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Although I never bought this album in CD format (I rebought all Purple albums until Made In Japan but stopped), I still hold my vinyl and still look at it with all the happy moments it gave me. Newcoming Hughes and Coverdale are both excellent additions, although one could wonder why Coverdale needed a secoind singer in Hughes.

The title track and Sail Away are simply awesome riffs showing us that Blackmore was still a Riff-meister and his choice of Coverdale as a singer was another stroke of genius. The other two tracks rounding up side 1 are very worthy of the Purple calibre of what you would find in In Rock or Machine Head also. As for side 2, You Fool No-one is a rather correct track but will take more meaning live, while the great bluesy track Mistreated is clearly the cornerstone of the Mk III line-up. The album is also ending on an unusual (by Purple standards) instrumental track where Jon Lord shows interest in other keyboards than his good old Hammond organ.

A stunning album, showing that Blackmore was right to have disbanded the previous Mk II line-up after that terrible album of WDYTWA. Sadly the new blood would not sit well in the long term of Purple, but this is another story and let us not spoil our fun while listening to this album.

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