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History:

• The Lloyd Webber brothers grew up very close and shared an obvious background in music. The different styles they played made it unlikely that they would ever collaborate.
• The two bet on a Leyton Orient football match. Andrew lost and his payment was having to write Julian’s cello work.
• Andrew chose the theme of Paganini’s 24th caprice and added 23 variations for cello and rock band.
• The work was premiered at the 1977 Sydmonton Festival and performed by the rock band Colosseum II with julian on cello.
• It was rearranged and recorded in 1978.

Core Band:

• Bass – Herbie Flowers
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie_Flowers
  • Played on Lou Reed’s “Walk on The Wild Side” and David Bowie’s “Space Oddity.”
  • Also played with Elton John, Al Kooper, Paul McCartney, Ringo Star, and George Harrison.
  • Played on Jeff Wayne’s “Musical Version of War of the Worlds.”
  • Sadly passed away in 2024.
• Bass [Fender Precision Bass, Hayman Fretless Bass Guitar] – John Mole
• Cello – Julian Lloyd Webber
• Composed By, Producer – Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Drums, Percussion – Jon Hiseman, Phil Collins
• Guitar – Gary Moore
• Keyboards – Don Airey, Rod Argent
  • Grand Piano, Synthesizer [Arp Odyssey, Mini Moog, Solina String Ensemble], Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes] – Don Airey
  • Grand Piano, Synthesizer [Mini Moog, Roland Rs 202, Yamaha Cs 80] – Rod Argent
• Piano – David Caddick
  • Worked with Webber as a musical director through the 80s and 90s.
• Synthesizer – Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Vibraphone [Vibes] – Bill Le Sage
  • British vibraphonist who played many acts including with The Charlie Watts Orchestra and the Kenny Baker’s Dozen. 
• Wind [Wind Instruments] – Barbara Thompson
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Thompson_(musician)
  • Married to Jon Hiseman until his passing in 2018.
  • Member of Colosseum.
  • Sadly passed away in 2022.

Additional Musicians:

• Musician [Additional Musicians], Bass – Herbie Flowers
• Musician [Additional Musicians], Drums, Percussion – Phil Collins
• Musician [Additional Musicians], Piano – Dave Caddick*
• Musician [Additional Musicians], Synthesizer – Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Musician [Additional Musicians], Vibraphone [Vibes] – Bill Le Sage

Technical:

• Engineer [Engineered By] – Martin Levan
• Lacquer Cut By – Porky (5)
• Coordinator [Production Coordinated By] – Bridget Hayward
  • Only other credit on Discogs is a title called “Stripping For Jesus.”

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Design [Cover Design] – Cream (7)
• The cover is based on the painting Frederick, Prince of Wales, and his sisters by Philip Mercier.
• Special thanks to Jon Hiseman, Julian Lloyd Webber, David Land and Biddy.
• Recorded at Morgan Studios, London.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Studios
• Cover picture a “Variation” of Philip Mercier’s ‘Frederick Prince of Wales and his Sisters’.
• With apologies to London’s National Portrait Gallery.
• Dedicated to The Small Vole.

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Album Tracks:

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1. “Introduction”
2. “Theme (Paganini Caprice in A minor No. 24) and Variations 1-4”
   • The opening theme is used as the theme to The South Bank Show (1978–2010)
3. “Variations 5 and 6”
   •  became “Unexpected Song” with lyrics by Don Black
4. “Variation 7”
5. “Variation 8”
6. “Variation 9”
7. “Variation 10”
8. “Variations 11-15 (including the Tributes to Hank Marvin and Prokofiev)”

Side Two:

9. “Variation 16”
10. “Variations 13-14 Varied” (listed as 14-15)
    • In the musical for “School of Rock” written by Andrew Lloyd Webber there is a scene where Dewey Finn and Ned Schneebly play Guitar Hero and are playing Variations.
    • The notes in the chorus on the song “Stick It To The Man” is taken from Variation 14.
11. “Variation 17”
12. “Variation 18” (Rachmaninoff‘s Variation 18)
    • “Variation 18” is an instrumental version of the title song from the first Rice and Webber musical, The Likes of Us (1965, unperformed until 2005)
13. “Variations 19, 20 and 5 Varied (listed as 6)”
    • the UK’s children’s programme, The Book Tower (hosted by Doctor Who actor, Tom Baker) adopted a section of “Variation 19” for its theme tune.
14. “Variations 21 and 22”
15. “Variation 23”

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Reception and Charts:

•  It reached Number 2 on the UK album charts.

