Deep Purple
Live at The Royal Albert Hall


Tracks:

Disc one

1. Pictured Within
2. Wait a While
3. Sitting in a Dream
4. Love Is All
5. Via Miami
6. That's Why God Is Singing the Blues
7. Take It off the Top
8. Wring That Neck
9. Pictures of Home

Disc two

10. Concerto for Group and Orchestra, Movement 1
11. Concerto for Group and Orchestra, Movement 2
12. Concerto for Group and Orchestra, Movement 3
13. Ted the Mechanic
14. Watching the Sky
15. Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
16. Smoke on the Water

Line up:

Steve Morse – Guitar
Ian Gillan – Vocals
Jon Lord – Organ, Keyboards
Mickey Lee Soule - Keyboards
Roger Glover – Bass
Ian Paice – Drums
Sam Brown - Vocals
Ronnie James Dio - Vocals

Record Label:

Spitfire / Eagle Rock Entertainment

Year of Release:

2000

Notes:

Live at the Royal Albert Hall is a live album by Deep Purple, recorded on September 25 and September 26, 1999 at the Royal Albert Hall in London with the London Symphony Orchestra, and released on February 8, 2000 on Spitfire records.

The album was a project started in 1999 by keyboardist Jon Lord, who sought to recreate the band's innovative 1969 album, Concerto for Group and Orchestra, of which the original score was lost. With the help of Marco de Goeij, a fan who was also a musicologist and composer, the two painstakingly recreated the lost score, and Lord elected to have the band perform it once more at the Royal Albert Hall, but this time with the London Symphony Orchestra rather than the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and with Paul Mann as conductor rather than Malcolm Arnold.

The concert also featured songs from each member's solo careers, as well as a short Deep Purple set, and guest musicians such as Ronnie James Dio, the Steve Morse Band, and Sam Brown. In early 2001, two similar concerts were also performed in Tokyo, and were released as part of the The Soundboard Series box set.

A DVD of the performance was also released, entitled In Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra.

Ronnie James Dio sings on track 3, 4 & 16.