The phenomenal title track started things off at full throttle and challenged the seminal “Highway Star” for the honour of best opener to any Deep Purple album, while showcasing the always impressive drumming of Ian Paice. Lead single “Might Just Take Your Life,” released 4 March, was Deep Purple’s first UK single in two years. It featured brand new interview with the original Deep Purple Mk III bassist and vocalist Glenn Hughes. In 2005 an unauthorised documentary about the album was produced as part of “The Ultimate Critical Review” series. The 2004 remix version of “BURN” was later used in “Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.” It appears as a bonus track (in remixed form) on the anniversary edition re-release. In 2004 “BURN” was remastered and released with bonus tracks. Coronarias Redig was recorded during the “BURN” recording sessions, used only as a B-side for the Might Just Take Your Life single in 1974. With the addition of David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes, Deep Purple’s hard rock sound incorporated elements of soul and funk, which would become much more prominent on the follow-up album, “Stormbringer.”īURN hit #3 on the UK Albums Chart, #9 on the US Billboard 200, and #1 in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Norway. The album was recorded in Montreux, Switzerland, in November 1973, with the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio. The album was the first to feature then-unknown David Coverdale on vocals and Glenn Hughes, from Trapeze, on bass and vocals. “BURN” is the eighth studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple, written and recorded in 1973, and released in February 1974.
We came back from the pub, and went down into the crypt, and magic happened.”Ĭoncludes Hughes, “It’s time to celebrate BURN, and I’m really looking forward to seeing you.” “The title track was the last song to be written. “As you could imagine, Ritchie Blackmore was in full prankster mode, Jon had warned me, and he rigged my room one night with a speaker that was hidden, and had ghostly voices delivered to my bedside.” Buy on Amazon Genres (Music): Heavy metal, Blues-rock. Musically we would play, and work out ideas, and David and I would come up with vocal melodies that would later have lyrics. Length (mins): 00:43:32 Genres (Music): Progressive rock, Psychedelic rock, Heavy metal, Hard rock. We worked on a new song every day, and we were in the flow. “All the songs on BURN were written in the crypt/dungeon, underneath the great hall. The atmosphere was electric, in such amazing surroundings.” “It was recorded in October in Montreux, Switzerland.”Ĭontinues Hughes, “We all became one in this centuries old castle in the UK countryside, it felt like Deep were a new band, with David (Coverdale) and I as new members, we couldn’t wait to start working on new songs. “It was 50 years ago, in the summer of 1973, that the BURN album by Deep Purple was written at Clearwell Castle in the Forest of Dean Gloucestershire,” reminisces Glenn.
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