Deep Purple
Rapture of the Deep


Tracks:

1. Money Talks
2. Girls Like That
3. Wrong Man
4. Rapture of the Deep
5. Clearly Quite Absurd
6. Don't Let Go
7. Back to Back
8. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
9. Junkyard Blues
10. Before Time Began

Line up:

Ian Gillan - vocals
Steve Morse - guitar
Roger Glover - bass
Ian Paice - drums
Don Airey - keyboards

Additional musicians:

Paul Buckmaster - string arrangement and cello on "Haunted"
Beth Hart - background vocals on "Haunted"
Michael Bradford - guitar on "Walk On"

Record Label / Year of Release:

Edel 2005

Notes:

Bananas is the 17th studio album by Deep Purple, released on October 7, 2003. It includes "Contact Lost", a short, slow instrumental about the Columbia astronauts, written by guitarist Steve Morse when he heard the sad news of the crash.

This is the first Deep Purple album to feature Don Airey on the keyboards, replacing founding member Jon Lord. The album was recorded in Los Angeles during January and February 2003.

It is also notable as being the only Deep Purple album that features Ian Gillan being backed by vocals other than his own, with the song "Haunted" featuring a female backing singer, Beth Hart.

Special Tour 2 CD Edition (Released June 2006) with bonustrack on CD 1:

11. Before Time Began

CD 2 (Bonus material: remixes, studio version of instrumental, live tracks)

1. Clearly Quite Absurd (New Version)
2. Things I Never Said (Japanese-only track on original CD issue)
3. The Well-Dressed Guitar (Instrumental outtake from Bananas sessions)
4. Rapture of the Deep (Live)
5. Wrong Man (Live)
6. Highway Star (Live)
7. Smoke on the Water (Live)
8. Perfect Strangers (Live)

Live tracks recorded October 10, 2005 at London's Hard Rock Cafe.