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[Updated] Universal has announced that a new remaster of Made in Japan will be released (at least in the UK) on May 19, 2014. It will come in three gabazillions of different CD, vinyl, blu-ray, and download formats, which we will try to summarize here.
Read more »The original management company Deep Purple (Overseas) has posted a teaser for the Made in Japan documentary that is being prepared for release some time early next year: The documentary component highlights the Mark 2 period of the band with a focus on the recording of ‘Machine Head’, the friction that developed within the band, […]
Read more »Further news about the 40th anniversary Made in Japan: the package will include a new documentary on Mark 2 around that period, plus 20+ minutes of 8 mm silent footage shot in Tokyo on August 17, 1972, and synchronized with the audio track. Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov for the info.
Read more »The old management company has announced that Universal is preparing a (belated) 40th anniversary edition of Made in Japan. Kevin Shirley is finishing remix of the album and actually all 3 Japanese dates are being remixed. Universal ended up owning the band’s back catalogue after in 2011 it bought up what was left of EMI’s […]
Read more »NME is running a readers’ poll of the greatest live albums of all time, which we announced back in April. Mission accomplished: Made in Japan is leading the poll, and by a good margin. Here’s top 10 as of September 21: Deep Purple — Made In Japan — 9.95 Pink Floyd — Pulse — 7.48 […]
Read more »Made In Japan is currently #2 in a new Greatest Live Albums Of All Time poll at British music magazine NME. Why don’t we all pull together to make it #1 – and bump Muse off that spot? Worth a try while we wait for the new one… Cast your vote now.
Read more »While being on tour in Indonesia with Iron Maiden, Bruce Dickinson spoke to the local edition of the Rolling Stone magazine. In the interview he revealed his top 5 favourite albums of all time. We list them here so that you can commend him on his music tastes. “In no particular order”, here it is: […]
Read more »In 1972 whilst in Japan for the ‘Made In Japan’ concert series , Purple also spent time at the local TV station NHK in Tokyo filming a 2 hour spot for the “Young Music Show”. Unfortunately it appears that the tapes have been lost, but we are being promised that the search will continue.
Read more »As previously reported exclusively by The Highway Star, seven rolls of 8mm film from Deep Purple’s 1972 concerts in Japan have come to light. We also promised you a look at the film. Click on this photo to see a series of screen grabs from the black & white film. 90 seconds of Highway Star […]
Read more »Deep Purple’s Made In Japan concerts were filmed. At least in part. Seven reels of silent 8mm footage filmed at Deep Purple’s famous August 1972 Japanese concerts have been found. Rumours of such film have persisted for years, and now their existence has been verified. Audio recordings of these three concerts formed the basis of […]
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