Vincent Price (song)
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Songwriter(s) | Don Airey, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Steve Morse, Ian Paice, Bob Ezrin | |||
Producer(s) | Bob Ezrin | |||
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"Vincent Price" is a song by English rock band Deep Purple. Featured on their 19th studio album, titled Now What?!, the track is both the second single from the album and the last track on it. The band confirmed the single's release on 6 May 2013, sending messages via their official webpage and Facebook account.[2]
Featuring a
Background and song contents
The song is a tribute to the late classic
In terms of the track's creation, Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan has remarked,
"Everything emerges from the jam sessions we have every day and this is typical Purple. When an idea spins out, you set it aside and start thinking, 'We've got to look at the arrangement to this and the key'. You can't just identify them as number one and number two and number three, and so we give them working titles and this one sounded to everyone like the soundtrack to a horror movie, so we called it Vincent Price."[4]
Price had worked with both Gillan and Glover earlier in their careers.[4] For Glover, it was during the recording of his concert performance The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast, a Royal Albert Hall event which was recorded on 16 October 1975. A related film came out the following year.[5]
Release information
Deep Purple as a group decided to release "Vincent Price" as a digital download, through an expanded CD release, and also as a seven-inch transparent
Critic Steve Leggett, writing for
Track listing
7" single
- "Vincent Price"
- "First Sign of Madness"
CD single
- "Vincent Price" - 4:47
- "First Sign of Madness" - 4:26 (Non-album track)
- "The Well-Dressed Guitar" - 2:51
- "Wrong Man" - 4:30 (Live performance from a 10-10-2005 set in London)
See also
- Deep Purple discography
- "Thriller" (also referring to Price, with a cameo)
- "The Black Widow" (also referring to Price, with a cameo)
References
- ^ a b c d e Leggett, Steve. "Now What?! - Deep Purple". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
- ^ "Deep Purple | New Studio Album Now What?! - Out April 2013". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- ^ a b c "DEEP PURPLE: 'Vincent Price' Single Artwork Unveiled". Blabbermouth.net. 25 May 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
- ^ a b c "Ian Gillan: 'New Song Vincent Price Is Just A Bit Of Fun'". Contactmusic.com. 29 May 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
- ^ "The Butterfly Ball – Attend If You Dare". MovieMorlocks.com