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BURN Ritchie Blackmore / David Coverdale / Glenn Hughes / Jon Lord / Ian Paice The sky is red, I don t understand, Past midnight, I still see the land.
People are saying, the woman is damned, She makes you burn, with a wave of her hand.
The city s a-blaze, the town s on fire.
The woman s flames are reaching higher.
We were fools, we called her Liar.
All I hear is.....
Burn I didn t believe she was devil s sperm.
She said, Curse you all, you ll never learn When I leave there s no return.
The people laughed till she said....
Burn Warning came, no one cared.
Earth was shaking, we stood and stared, When it came, no one was spared.
Still I hear......
Burn You know we had no time, We could not even try, You know we had no time.
You know we had no time, We could not even try, You know we had no time.
The sky is red, I don t understand, Past midnight, I still see the land.
People are saying, the woman is damned, She makes you burn, with a wave of her hand.
Warning came, no one cared, Earth was shaking, we stood and stared, When it came no one was spared.
Still I hear.....
Burn DEEP PURPLE: Burn LP, FIRST/ORIGINAL UK PRESSING, ISSUED 15th FEBRUARY, 1974.
A major error happened in February 1974 that affected Burn and one other completely different EMI related album, I suspect the same individual printer working for Garrod Lofthouse was responsible.
I cannot possibly detail it all here, it belongs in the main section of the description, basically, some of the first pressings had mistakenly used labels with a rim text discontinued nearly a year earlier.
I am amazed nobody has noticed or commented about the glaring error, but state it as if it should be there So after this, get ready for the Ultra Rare claims, they are NOT ultra rare because so many copies exist with labels from a different time zone.
If noticed before being fixed to the records, they would have been...
burnt.
In an attempt to place a perspective on this, I am naming this record as a first/original pressing because of the labels only being on some of the very earliest copies made in the massive manufacturing for an album that charted at No.3 in Britain.
Whatever I write will be taken and distorted or argued with, I will not enter time consuming email discussions though, just present a fantastic Deep Purple LP in remarkable condition, with solid facts.
EMI/PURPLE RECORDS LABEL: TPS 3505 .
MAITRIX: PS 3505 A - 2 / PS 3505 B - 1U.
EMI began with the maitrix ending 1U per side on every album, a very first pressing had both sides ending with 1U, then the individual sides rose with every successive pressing batch.
Then directly following that, this record s, A - 2 with B - 1U remaining unchanged.
SIDE 2 s RUN-OUT GROOVES HAVE THE Pecko LOGO OF SOUND ENGINEER SUPREME, GEORGE PECKHAM.
EMI STAMPING CODES: GPG 2 4 / MT 2 As I write every week, EMI never made mothers in double figures, even 7, 8 or 9 are rarely found, the first digit was always the one intended or it was crossed out, 4 was obviously a mistake because 24 mothers is too silly to contemplate.
Plus a very clear 2 on Side 2 balances out, falling in line with the maitrix and made before the 15th February release date, a first pressing or original is correct for any reason.
ORIGINAL EMI /PURPLE RECORDS INNER SLEEVE, WITH Care Of Your Records, UNUSED AND UNSPLIT WITH ONLY A RECORD IMPRESSION AND MINIMAL NATURAL AGEING, IN NEAR MINT CONDITION.
FIRST ISSUE MATT, LIGHTLY TEXTURED COVER COVER PRINTED BY Garrod Lofthouse, STILL WITH THE THIN TOP SURFACE SHEEN.
FAIRLY THIN CARDOARD TYPICAL OF THIS ERA, THEY GENERALLY WORE TERRIBLY WITH RING WEAR REMOVING A GREAT DEAL OF THE ARTWORK ON THE FRONT AND BACK.
UNUSED AND PERFECTLY STORED THERE IS NO RING WEAR AND THE COLOURS ARE COMPLETELY UNFADED AND VIVIDLY BRIGHT.
THE THIN COVER HAD TO DEVELOP AN IMPRESSION, THE FRONT IS SURPRISINGLY GENTLE AND THE BACK MORE PRONOUNCED.
NO RUBBING TO THE ARTWORK AND NO ACTUAL WEAR TO DETAIL REALLY SAYS IT ALL AND I FIND IT ABSURD TO EXPECT ANYTHING ELSE THAN A RECORD IMPRESSION AFTER 39 YEARS, PLUS A FEW SMALL RELATED EDGE LINES.
MOSTLY NEXT TO AND OVER THE SPINE, WHICH HAS A FEW RIPPLES BUT PERFECTLY CLEAR TITLES.
ALL THE EDGES, CORNERS AND OPENING SIDES ARE AS CLOSE TO PERFECT AS THIS COVER POSSIBLY GETS.
VERY IMPORTANT TO THE MENTIONED MISTAKEN LABELS ON SOME FIRST ISSUES, ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE Garrod Lofthouse CREDIT ON THE BACK , IS AN ACTUAL DATE WHEN THE COVER WAS MADE 7401 January 1974 THE ZERO BEFORE THE 1 PINPOINTS JANUARY AND I WILL SOON EXPLAIN THE SIGNIFICANCE, FOR NOW IT MEANS THE COVER WAS MADE A FEW WEEKS BEFORE THE RELEASE AS NORMAL.
THE COVER IS IN A MINIMUM OF EXCELLENT / NEAR MINT CONDITION.
THE IMMACULATE LABELS DO NOT HAVE ANY SPINDLE ALIGNMENT TRACES AND THE BEAUTIFUL VINYL DOES NOT HAVE ANY SCRATCHE, ANY FEATHER LIGHT FACTORY FINISH OR HANDLING IS NEAR INVISIBLE.
THE RECORD IS IN UNPLAYED/MINT CONDITION.
