Early Purple

Tracklist

• 1
  Hard Road
  5:15
  3.3 ★
• 2
  Chasing Shadows
  5:32
  3.2 ★
• 3
  One More Rainy Day
  3:15
• 4
  Why Didn’t Rosemary
  5:00
  3.4 ★
• 5
  Exposition
  2:54
• 6
  We Can Work It Out
  4:13
• 7
  April
  12:00

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Release credits

• Barry Ainsworth
  engineer
• Derek Lawrence
  mix, producer
• Ian Paice
  drums (drum set)
• Jon Lord
  Hammond organ, background vocals [2-3, 6], strings [7]
• Nick Simper
  background vocals [2], electric bass guitar
• Ritchie Blackmore
  electric guitar
• Rod Evans
  lead vocals [2-4, 6-7]

Issues

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  Early Purple

  12" Vinyl
  1972