Deep Purple – Fireball
Label:
Harvest – SHVL 793, Harvest – 1E 064 ○ 92726
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Textured Gatefold
Country:
UK
Released:
Sep 1971
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Hard Rock
 
Tracklisting
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.
Produced For – Edwards Coletta Productions
Published By – Hec Music
Pressed By – The Gramophone Co. Ltd.
Designed At – Castle, Chappell & Partners Ltd.
Printed By – Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.
Made By – Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.
Made By – Trade Platemaking Services
Concept By [Devised By], Producer [Produced By] – Deep Purple
Design [Cover] – Castle, Chappell And Partners Limited*
Engineer [1.] – Martin Birch
Engineer [2.] – Lou Austin*
Engineer [3.] – Alan O'Duffy
Equipment – Ian Hansford, Rob Cooksey, Ron Quinton
Lacquer Cut By – Pek* (tracks: Side A)
Performer – Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover
Photography By – Chagford Studios, Tony Burrett
Written By – Blackmore-Gillan-Glover-Lord-Paice
Written-By – Gillan*, Paice*, Lord*, Blackmore*, Glover*
Original UK release.
First catalogue number on cover and labels, second (EMI international catalogue number) in parentheses on cover back.
Cover swopping is common on this LP so it is important to define a 1st press cover correctly:
• Original releases have a darker fully textured gatefold cover (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 have 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.
Labels:
• 'The Gramophone Co. Ltd.' appears at the beginning of the circular text on both labels - later copies have 'EMI Records' instead.
• 'Made in Gt. Britain' appears at the bottom of both labels.
Initial quantities contain a thick paper lyrics insert printed in purple on both sides - this was discontinued in 1973.
All original pressings are housed in a polylined EMI/Harvest paper inner sleeve depicting other artists' current releases on the Harvest label - this inner sleeve was discontinued in 1974.
A2 appears as "No No No" on cover, but as "No, No, No" on label.
A4 appears as "Anyone's Daughter" on cover, but as "Anyones Daughter" on label.
E.M.I. RECORDS (The Gramophone Company Ltd.) HAYES • MIDDLESEX • ENGLAND
Made and Printed in Great Britain
File under POPULAR : Pop Groups
An Edwards/Coletta Production
℗ 1971
Runouts are stamped except for 'PE K' which is etched.
Rights Society: MCPS. Britico. NCB.
Other (Printer date/code inside gatefold): 7109 TPS
Other (Inner sleeve, Patent Nos.): 1,125,555∙ 1,072,844∙
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 793A-2U PE K PR 3
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 2): SHVL 793B-3U HT 1
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 3): SHVL 793A-2U O 1 PE K
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 3): SHVL 793B-3U GG 1
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 4): SHVL 793A-2U OG 2 PE K
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 4): SHVL 793B-3U HT 1
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 5): SHVL 793A-2U PE K 11 1
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 5): SHVL 793B-3U RO 1
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 6): SHVL 793A-2U PE K RD 1
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 6): SHVL 793B-3U MT 1
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 7): SHVL 793A-2U PE K MD 3
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 7): SHVL 793B-3U RM 2