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DEEP PURPLE
ISRAEL ON FIRE
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Item no. :LFMCD721 Barcode :0823564040783 Artist :DEEP PURPLE Product type :Compact Disc Label :LEFT FIELD MEDIA Release Date :06 November 2026
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In April 1984, eight years after the demise of Deep Purple, a full-scale reunion took place with the "classic" Mark II line-up from the early 1970s: Ian Gillan, Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover and Ian Paice all took part. The reformed band signed a worldwide deal with PolyGram, with Mercury Records releasing their albums in the US, and Polydor Records in the UK and other countries. The album Perfect Strangers was recorded in Vermont and released in October '84.
The reunion tour followed, starting in Australia and winding its way across the world to North America, then into Europe by the following summer. Financially, the tour was also a tremendous success. In the US, it out-grossed every other artist except Bruce Springsteen. The UK homecoming saw the band perform a concert at Knebworth on 22 June 1985, where the weather was bad - torrential rain and six inches of mud - in front of 80,000 fans. The gig was dubbed the "Return of the Knebworth Fayre".
The Mark II line-up continued, releasing The House of Blue Light in 1987, which was followed by a world tour and another live album Nobody's Perfect (1988), with cuts culled from several shows on the tour, but still largely based on the by-now familiar Made in Japan (1972) set-list. In the UK, a new version of 'Hush' (with Gillan on lead vocals) was released to mark 20 years of the band.
Ian Gillan was fired in 1989; his relations with Blackmore had again soured, and their musical differences had proven too damaging. Originally, the band intended to recruit Survivor frontman Jimi Jamison as Gillan's replacement, but this fell through owing to complications with Jamison's record label. Eventually, after auditioning several high-profile candidates, former Rainbow vocalist Joe Lynn Turner was recruited. This Mark V line-up recorded just one album, Slaves and Masters (1990), and toured in support of it. It achieved modest success, reaching number 45 in the UK and number 87 on the US Billboard chart.
One of the finest shows Deep Purple performed on the 'Slaves and Monsters Tour' took place at Park HaYarkon, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 28 September 1991.
1 Black Night/Long Live Rock ‘N’ Roll 8:49
2 Truth Hurts 8:54
3 The Cut Runs Deep/Hush 8:52
4 Perfect Strangers 8:35
5 Fire In The Basement/Bass Solo 7:14
6 Hey Joe 1:57
7 Love Conquers All 3:18
8 Difficult To Cure 4:47
9 Keyboard Solo 7:44
10 Knocking At Your Back Door 7:31
11 Lazy 4:33
12 Space Truckin’ 2:05
13 Highway Star 5:54