Deep Purple – The Complete BBC Sessions

This page was created in 2002 and my research was acknowledged in the booklet for the 2011 2CD set, The BBC Sessions 1968-1970.

Mark 1

18.06.68 BBC Radio, Studio 1, Picadilly:

• Hush
• One More Rainy Day
• Help

25.06.68 BBC Radio, Studio 5, Maida Vale:

• Hush
• One More Rainy Day
• Kentucky Woman
• It’s All Over (no studio version)

08.01.69 BBC Radio:

• Interview with Rod Evans

14.01.69 BBC Radio, Studio 4, Maida Vale:

• Hey Boppa Re Bop (no studio version, early version of ‘The Painter’) – released on ‘The Book Of Taliesyn’ remaster [2000]
• Emmaretta – released on ‘Deep Purple’ remaster [2000]
• Wring That Neck – released on ‘The Book Of Taliesyn’ remaster [2000]
• Hey Joe – released on ‘Shades Of Deep Purple’ remaster [2000]
• It’s All Over (no studio version) – released on ‘The Book Of Taliesyn’ remaster [2000]

11.02.69 BBC Radio, Studio 4, Maida Vale:

• Emmaretta
• Bird Has Flown
• Hush
• Hey Boppa Re Bop (no studio version, early version of ‘The Painter’)

24.06.69 BBC Radio, Studio 5, Maida Vale:

• Lalena – released on ‘Deep Purple’ remaster [2000]
• The Painter – released on ‘Deep Purple’ remaster [2000]
• I’m So Glad

30.06.69 BBC Radio, Studio 5, Maida Vale:

• The Painter
• I’m So Glad
• Hush

Mark 2

11.08.69 BBC Radio, Studio 2, Aeolin Hall:

• Ricochet (no studio version, early version of ‘Speed King’, includes guitar solo later used in ‘The Mule’) – released on ‘Listen Learn Read On’ 6CD box set [2002]
• Bird Has Flown – released on ‘New, Live & Rare Volume 3‘ (EP) [1980] and on ‘Listen Learn Read On’ 6CD box set [2002]

29.08.69 BBC Radio, Studio 1, Picadilly:

• Kneel And Pray (no studio version, early version of ‘Speed King’)
• Child In Time

28.09.69 BBC Radio, Studio 5, Maida Vale:

• And The Address
• The Painter
• Child In Time
• Kneel And Pray (no studio version, early version of ‘Speed King’)
• Bird Has Flown

31.10.69 BBC Radio, Studio 4, Maida Vale:

• Speed King (includes some lyrics from ‘Kneel And Pray’) – released on ‘Listen Learn Read On’ 6CD box set [2002]
• Living Wreck
• Jam Stew (with lyrics, sometimes referred to as ‘John Stew’; an instrumental studio version was released on the 25th Anniversary reissue of ‘In Rock’) – released on ‘Listen Learn Read On’ 6CD box set [2002]

21.04.70 BBC Radio, Studio 5, Maida Vale:

• Hard Lovin’ Man – released on ‘Listen Learn Read On’ 6CD box set [2002]
• Bloodsucker – released on ‘Listen Learn Read On’ 6CD box set [2002]
• Living Wreck – released on ‘Listen Learn Read On’ 6CD box set [2002]

23.09.70 BBC Radio, Studio T1, Shepherds Bush:

• Jon Lord interview – released on ‘Listen Learn Read On’ 6CD box set [2002]
• Black Night – released on ‘Listen Learn Read On’ 6CD box set [2002]
• Grabsplatter – released on ‘The Anthology’ (LP only) [1985] and ‘Listen Learn Read On’ 6CD box set [2002]; read more
• Into The Fire – released on ‘Listen Learn Read On’ 6CD box set [2002]
• Child In Time – released on ‘Listen Learn Read On’ 6CD box set [2002]

On the BBC Stew bootleg CD in 1996, there is a version of Strange Kind Of Woman, introduced and back-announced by Brian Matthew, but this is the normal studio recording of the song despite Matthew’s comment “… recreated live in our studios …”.