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Made in Japan documentary on BBC
An hour long documentary on Made in Japan will air on the UK TV channel BBC4 starting at 9:15pm this Friday, September 12. The film was directed by Ian Carmichael and produced by Drew Thompson. Judging by the BBC’s promo blurb, our guess is that it’s the same documentary that was released on the 4CD+DVD edition of the 40th anniversary remaster.
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Deep Purple’s groundbreaking double live album Made in Japan, this documentary explores these recordings and Deep Purple mark 2, the line-up between 1969 and 1973.
The film highlights the mark 2 period of this classic British rock band featuring the classic line-up of Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, Roger Glover and Ian Paice with a focus on the recording of the album Machine Head in Montreux, Switzerland in late 1971; the friction that developed within the band as a result of this recording and their incessant touring of the world in general and North America in particular; and the live recordings of the band’s first Japanese tour in August 1972, released that December in the UK as Made in Japan, a Number 1 UK album. Lars Ulrich of Metallica has cited Made in Japan as his favourite album of all time.
Featuring previously unseen exclusive footage, this film promises to uncover the meaning behind the song Smoke on the Water, known for one of the most iconic riffs in rock history, and to reveal the background to the mystery that lies behind the three nights in Osaka and Tokyo during the recording of the live Made in Japan album from 1972.
The showing will be repeated on Saturday, September 13, at 0:15am, and Monday, September 15, at 1:00am.
Thanks to Jonathan Earnshaw and Garry Mccormack for the info.
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Real… Highway star !
September 9th, 2014 at 02:54At there peak no band better at that point top five live album ever
September 9th, 2014 at 03:06When will it be shown in USA and will it be avail via YouTube, Netflix?
September 9th, 2014 at 03:11i love that adlib by blackmoore…nice band….
September 9th, 2014 at 05:23Is there a new hidden unknown meaning to SOTW that we don’t know about?
September 9th, 2014 at 11:55Place your bets. I’ll bet there is nothing new on this.
September 9th, 2014 at 11:56You know there are lots and lots of people out there who have no idea that the best band in the world is DP and some have never even heard of them. So whatever is shown in this tv programme will be very new to quite a lot of people and I’d hate to see them deprived of seeing the very best even at this late stage in the bands career.
September 9th, 2014 at 20:52Maybe Blackmore explains how he came up with the riff.
September 11th, 2014 at 16:53@ 7
Can´t agree more……that´s the difference between diehards and common people
Cheers!
September 12th, 2014 at 17:55Well it certainly inspired a lot of people to buy some albums.
September 14th, 2014 at 20:13Made in Japan is currently No.1 on both Amazon’s Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Charts.
In fact Deep Purple currently have 7 albums in Amazon’s Heavy Metal top 20 – Made In Japan has 3 separate entries!
I missed both broadcasts and did not buy the Now what edition in which this DVD was supposedly included 🙂
September 16th, 2014 at 13:07Why is there no thread on the release of ” Graz” ?
I am listening to it for some days now.
On other fora it is already discussed.
September 19th, 2014 at 14:46Apparently, there is much more footage from the Tokyo 72 show that was included in teh MIJ documentary. Not around 20 minutes, but seemingly 40. DP (O) hinted that the whole footage is being prepared for a full release later on.
September 22nd, 2014 at 18:54I see that one of my replies was in the wrong thread.
September 23rd, 2014 at 11:41Ofcourse the MIJ doc is NOT included in the Now What boxedition. 🙂
purpledaniel @13
September 24th, 2014 at 15:56I would be very interested in more of this footage. The 68/76 period of the band is the holy grail (at least to some of us!) !! Where did you get your info?
Thanks!