By the time Deep Purple released this album, they could barely function as humans, let alone as a cohesive rock band.

Such was their exhaustion after a tour which had lasted for a year and a half, the group was by now near collapse. Yet somehow, they managed, due to non-relenting pressure from their management, to record this album before the classic Mark II line-up of Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord and Paice disintegrated…

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