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Deep Purple

Machine Head: Super Deluxe Edition

UMC

Yep, the one with Smoke On The Water. That song, and this album, broke Deep Purple in America and made them legends all over the globe to this day.

This is essentially a three-CD version. The first disc pairs the 2024 Dweezil Zappa remix with the same-year remaster; the second contains ‘In Concert ’72’; and the third delivers the previously unreleased ‘Montreux ’71’. Given that you already own at least one copy of ‘Machine Head’ and possibly bought the 1972 gig on CD in 2012, you’ll need to know that this box also contains: a 60-page booklet, Dweezil’s remix on vinyl in a gatefold

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