[% META title = 'The Deep Purple Discography' lineup = 'mk2a, mk2b' releasetitle = 'Best On Stage 1970-1985' releasetype = 'album, compilation, box, live' %]
Best on Stage 1970-1985

UK 1994 Connoisseur Collection DPBOX-301/302/303 [3CD Box]
UK 1994 Connoisseur Collection DP BOX 301 [1CD; title: Highway Star]
UK 1994 Connoisseur Collection DP BOX 302 [1CD; title: Child in Time]
UK 1994 Connoisseur Collection DP BOX 303 [1CD; title: Black Night]


Box Cover


Alternate Box Cover


CD 1
(Child In Time)


CD 1 Alternate
(Child In Time)


CD 2
(Highway Star)


CD 3
(Black Night)

Compilation material by Mks IIa & IIb. The individual CDs were also sold separately.

All the material here have been previously released on "ordinary" live albums. Apparently, the individual CDs were also sold individually; not just in a box.

TRACK LIST CD 1 = On Stage: Child in Time

  1. Wring that neck
  2. Into the fire
  3. Paint it black
  4. Child in time

Recorded live at the Knebworth Fayre in June 1985. The tracks are taken from In the Absence of Pink.

TRACK LIST CD 2 = On Stage: Highway Star

  1. Highway star
  2. Nobody's home
  3. Strange kind of woman
  4. Gipsy's kiss
  5. Perfect St. Rangers or Perfect strangers
  6. Lazy
  7. Knockin' at your back door

Recorded live in Stockholm during November 1970. The tracks come from Scandinavian Nights/Live & Rare.

TRACK LIST CD 3 = On Stage: Black Night

  1. Space truckin'
    Including "Difficult to cure".
  2. Speed king
  3. Black night
  4. Smoke on the water

Recorded live at the Knebworth Fayre in June 1985. The tracks are taken from In the Absence of Pink.