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Core Band:

• *Candy Givens – Keyboards, Piano, Vocals
• *David Givens – Bass, Guitars, Vocals
• *Jock Bartley – Guitar, Vocals
  • Founding member of the band Firefall with  Rick Roberts of the Flying Burrito brothers whom he met while touring with Gram Parsons. The band remains active to this day.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefall
• *P.M. Wooten – Drums, Percussion
  • https://www.discogs.com/artist/1324550-Michael-Wooten-2?srsltid=AfmBOoquUq9F84ppjrJ84F6Ic3m_3xOXhA0xsTBApvYZAi0IckOWvCoU
  • Went on to play on three of Carol King’s albums.
• *Dan Smyth – Keyboards, Organ, Piano
  • Only credit on Discogs.
• *John Alfonse – Congas
• *Bobby Notkoff – Violin
  • https://www.discogs.com/artist/282860-Bobby-Notkoff?srsltid=AfmBOopIjQLQ92x5xB0tvbcTJEGkhG8wsGyStji6uBPS301ze_6muh4P
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Notkoff
  • Folk violinist. Went on to play with Neil Young and Crazy Horse.
  • Sadly he passed away in 2018.

Technical:

• Engineer [Gotham Recording Studios] – Preston Smith (4)
  • One of only two credits listed on Discogs.
• Engineer [Summit Studios] – Malcolm Addey
  • British engineer who started work at Abbey Road. Over 800 credits on Discogs starting in the early 1960s.
• Engineer [Wally Heider Studios] – Ken*
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caillat
  • American record producer. Has worked with  Billy Idol, Frank Sinatra, Pat Benatar, Wilson Phillips, the Beach Boys, Herbie Hancock, David Becker  Alice Cooper, and Christine McVie.He won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year for Rumours.
• Producer – David Givens, Zephyr (2)

Album Art & Booklet Review

Includes 11″ x 22″ lyric sheet.

Some copies were released as promotional as shown with round pink sticker on back of sleeve as well as a single sheet insert with album details and band biography (see image). Everything else appears the same including labels and runouts.

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1. I’m Not Surprised
   • Written-By – Candy Givens, David Givens
2. Someone To Chew
   • Written-By – Candy Givens, David Givens
3. High Flying Bird
   • Written-By – Billy Edd Wheeler
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Edd_Wheeler
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Flying_Bird_(song)
   • First recorded by Judy Henske in 1963 as the B-side to the single “Charlotte Town.”
4. No Time Lonesome
   • Written-By – David Givens
5. Moving Too Fast
   • Written-By – David Givens

Side Two:

6. Sold My Heart
   • Written-By – David Givens, Jock Bartley
7. Sierra Cowgirl
   • Written-By – Candy Givens
8. Chasing Clouds
   • Written-By – D. Smyth*
9. Sunset Ride
   • Written-By – Candy Givens
10. Winter Always Finds Me
    • Written-By – Alan Armstrong, Candy Givens, Jock Bartley

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Episode 346 – Roger Glover at 80

December 1, 2025

Introduction Script:

Welcome to the Deep Purple Podcast, a fan podcast devoted to one of the greatest bands in rock history – DEEP PURPLE!  Today’s episode is [ — EPISODE #, EPISODE TITLE — ], and coming to you from the [                ] suburbs of Chicago I’m your host, Nathan Beaudry.

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  • Sorry for the delay in responding to your questions. I had no idea. It’s probably too late but “Matt in Vegas” is fine. I think it was around 1973 I discovered DP thanks to my older brother and his friends. Smoke on the Water was playing all the time and it was then I wanted to play guitar and luckily still do. Then I watched the ABC In Concert show for Cal Jam and that did it for me. 
  • I think I discovered your show by accident. I was listening to a Rush podcast and I was scrolling underneath the show on my phone and under “you also might consider….” I found your show. Couldn’t believe it. A Deep Purple podcast? My favorite band growing up (I’m 61) and there is a podcast for this band!!! Jackpot!! This was about 4 years ago. And thanks to your show, I discovered Scott’s show. Two DP shows!!!
  • You guys do an awesome job, thank you for all you do. I just listened to the Made in Japan remix episode and decided I need to buy this but unfortunately it appears to be sold out. Thanks again!
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Episode Six

Deep Purple Early Days

Roger Glover – Made in Wales ( part. 1)

Roger Glover – Made in Wales ( part. 2 )

Deep Purple uncerimonious firing

The Butterfly Ball

Production

Rainbow Rejoining

Roger’s Birthday Party Bootleg

Recorded Friday

November 30th 1979

Long Island, New York USA Calderone Hall

Deep Purple reforming

Roger Glover interview on USA TV 1985

Deep Purple’s songwriting approach as discussed by Roger Glover

Roger Glover Masterclass

Roger Glover of Deep Purple – Gear Run

Meeting – Roger Saying that he can’t wrap his head around the fact that he’s almost 80!

