On October 31st, EMI/UK will be releasing "Deep Purple-The BBC Sessions 1968-1970", a 2-CD set featuring all of the surviving BBC studio sessions by the "Mark 1" & "Mark 2" Deep Purple line-ups. The set features 7 previously unreleased tracks, and also reissues all of the BBC tracks originally offered on the deleted 6-CD box set "Listen,Learn, Read On".

(There will also be a costly 2-L.P. & 2-CD + 12" x 12" booklet version, but it will not contain any exclusive material.)

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Added by Linda:

Product Description
The transition of Deep Purple from a cult UK band that had chart success stateside, to the rock giants we all know is captured in these fascinating session recordings. Although the rarity of some of the sessions means the sound quality is often less than perfect, it is the stunning performances, many live-in studio, which shine through. This was a band who could play and who could electrify the audience and the listener. Many Purple aficionados would dare to suggest that the session version of the classic 'Child In Time' surpasses that of the studio version. That is, of course, is subjective but why this set is so important to the Purple story, to the band's fans and any general rock fan.

Disc 1
1. Hush (Version One) [BBC Top Gear Session]
2. One More Rainy Day (BBC Top Gear Session)
3. Help! (BBC Top Gear Session)
4. And The Address (BBC Dave Symonds Show Session)
5. Hey Bop A Re Bop (BBC Top Gear Session)
6. Emmaretta (BBC Top Gear Session)
7. Wring That Neck (BBC Top Gear Session)
8. Brian Matthew Interviews Rod Evans (BBC Top Gear Session)
9. Hey Joe (BBC Top Gear Session)
10. It's All Over (BBC Top Gear Session)
11. The Painter (Version One) [BBC Sounds Like Tony Brandon Show Session]
12. Lalena (BBC Sounds Like Tony Brandon Show Session)
13. The Painter (Version Two) [BBC Chris Grant's Tasty Pop Sundae Session]
14. I'm So Glad (BBC Chris Grant's Tasty Pop Sundae Session)
15. Hush (Version Four) [BBC Chris Grant's Tasty Pop Sundae Session]

Disc 2
1. Ricochet (BBC Symonds On Sunday Show Session)
2. The Bird Has Flown (BBC Symonds On Sunday Show Session)
3. Speed King (BBC Stuart Henry Noise At Nine Session)
4. Jam Stew (aka John Stew) [BBC Stuart Henry Noise At Nine Session]
5. Hard Lovin' Man (BBC Mike Harding's Sounds Of The Seventies Session)
6. Bloodsucker (BBC Mike Harding's Sounds Of The Seventies Session)
7. Living Wreck (Version Two) [BBC Mike Harding's Sounds Of The Seventies Session]
8. Jon Lord Interview (BBC Transcription Services Session)
9. Black Night (BBC Transcription Services Session)
10. Grabsplatter (BBC Transcription Services Session)
11. Into The Fire (BBC Transcription Services Session)
12. Child In Time (BBC Transcription Services Session)

Amazon USA:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005KXV8XK/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005KXV8XK/?tag=imwan-21

Curious to see song list & price.

£11.99 at Amazon.co.uk

See the song line-up at http://www.Deep-Purple.net

Thanks! I have Listen, Learn... so will probably pass here.

Bump: brought all release details in-house -- see the first post.

I didn't do a side to side song check with my Listen Learn boxset but it looks like the unreleased stuff is all from the Mk 1 line up . I will pass on it . If it was unreleased Mk 2 , well then I would be all over this .

I got the info about Mark 2 & the box at the link above from Phil.

I love DP but have zero interest in this.

That's odd, because many of the BBC Mark 2 selections are embryonic versions which predate the recording of the EMI/Warner Bros. studio versions, and they have significant lyric and arrangement differences.

I don't care for the Mark I era and early versions of In Rock tracks don't interest me enough at all. Just not for me.