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. Each concert has its own gatefold sleeve and paper CD-liners, being housed in a cardboard outer box. The first recording is from a show on 16 October at the

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. The second is from a show at the

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on 9 November, which would be the final show Ritchie Blackmore did with Deep Purple in England. The live album '' Come Hell or High Water'' from 1994 was recorded at this Stuttgart show. The Birmingham show was released on DVD as '' Come Hell or High Water'' in 1994. In 2007 each show had a separate release, in a jewel-case, being titled ''Live in Stuttgart'' and ''Live at the Birmingham NEC''. The Birmingham show was soon deleted, Ian Gillan advising fans not to buy the release, describing the performance as one of the band's worst.

Track listings

All songs written by Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice, except where indicated.

Live at Schleyer Halle (Stuttgart)

Disc one

#" Highway Star" – 7:20 #" Black Night" – 6:15 #"Talk About Love" – 4:22 #"A Twist in the Tale" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover) – 4:37 #" Perfect Strangers" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover) – 6:56 #" The Mule" – 2:19 #" Difficult to Cure ( Beethoven's Ninth) / Keyboard Solo" (

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) – 8:08 #" Knocking at Your Back Door" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover) – 9:40 #"Anyone's Daughter" – 4:16 #"

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" – 11:09 #"Anya" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord) – 12:14

Disc two

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" – 6:37 #" Lazy" – 8:55 #" In the Hall of the Mountain King" ( Edvard Grieg) – 1:54 #"

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" – 2:26 #"

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" – 2:08 #" Paint It, Black / Mandrake Root" ( Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 5:35 #" Speed King / Burn" – 7:24 #" Hush" ( Joe South) – 3:32 #" Smoke on the Water" – 12:28

Live at the NEC (Birmingham)

Disc one

#"Highway Star" – 8:12 #"Black Night" – 5:19 #"Talk About Love" – 4:16 #"A Twist in the Tale" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover) – 4:37 #"Perfect Strangers" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover) – 6:48 #"Difficult to Cure (Beethoven's Ninth)" (Ludwig van Beethoven) – 2:51 #" Jon's Keyboard Solo" (Lord) – 6:13 #"Knocking at Your Back Door" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover) – 8:48 #"Anyone's Daughter" – 3:47

Disc two

"Child in Time" – 10:12 #"Anya" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord) – 7:16 #"The Battle Rages On" (Blackmore, Gillan, Lord, Paice) – 6:23 #"Lazy & Drum Solo" – 7:21 #"Space Truckin'" – 2:42 #"Woman from Tokyo" – 2:22 #"Paint It, Black" (Jagger, Richards) – 7:04 #"Hush" (South) – 3:22 #"Smoke on the Water" – 9:41

Personnel

;Deep Purple * Ritchie Blackmore –

lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

* Ian Gillan –

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

* Jon Lord –

keyboards Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware Music * Musi ...

* Roger Glover –

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

* Ian Paice –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

References

{{Deep Purple 2006 live albums Deep Purple live albums