Knocking at Your Back Door: The Best of Deep Purple in the 80's is a compilation album by the English hard rock band Deep Purple. The album was released in 1992.
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Released | April 1992[1] | |||
Recorded | 1984–1986–1987–1988 | |||
Genre | Hard rock, heavy metal | |||
Length | 64:49 | |||
Label | Mercury/PolyGram | |||
Producer | Deep Purple | |||
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It is a compilation of tracks from three albums, Perfect Strangers (1984), The House of Blue Light (1987), and the live album Nobody's Perfect (1988).
Track listing
editAll songs written by Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice, except where noted. "Son of Alerik" is replaced by a live version of "Child in Time" on the PolyGram US edition.
- "Knocking at Your Back Door" – 7:02
- "Bad Attitude" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord) – 5:07
- "Son of Alerik" – 10:02
- "Nobody's Home" – 4:00
- "Black Night" (Live) – 6:07
- "Perfect Strangers" – 5:19
- "The Unwritten Law" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Paice) – 4:55
- "Call of the Wild" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord) – 4:51
- "Hush" (Live) (Joe South) – 3:31
- "Smoke on the Water" (Live) – 7:43
- "Space Truckin'" (Live) – 5:39
Personnel
edit- Ian Gillan – vocals
- Ritchie Blackmore – guitar
- Jon Lord – organ, keyboards
- Roger Glover – bass, synthesizer
- Ian Paice – drums
References
edit- ^ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. p. 210. ISBN 9780862415419.
- ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. Knocking at Your Back Door: The Best of Deep Purple in the 80's at AllMusic