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Bananas (album)

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Recorded
  
January–February 2003

Artist
  
Deep Purple

Producer
  
Michael Bradford

Length
  
51:25

Release date
  
9 September 2003

Label
  
EMI

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Released
  
9 September 2003 (Europe) 7 October 2003 (US)

Studio
  
Royaltone Studios, Burbank, California

Bananas (2003)
  
Rapture of the Deep (2005)

Genres
  
Rock music, Hard rock, Heavy metal

Similar
  
Deep Purple albums, Hard rock albums

Bananas is the 17th studio album by English rock band Deep Purple, released on 9 September 2003 via EMI Records and on 7 October 2003 via Sanctuary Records in the US.

Contents

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Overview

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 Ian Gillan-fronted Deep Purple album which makes use of backing vocals other than Gillan's own, with the song "Haunted" featuring Beth Hart. The album includes "Contact Lost", a short, slow instrumental about the Space Shuttle Columbia astronauts, written by guitarist Steve Morse when he heard the news of the crash.

Bananas charted well, despite lack of media exposure, especially in Europe and South America (notably at Germany and Argentina, where it peaked in the top 10).

Unreleased tracks

Since the Abandon album, Deep Purple performed three new songs onstage. "Long Time Gone" was debuted in the summer of 2000 but not included on Bananas. Another new song, "Up The Wall" was played on the 2002 UK tour, and reworked into "I've Got Your Number". The instrumental "Well Dressed Guitar" remained unreleased until the next album, 2005's Rapture of the Deep.

Track listing

All tracks written by Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Steve Morse, Don Airey, and Ian Paice, except where indicated..

Personnel

Deep Purple
  • Ian Gillan – lead vocals
  • Steve Morse – guitar, backing vocals
  • Don Airey – keyboards
  • Roger Glover – bass
  • Ian Paice – drums
  • Additional musicians
  • Paul Buckmaster – string arrangement and cello on "Haunted"
  • Beth Hart – backing vocals on "Haunted"
  • Michael Bradford – guitar on "Walk On"
  • Production
  • Michael Bradford - producer, engineer
  • Chris Wonzer - assistante engineer
  • Andy Vandette - mastering at Masterdisk, New York
  • Songs

    1House of Pain3:34
    2Sun Goes Down4:11
    3Haunted4:22

    References

    Bananas (album) Wikipedia