Artist: DEEP PURPLE
Album: 30: VERY BEST OF ... (CD)

Release date: 1998/ 2003
Media type: CD

30: The Very Best of Deep Purple is a 1998 compilation album by English rock band Deep Purple, celebrating 30 years of the successful band. There are two versions of the album, a single CD and a double CD.

The single CD version concentrates on the greatest hits of Deep Purple through the years, and contains mostly edited single versions of the songs, for example "Child in Time" which was over ten minutes long in its original form on the album Deep Purple in Rock.

The album was certified Silver on 2 December 2005 by the BPI, selling 60,000 copies in the UK. It peaked on the Australian charts at number 41.

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

TRACKLIST:

1. "Hush (30th anniversary remaster)" (Joe South) 1968 – Shades of Deep Purple 4:28
2. "Black Night (single version remaster)"   1970 – Black Night single 3:29
3. "Speed King (single version)"   1970 – Deep Purple in Rock 4:27
4. "Child in Time (single edit)"   1970 – Deep Purple in Rock 4:15
5. "Strange Kind of Woman (single vesion)"   1971 – Fireball 3:53
6. "Fireball"   1971 – Fireball 3:26
7. "Demon's Eye"   1971 – Fireball 5:19
8. "Smoke on the Water (25th anniversary remaster)"   1972 – Machine Head 5:43
9. "Highway Star ('97 remix)"   1972 – Machine Head 6:32
10. "When a Blind Man Cries ('97 remix)"   1972 – Never Before single 3:31
11. "Never Before (single edit)"   1972 – Machine Head 3:30
12. "Woman from Tokyo (single edit)"   1973 – Who Do We Think We Are 2:47
13. "Burn (single edit)" (David Coverdale, Blackmore, Lord, Paice) 1974 – Burn 4:33
14. "Stormbringer" (Blackmore, Coverdale) 1974 – Stormbringer 4:07
15. "You Keep on Moving (single edit)" (Coverdale, Glenn Hughes) 1975 – Come Taste the Band 4:30
16. "Perfect Strangers (single version)" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover) 1984 – Perfect Strangers 4:16
17. "Vavoom: Ted the Mechanic" (Gillan, Steve Morse, Glover, Lord, Paice) 1996 – Purpendicular 4:19
18. "Any Fule Kno That" (Gillan, Morse, Glover, Lord, Paice) 1998 – Abandon 4:27

LINE-UP:

Ritchie Blackmore – guitar on tracks 1-14, and 16
Ian Gillan – vocals on tracks 2-12 and 16-18
Roger Glover – bass on tracks 2-12, and 16-18
Jon Lord – keyboards on all tracks, backing vocals on track 1
Ian Paice – drums on all tracks
Rod Evans – lead vocals on track 1
Nick Simper – bass & backing vocals on track 1
David Coverdale – lead vocals on tracks 13-15
Glenn Hughes – bass & vocals on tracks 13-15
Tommy Bolin – guitar on track 15
Steve Morse – guitar on tracks 17-18