LP - Deep Purple – Fireball - Original 1 press UK 1971 - NM / NM !

Deep Purple – Fireball
Deep Purple - Fireball album cover
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Label: Harvest – SHVL 793, Harvest – 1E 064 o 92726
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Textured Gatefold
Country: UK
Released: Sep 1971
Genre: Rock
Style: Hard Rock
A1 Fireball
A2 No No No
A3 Demon's Eye
A4 Anyone's Daughter
B1 The Mule
B2 Fools
B3 No One Came
Record Company – E.M.I. Records
Record Company – The Gramophone Co. Ltd.
Manufactured By – The Gramophone Co. Ltd.
Recorded At – De Lane Lea Studios
Recorded At – Olympic Studios
Recorded At – The Hermitage
Produced For – Edwards Coletta Productions
Published By – Hec Music
Pressed By – The Gramophone Co. Ltd.
Printed By – Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.
Made By – Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.
Made By – Trade Platemaking Services
Bass Guitar – Roger Glover
Concept By [Devised By], Producer [Produced By] – Deep Purple
Cover, Design – Castle, Chappell & Partners Limited
Crew [Equipment] – Ian Hansford, Rob Cooksey, Ron Quinton
Drums – Ian Paice
Electric Guitar, Lead Guitar – Ritchie Blackmore
Engineer – Alan O'Duffy, Lou Austin*, Martin Birch
Keyboards – Jon Lord
Lacquer Cut By – Pek*
Lead Vocals – Ian Gillan
Photography By [Chagford Studios] – Tony Burrett
Written By – Blackmore-Gillan-Glover-Lord-Paice
Written-By – Gillan*, Paice*, Lord*, Blackmore*, Glover*
Cover swopping is common on this LP so it is important to define a 1st Press Cover correctly.

First edition covers have a darker textured gatefold sleeve (depicting five b&w live photos inside) - the texturing is deep and defined, the spine is thicker, and the cover is thick. The opening edges had one 'flat sealed' at the factory, and the other open. The cover is also of '1 piece' manufacture - folding over at the bottom and glued internally at the top.

ANY COVER THAT IS:- thinner, has small texturing or less defined texturing, is paler, is smooth, is a '2 piece' cover (glued internally at the top and bottom), or has 1 edge 'folded over' and factory sealed is a LATER COVER and is not original.

The Gramophone Co. Ltd. appears at the beginning of the circular text on both labels - later copies have 'EMI Records' instead.

Initial quantities came with a lyrics insert printed in purple on both sides - and this was discontinued in 1973.

All 1st pressings come in a 'polylined' EMI/Harvest inner sleeve depicting other artists' current releases on the Harvest label.
This inner was discontinued in 1974.

Date code 7109 (September 1971) and printer’s credit on inner gatefold.
“Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.”

E.M.I. RECORDS (The Gramophone Company Ltd.)
HAYES, MIDDLESEX, ENGLAND.
Made and Printed in Great Britain

Album Devised And Produced By Deep Purple For Edwards/Coletta Productions.
℗ 1971

Runouts are stamped except for PE and K which are etched.
Matrix / Runout (Label side A, in parentheses): SHVL.793A
Matrix / Runout (Label side B, in parentheses): SHVL.793B
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 1): SHVL 793A-2U PE K
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 1): SHVL 793B-3U
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 2): SHVL 793 A-2U PE K PR 3
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 2): SHVL 793 B-3U HT 1
Rights Society: MCPS. Britico. NCB