Ian Gillan - The Singles Box (2007, 11CD)

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Well now, following on from the remastered, bonus track enhanced albums that came out on Edsel earlier this year, the same company are bringing us "The Singles + The Promo Videos". So, what you're getting is a 12 disc box set comprising reproductions of 11 Gillan singles plus a DVD containing seven promo videos. So why would you want it? Well, it's rather obvious isn't it? You get all those Gillan 7" singles you never play in a shiny cardboard box, all ready to play in your CD player.

Spanning the three years from "Mr Universe" to the demise of Gillan (the band), the singles are all faithfully reproduced (ish). I mean they don't give you the fancy fold out sleeves or story booklets, and they don't (and this is important) contain any unavailable songs. The remastered albums swept up the single tracks in amongst all the other bonus tracks. Unless you include a couple of single edits. And I don't. So don't start whingeing about "ripping off the fans, man". It's obvious what it is, so don't buy it, if you don't want it. And there are, so I'm told, only 3,000 of them being issued, so you may want to grab one for future Ebay sales.

It's really a collection for collectors, or folks too lazy to buy up the original versions at their friendly, local record fair. And it probably works out cheaper than buying up the vinyl, even if Gillan singles are usually in the pound box. Of course, you also get the promo videos on a handy DVD, to save you all that YouTube downloading. Which is very amusing in a 'my God, was that what passed for a video in those days?', kind of way. I mean, a band looking like Gillan wouldn't get through the door at a record company nowadays.

Mr Gillan has graciously contributed some tales from back in the days to go with the workmanlike booklet, and it did bring back hazy, warm memories of rushing down to Haymarket on the day of release to snaffle them up. Especially with the promo stickers reproduced as well! Was it really a whole £1.15 for the 'No Laughing In Heaven EP'? That was 16p over my budget back then, you know. The B-sides are where the fun lies, and work better in this format than as bonus tracks, and I still remember the bother I got into for singing 'Your Sister's On My List' just that little bit too loudly!

~ www.deep-purple.net

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