Deep Purple : Who Do We Think We Are (Deluxe Edition)

FLY INTO THE RISING SUN

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 Who Do We Think We Are 

 is the 

seventh 

studio album 

by the 

English 

Rock band

 Deep Purple 

released on

  January,12th 1973

 in the US

 and in

 February 1973

 in the UK. 

It was 

Deep Purple's 

last album

 by the

 Mark II line-up 

with singer

 Ian Gillan 

and

 bassist 

Roger Glover

 until 1984’s

 Perfect Strangers.

Musically, 

the record showed

 a move to a more

 blues-based sound, 

even featuring 

scat singing. 

Although its production

 and the

 band's behavior 

after its release

 showed the group

 in turmoil,

 with

 front man

 Gillan 

remarking that

 "we'd all had major illnesses"

 and felt 

considerable fatigue,

 the album was a 

commercial success. 

Deep Purple

 became the

 top-selling U.S. artist

 in 1973.

The album featured

 the energetic

 hard-rock single

 "Woman from Tokyo,"

 which while

 scarcely played

 during the 1970s, 

would become

 a live staple

 from the band's 

1984 reunion onward.

RECORDING

Who Do We Think We Are 

was recorded in

 Rome in July 1972

 and Walldorf 

near Frankfurt

 in October 1972, 

using 

the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.

"Woman from Tokyo," 

the first track

 recorded in July,

 is about

 touring Japan

 for the first time

 (e.g. the lyric "Fly into the Rising Sun"). 

The only other track

 released from 

the Rome sessions

 is the outtake

 "Painted Horse."

 The rest were recorded 

in Frankfurt 

after more touring

 including Japan,

 (which yielded Made in Japan). 

The group,

 riven with internal strife, 

struggled to come up

 with tracks 

they agreed upon. 

Members were 

not speaking

 to each other

 and many songs

 were finished only

 after schedules 

were arranged

 so they could record 

parts separately.

TRACK LIST

CD 1

Woman From Tokyo

Mary Long

Super Trouper

Smooth Dancer

Rat Bat Blue

Place In Line

Our Lady

CD 2

Woman From Tokyo 

(99 Remix)

Woman From Tokyo 

(Alt Bridge)

Painted Horse 

(Studio Out-Take)

Our Lady 

(99 Remix)

Rat Bat Blue

 (99 Remix)

Smooth Dancer

 (Just Vocals)

First Day Jam

 (Instrumental)

Rat Bat Blue 

(Writing Session)

Rat Bat Blue

 (Instrumental)

Woman From Tokyo

 (Live)

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