Talk:Deep Purple in Rock

Release date
The correct release date is June 5, not 3. As specified in the book "Wait for the Ricochet" (added as a source to the article), new albums were released on Fridays, ahead of the biggest sales day of Saturday. --Purple74 (talk) 08:56, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Do you have a page that it's on? I have the 1995 CD (which I've just used to expand / improve the article), but it just says "June 1970". Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  11:35, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
 * page 119. I have just added a photo of that part here. --Purple74 (talk) 10:45, 4 June 2021 (UTC)


 * BPI's certification page says 19 June 1995. In the U.S., the date is later: RIAA says it was 1 August. Binksternet (talk) 21:32, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see you are talking about the LP in 1970, not the CD in 1995. Binksternet (talk) 21:58, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * pointed out the release date is noted on the 1995 CD, just not where I was looking. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  22:08, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

I need to insist and change again the date to June 5. Please, do not revert it back to June 3 and do not use Martin Popoff as a source for that: Popoff is a canadian, and he probably doesn't know much about british releases. This comes from a much better source. The british book "Wait for the Ricochet", by Simon Robinson who is a huge authority on the Deep Purple lore (with several publications on the matter and decades running the Deep Purple Appreciation Society). --Purple74 (talk) 10:31, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * , I haven't got that book yet, but I do agree that Simon Robinson is the most reliable source for anything connected to Deep Purple's history - and indeed is cited several places in the article anyway. A while back, I think Deep Purple's management tried to create an account here, and I bounced them towards Simon for advice (whether they did that or not, who knows?) Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  09:54, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Flight of the Rat meaning
We have been working on improving the Russian version of the page. The question is that we don’t know the correct translation for “Flight of the Rat” song title. We stuck between two meanings: “flying rat” versus “escaping rat”. Probably this is an English idiom. Please advise.

Voxamarkin (talk) 20:43, 6 February 2022 (UTC)


 * The answer is in the article itself, strange that you don't see it if you translate the article. "Flight of the Rat" is a re-arrangement of "Flight of the Bumblebee", so both your translations are wrong. It should translate to "the flight of rats". I don't speak Russian at all, but I see that FotB translates as Полёт шмеля. Changing "bumblebee" with "rat", I get something like Полёт крысы? Keep in mind this is google translate. --Muhandes (talk) 14:48, 15 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Your answer didn’t clarify the point. The source https://www.songfacts.com/facts/deep-purple/flight-of-the-rat says “The Rat" is a reference to a drug habit - Deep Purple made occasional anti-drug references in their songs and according to Gillan someone mentioned the classical composition "Flight of the Bumble Bee" and their organ man, Jon Lord, started playing variations around it. So it is not about the origin of the lyrics and meanings. — Voxamarkin (talk) 20:01, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry this was not the answer you were looking for. --Muhandes (talk) 23:24, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Bloodsucker Live
Bloodsucker is known to have been performed live in late 90s. It is also known that Gillan introducing the song to the crowd would say “The song is dedicated to management”. Need a solid proof on that introduction. Hint: YouTube is being banned. — Voxamarkin (talk) 20:28, 28 February 2022 (UTC)


 * This should work — YouTube — Deep Purple Official — Voxamarkin (talk) 17:07, 12 March 2022 (UTC)