Hallelujah_(Deep_Purple_song)

Hallelujah (Deep Purple song)

Hallelujah (Deep Purple song)

1969 single by Deep Purple

"Hallelujah" is a song by English hard rock group Deep Purple, released in 1969. It is the first single to feature singer Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover and released in-between their 1969 eponymous album and the live Concerto for Group and Orchestra. The B-side was an edit of the instrumental album track "April".

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The track was recorded on 7 and 12 June 1969. At the time, Glover had not yet joined the band and played on the track as a session musician.[2][3]

The song was written by Roger Greenaway and Roger Cook, and originally released as "I am the Preacher" by The Derek Lawrence Statement earlier the same year.[4] Deep Purple's cover version flopped, despite TV appearances to promote the record in the UK.[5] Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore told the Record Mirror that the new band "need to have a commercial record in Britain", and described the song as "an in-between sort of thing"—a median between what the band would normally make but with an added commercial motive.[5] Gillan was unhappy about the single because he did not write the lyrics.[3]

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References

  1. [1]
    Popoff, Martin (2016). The Deep Purple Family (2nd ed.). Wymer Publishing. p. 60. ISBN 978-1-908724-42-7.
  2. [2]
    Robinson, Simon (1995). Deep Purple in Rock (CD Booklet). Deep Purple. London: EMI. p. 5. 7243 8 3401925.
  3. [3]
    Gillan & Cohen 1993, p. 62.
  4. [4]
    45cat's entry about The Derek Lawrence Statement: "I am the Preacher" 1969 7"
  5. [5]
    Bloom, Jerry (2008). Black Knight: Ritchie Blackmore. Omnibus Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-1846097577.
  6. [6]
    "Deep Purple – Hallelujah". hitparade.ch.

Sources

  • Gillan, Ian; Cohen, David (1993). Child in Time – The Life Story of the Singer from Deep Purple. Smith Gryphon Limited. ISBN 1-85685-048-X.
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