Black Night
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| "Black Night" | ||
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| Single by Deep Purple | ||
| from the album Deep Purple in Rock 25th Anniversary Edition | ||
| A-side(s) | Black Night | |
| Released | 1970 | |
| Format | 7" | |
| Genre | Hard rock | |
| Length | 3:28 | |
| Label | Harvest Records (UK) Warner Bros. (US) |
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| Writer(s) | Ian Gillan Ritchie Blackmore Roger Glover Jon Lord Ian Paice |
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| Producer(s) | Deep Purple | |
| Chart positions | ||
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#2 (UK) |
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| Deep Purple singles chronology | ||
| "River Deep - Mountain High" (1969) |
"Black Night" (1970) |
"Strange Kind of Woman" (1971) |
"Black Night" is a song by British hard rock band Deep Purple, first released as a single in 1970, and is now included on the 25th Year Anniversary version of their 1970 album, Deep Purple in Rock. The song became a smash hit following its release, peaking at #2 on UK charts, and to this day remains one of Deep Purple's highest ranked song.
It written and recorded one night the guys came back from a bar, because the record company found no suitable singles on Deep Purple in Rock.
The song has (almost) the identical riff of Blues Magoos's song "(We Ain't Got) Nothing Yet". The riff to Deep Purple's 1970 "Black Night" single was closely based off the riff to Ricky Nelson's 1962 "Summertime" (Deep Purple have said this themselves). In fact, the riff is a popular riff to borrow. In 1966/67 the Blues Magoos had "We Ain't Got Nothing Yet" around the same time that Status Quo had their version. But the riff seems to stem back to Ricky Nelson's 1962 rock-version re-working of the old George Gershwin standard "Summertime".
[edit] Covers
Bruce Dickinson - B side of single: "Dive, Dive, Dive", recorded live in 1990. The song is also recorded by the American Death metal band Deicide on their 2006 album, The Stench of Redemption, though with rewritten lyrics.
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