Nobody's Perfect (Deep Purple album)

Nobody's Perfect
Live album by Deep Purple
Released	June 1988
Recorded	May 23, 1987 - Feb 26, 1988 - 1988 (Hush)
Genre	Hard rock
Length	92:37 (1999 2CD edition) 74:00 (1988 CD edition)
Label	Polydor (UK) Mercury Records (US)
Producer	Roger Glover & Deep Purple
Deep Purple chronology
Scandinavian Nights (1988) Nobody's Perfect (1988) In the Absence of Pink: Knebworth '85 (1991)

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Nobody's Perfect is a live album released in 1988 by Deep Purple. It was recorded on their The House of Blue Light tour during 1987/88. Recorded live on 6 September 1987 in Verona Italy, 22 August 1987 in Oslo Norway, 23 May 1987 in Irvine Meadows, 30 May 1987 in Phoenix and 26 February 1988 at Hook End Manor in England. The album peaked at number 105 on the Billboard 200 in the US.^[2]

Track transitions are marked by fades. It also contains a new studio version of "Hush" to commemorate their 20th anniversary. "Black Night" was also re-recorded but never released. "Hard Lovin' Woman" includes parts of "Under The Gun" during Blackmore's guitar solo. "Strange Kind of Woman" includes parts of Jesus Christ Superstar. The album represented Deep Purple's setlist at the time, which consisted much of the typical "Made In Japan (album)" set, combined with newer material from the 1984 reunion album Perfect Strangers and The House of Blue Light. Songs such as "The Unwritten Law" and "Difficult To Cure" were played every night on the tour, but were not represented on this album.

Track listing

All songs written by Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice except where indicated.

Disc 1

1. "Highway Star" - 6:10
2. "Strange Kind of Woman" - 7:34
3. "Dead or Alive" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover) - 7:05 *
4. "Perfect Strangers" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover) - 6:24
5. "Hard Lovin' Woman" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover) - 5:03
6. "Bad Attitude" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord) - 5:30 *
7. "Knocking at Your Back Door" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover) - 11:24

Disc 2

8. "Child in Time" - 10:36
9. "Lazy" - 5:10
10. "Space Truckin'" - 6:02 *
11. "Black Night" - 6:06
12. "Woman from Tokyo" - 3:59
    • Includes a partial cover of Everyday by Buddy Holly
13. "Smoke on the Water" - 7:43
14. "Hush" (Joe South) - 3:32

• Tracks indicated with asterisk only originally appear on the LP release, except "Dead Or Alive" which appeared on the cassette version of the album. All these indicated tracks were reinstated on the 1999 remaster.

1988 Original CD

1. "Highway Star" - 6:10
2. "Strange Kind of Woman" - 7:34
3. "Perfect Strangers" - 6:25
4. "Hard Lovin' Woman" - 5:03
5. "Knocking at Your Back Door" - 11:26
6. "Child in Time" - 10:35
7. "Lazy" - 5:10
8. "Black Night" - 6:06
9. "Woman from Tokyo" - 4:00
10. "Smoke on the Water" - 7:46
11. "Hush" - 3:30

Personnel

• Ian Gillan - vocals, congas, harmonica
• Ritchie Blackmore - guitar
• Jon Lord - organ, keyboards
• Roger Glover - bass
• Ian Paice - drums

• Produced by Roger Glover and Deep Purple
• Engineer : Nick Davis

References

1. ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Nobody's Perfect - Deep Purple | AllMusic". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/nobodys-perfect-r5345. Retrieved 18 September 2011. 
2. ^ "Billboard album chart history-Deep Purple". http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums&model.vnuArtistId=4436&model.vnuAlbumId=802834. Retrieved February 20, 2009.