SIDE 1 Burn Ritchie Blackmore / David Coverdale / Glenn Hughes / Jon Lord / Ian Paice Might Just Take Your Life Ritchie Blackmore / David Coverdale / Glenn Hughes / Jon Lord / Ian Paice Lay Down, Stay Down Ritchie Blackmore / David Coverdale / Glenn Hughes / Jon Lord / Ian Paice Sail Away Ritchie Blackmore / David Coverdale SIDE 2 You Fool No One Ritchie Blackmore / David Coverdale / Glenn Hughes / Jon Lord / Ian Paice What s Going On Here Ritchie Blackmore / David Coverdale / Glenn Hughes / Jon Lord / Ian Paice Mistreated Ritchie Blackmore / David Coverdale A 200 Ritchie Blackmore / Jon Lord / Ian Paice DEEP PURPLE,1974 OR THE FIRST ALBUM RECORDED BY Mark III: David Coverdale - lead vocals Ritchie Blackmore - guitar Jon Lord - organ keyboards Glenn Hughes - bass vocals Ian Paice - drums percussion Recorded November 1973 In Montreux, Switzerland.
Engineered And Mixed By Martin Birch.
Produced By Martin Birch Deep Purple It has been hard to wait for the explanation about the pressing details but I was determined to keep it all together, if only to make it easier to lay out.
The rim text at approximately 10 o clock on this record s labels, is EMI Records Ltd.
, introduced in March 1973 to replace the rim text in place since August 1965, Gramophone Co.
Ltd.
A text that became part of Deep Purple records since 1968 and followed their Parlophone records onto the Harvest label and finally onto their own Purple Records label.
The Purple Records label was founded in late 1971 by Deep Purple s management, but too late for Fireball , which became their final Harvest label LP, the first issued on Purple Records was Made In Japan, like all EMI associated labels up to March 1973, Made In Japan, became the final Deep Purple album with Gramophone Co.
Ltd.
printed at approximately the same 10 o clock as EMI Records Ltd.
So far so good, then nearly a year later when Deep Purple Mark III recorded and released Burn , out of all synch with the above re-designed rim text, some of very first pressings with -1U / -1U maitrixes had the labels printed onto the old discontinued template labels with Gramophone Co.
Ltd.
A mistake made by a printer at Garrod Lofthouse that was seen and rectified on the correct template with EMI Records Ltd.
They were quickly printed and sent to EMI s pressing plant, applied to first pressing records with -1U / -1U maitrixes, there was no chance of destroying the record pressed based on such a minor item as a record company logo, this was not a legally enforceable copyright infringement.
So two different labels co-existed which was a common enough event in the 60 s and 70 s.
Obviously it was a mistake but how can I be so certain that was what happened? The album was recorded in late 1973 and as I established before, the cover was printed in January 1974 and Burn was released on the 15th February 1974.
By sheer coincidence over at Deep Purple s former Harvest label, Roy Harper had just recorded his latest album, titled Valentine , Roy wanted the album released on Valentine s Day, the 14th February, 1974, Garrod printed the cover, the lyric book you had to write off to receive, and.....
the labels.
Valentine became Roy Harper s biggest selling album and reached No.
27, every single one of the first pressings on the green Harvest label also had Gramophone Co.
Ltd.
once again the same printer had mistakenly added the details to a template that should have been destroyed a year ago.
The release dates of Valentine and Burn was in the same week and only one day separated them, that is no coincidence, to meet Valentine s Day, Roy Harper s cover had to be made very close to the release and indeed it was.
0274 was printed on the back by Garrod and that means only weeks divided the printing of both covers and therefore the labels, if anything it compounds the error and confirms it had to be the same individual employed by Garrod Lofthouse, who failed to destroy a long ago re-designed rim text template.
If you do anything do it properly, there is another item to document, the Purple Records and Harvest labels had another re-design in common, like all EMI labels, at 6 o clock sitting above the text in that position, from 1968 - March, 1973 was Made In Great Britain With the removal and replacement of Gramophone Co.
Ltd.
the floating above the rim text, Made In Great Britain, was moved onto the end of the rim text on the far right, fixed at approximately 4 o clock .
By January 1974 it was long established there, but Burn and Harvest were issued with Made In Great Britain back at 6 o clock and isolated above the rim text.
That has also gone unnoticed but just as relevent, the mistake made with Harvest concerned every album, but for Burn only some of the very first pressings with -1U /-1U maitrixes.
The fact other copies with the same maitrix were pressed with corrected labels is proof it was indeed an error, and then rectified very early in the manufacturing of the pre-release records.
Without this being previously unknown and fully examined, I slipped in original with first pressing to signify it never had the incorrectly used redundant labels...
maybe an A2 /-1U record is out there somewhere, if so, it will be ultra rare, but the earlier records with them are common and are not even remotely rare.
Solid facts are always the way to deal with apparently contradictory labels and understand EMI labels and maitrixes, concerns all their subsidiary label, plus for such a huge selling album, variations were hardly unusual in the 1970 s decade I have been typing nearly all day, when I would have preferred to be discussing the music on Burn, a stunning album, hard and very heavy with every track amini masterpiece.
Deep Purple Mark III made a definitive rock album at their first attempt, Ritchie supplied some incredible riffs and played some very tasty lead guitar.
I was going to describe the album and realised that the pressing and label details had to take priority, I did treat myself to one undetectable play and was blown away by both the sheer power of the record and how perfectly clean it was, the stereo mix was a work of art as well.
Burn announced the new vocalist David Coverdale was perfect for Deep Purple and their tradition of the finest vocals.
With Glenn Hughes also providing a second lead vocalist, as well as bass guitar skills the band were stable and producing incredible music, you even had an instrumental to end the album, A 200.
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