Knocking at Your Back Door: The Best of Deep Purple in the 80's
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Knocking at Your Back Door: The Best of Deep Purple in the 80's | ||||
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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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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.
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
[edit]All 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