Purple Passages

Purple Passages is a 1972 United States-only compilation album by Deep Purple featuring material originally released in 1968 and 1969 on the Tetragrammaton label. It features classics such as "Hush" and "Kentucky Woman". It was issued on compact disc in 1998 and in 2007 with bonus tracks. This compilation included some alternate mixes of "The Bird Has Flown" and "Why Didn't Rosemary?", with the former having a clean intro instead of a fade-in on the album version. It also included the final Purple MK I single "Emmaretta" for the first time on LP. Original lead singer Rod Evans went on to front the popular 1970's band Captain Beyond.