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Recognising the highly important 53rd Anniversary, one of the greatest Live albums of 70s Rock Cannon gets the (inevitable) Steven Wilson treatment, and big box configuration including the original album, each of the recorded shows, all the encores, and a Blu-Ray Dolby Atmos Mix. Deep Purple never wanted to put out a live album. It was the sales of a live bootleg, and the performance of recent live albums including the Who’s Live at Leeds and the Rolling Stones’ Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out that (begrudgingly?) convinced them there might some commercial sense in it. Scheduled to tour Japan, the band were still not “hot” on the idea especially when presented with the equipment offered by the record company in Japan. Martin Birch was pulled in to engineer, upgraded equipment secured, and 2 shows at Festival Hall Osaka and 1 at Budokan Tokyo recorded for later assembly to the finished album. After the Tour closed, band interest in the album was still not high, and the compiling and mixing left to Martin Birch (with some partial assistance from Ian Paice and Roger Glover). The finished product was originally intended to be for the Japanese market … Continue reading Deep Purple – Made In Japan (Super Deluxe Edition)