
7. Soldier Of Fortune (featuring The Hook City Strings)
PURPLESNAKE VIDEOS
8. Lay Down, Stay Down
9. Holy Man
10. You Keep On Moving
11. You Fool No One
LIVE CLIPS
12. Burn (Live “Atlantis” Video)
13. Burn/Stormbringer (Live In The Still Of The Night)
14. Soldier Of Fortune (Starkers In Tokyo)
THE PURPLE TOUR “FIVE LIVE”
15. Burn
16. The Gypsy
17. Mistreated
18. You Fool No One
19. Soldier of Fortune
20. The Purple Album: Behind The Scenes
21. The Purple Album: Song-By-Song