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Episode Six

DP

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The Butterfly Ball

Rainbow

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History:

• In December of 1976 Paice Ashton Lord started rehearsing to prepare for touring. Their stage set was built by the person who’d done the stages for The Spy Who Loved Me and they rehearsed at Pinewood Film Studio.
• Jon hit local radion stations in early December to talk about the band.
  • “This new band isn’t going to be Deep Purple Mark 7. It’s NOT an attempt to recreate Purple, it’s a totally new direction for me and Ian.
• They only played a handful of shows ending with Tony falling off stage at the Rainbow Theatre and breaking his leg.
• After the shows Lord and Ashton went to America to promote the album with Warner Bros. before returning to Germany to start work on their second album.
• Ashton: “We went back to Munich to start recording a second album and got some tracks done but the impetus had gone and we never finished the album.”
• Ashton said that he had done vocals on the song Black and White at Abbey Road but the master tapes for the second album went missing and were never found.
• Tony had a monitor mix done on cassette so he could finish the lyrics and still had it. This is what was used as the source material for these tracks.

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   • This was a track they’d already performed live with Bernie Marsden on vocals.
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4. Moonburn
5. Dance Coming
   • The title of this track was a twist on a long standing BBC TV show called “Come Dancing.”
6. Goodbye Hello LA
7. Untitled Two
8. Ballad of Mr. Giver
   • Remake of the song Lord and Ashton did on their 1974 album “First Of The Big Bands.”

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Core Band:

• Performer – Dave Holland (2)
• Performer – Mel Galley
• Performer – Pete Wright (2)
  • Also worked with Robin George.
• Performer – Rob Kendrick
  • Went on to work with Don Nix, Nightwing, and Budgie.

Technical:

• Producer – Steve Smith (3)
  • https://www.notc.com/Content/Spotlights/1977/Steve_Smith-4-77.pdf
  • He stayed in England and became a producer for Island Records, producing Jim Capaldi and Bob Marley & The Wailers. Also produced Robert Palmer, Toots And The Maytals, Rough Diamond, No Dice, Gillan, Supertramp and others.
• Engineer, Remix – Phil Brown*, Trapeze
  • https://tapedemon.net/
  • His career started as a Junior Technician in 1967. Credits include mixing, sound recording and production, notably working in conjunction with British artists such as Talk Talk, China Crisis, Robert Plant, Faithless, Dido and British Sea Power to name a few.
  • He has also worked in an assistant studio role with many other European acts.
  • Started at Olympic Studios, worked as house engineer at Island Studios/Basing Street Studios (1970s), freelance engineer since.
• The album was reportedly mixed by Eddie Kramer who was uncredited.

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Design [Sleeve Design] – Seabrook Graves Aslett
  • Worked with The Everly Brothers, Faces, Buffalo Springfield, ELO, Wizzard.
• Photography By – Carl Dunn
  • Did photos for the cover of “You Are The Music” and “Play Me Out.”

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Album Tracks:

Side One:

1. Star Breaker
   • Written-By – Mel Galley, Tom Galley
2. It’s Alright
   • Written-By – Mel Galley
3. Chances
   • Lead Vocals – Glenn Hughes
   • Written-By – Glenn Hughes, Mel Galley, Tom Galley
4. The Raid
   • Written By – Mel Galley
5. Sunny Side Of The Street
   • Written-By – Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McHugh
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Fields
   • 4579 songwriting credits on Discogs for this songwriting team!
   • Jimmy composed and Dorothy was the lyricist.
   • Dorothy Fields was one of the first successful Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood songwriters.
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Sunny_Side_of_the_Street
   • Jazz standard from the 1930s.

Side Two:

6. Gimme Good Love
   • Written-By – Mel Galley, Steve Smith (3), Tom Galley
7. Monkey
   • Written-By – Mel Galley, Tom Galley
8. I Need You
   • Written-By – Mel Galley
9. Soul Stealer
   • Written-By – Mel Galley, Tom Galley
10. Nothin’ For Nothing
    • Lead Vocals – Glenn Hughes
    • Written-By – Mel Galley

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Reviews

• Drew Thompson on AllMusic 2 out of 5 stars:
  • User rating of 3.5 out of 5.
  • Drew Thompson
  • https://www.allmusic.com/album/trapeze-1975-mw0002562435
  • By 1975, Trapeze were a long, long way from the exquisite pastures of their debut album — and a long way, too, from the days when the Moody Blues could be ranked among their biggest fans, as well as their employers (the band was originally signed to the Moodies‘ Threshold label). But maybe hoping for at least a splash of that old magic to resurface, the band titled its final LP after its first — plain ol’ Trapeze — and the bandmembers did their best to look their imminent demise full in the face. Maybe they didn’t know what fate had in store for them as they recorded this, but Trapeze is still a dour little disc, desperately missing the funk infusions of Glenn Hughes and, for the most part, overshadowed even by its disappointing predecessor. “Star Breaker,” the opening cut, is probably the best thing here; for the most part, though, Trapeze is lumpen rock by rote, dull and dismissed by all but the most desperately faithful.

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• https://www.discogs.com/release/3187719-Trapeze-Trapeze
• https://musicbrainz.org/release/3124fee0-7bd2-4bc5-b2f7-7bb9aac179ca
• CD Release back cover notes by Derek Oliver.

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