Made in Europe

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  • Artist: Deep Purple
  • Rating: StarStarStar
  • Release Date: 1976
  • Total Time: 45:47
  • Type: Live
  • Genre: Rock

Review

This live recording, made in 1975, comes from Ritchie Blackmore's last three concerts with the band before leaving to form Rainbow. It features Deep Purple Mark III, with David Coverdale on vocals and Glenn Hughes on bass and vocals. Coverdale is a convincing hard rock singer, though he lacks the winning quirkiness of Ian Gillan, while Hughes is a busier and more up-front player than Roger Glover. While "Burn" and "Mistreated" are worthy successors to previous Deep Purple tunes, the remaining material is weaker, and overall, this stuff is definitely a couple of notches below the glory days of Made in Japan. But Blackmore, for his swan song, still manages to inject a good deal of excitement, and his invention and fire raise the proceedings up somewhat. ~ Stephen Raiteri, Rovi

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Made in Europe
Live album by Deep Purple
Released October 1976
Recorded 4–7 April 1975
in Graz, Austria,
Saarbrücken, Germany
and Paris, France
Genre Hard rock, heavy metal
Length 45:47
Label EMI/Purple (UK)
Warner Bros. (US)
Producer Deep Purple & Martin Birch.
Deep Purple chronology
Made in Japan
(1972)
Made in Europe
(1976)
Last Concert in Japan
(1977)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 2.5/5 stars[1]

Made in Europe is a live album released by Deep Purple, recorded on the final dates in 1975 on which Ritchie Blackmore was a member of Deep Purple. It was released in 1976 after the group broke up.

Made in Europe features songs recorded live 4 April in Graz, Austria, 5 April in Saarbrücken, Germany, and 7 April 1975 in Paris, France with the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio. According to the liner notes included on Mk III: The Final Concerts, though, the material featured on Made in Europe came, for the most part, from the Saarbrücken show. Additionally, this performance is said to have experienced extensive studio editing and/or overdubbing of crowd noise and applause. Certainly there is a tape-loop of applause, given away by a whistling fan.

The songs featured on the album are from Deep Purple's Burn and Stormbringer albums.

In 1990, the album was remastered and re-released in the US by Metal Blade Records with distribution by Warner Bros.

This record, which had been out of print in the US, was re-released by Friday Music label on July 31, 2007 (along with Stormbringer and Come Taste the Band). While the label's website claims that the album has been digitally remastered, it is unclear which tapes were used as a source for this release.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Ritchie Blackmore and David Coverdale except where noted.

Side one

  1. "Burn" (Blackmore, Coverdale, Glenn Hughes, Jon Lord, Ian Paice) – 7:32
  2. "Mistreated" (interpolating "Rock Me Baby") – 11:32
  3. "Lady Double Dealer" – 4:15

Side two

  1. "You Fool No One" (Blackmore, Coverdale, Hughes, Lord, Paice) – 16:42
  2. "Stormbringer" – 5:38

Personnel

Additional Personnel

  • Produced by Deep Purple and Martin Birch
  • Engineered by Mick Mckenna, Tapani and Martin Birch
  • Mixed by Ian Paice and Martin Birch

References

  1. ^ Raiteri, Stephen. Made in Europe at Allmusic



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