1980 Vinyl Initial 1st release with color sticker sheet inside
Blues Rock
Hard Rock
Polydor, Sunburst
bass Neil Murray design Masami Nakamine drums Dave Dowle guitar Bernie Marsden guitar Micky Moody illustration Akira Yokoyama liner notes Koh Sakai organ [hammond], keyboards, clavinet, synthesizer Jon Lord producer Martin Birch vocals David Coverdale Phonographic Copyright (p) Sunburst Records Ltd. Manufactured By Polydor K.K. Recorded At Hammersmith Odeon Produced For Sunburst Limited Edition Initial 1st pressing release with bonus color sticker inside(as indicated on the right side of the obi) Came in hard card sleeve with wider obi strip indicating there is free sticker sheet inside as well as a liner notes/lyrics insert. Very first editions had an orange circle sticker with Japan Tour Commemorative release for April 1978 Japan Tour. After April this sticker was not affixed.
1978 Sunburst Records Ltd. Manufactured by Polydor K.K., Japan 3/1980 Recorded live At Hammersmith Odeon, London, on 23rd November, 1978
Matrix / Runout: MPF - 1288 A CBO A - 1 - 6 (Side A stamped, Variant 1) Matrix / Runout: MPF - 1288 A A - 1 - 6 (Side B stamped, Variant 1) Matrix / Runout: MPF - 1288 A A - 1 - 10 (Side A stamped, Variant 2) Matrix / Runout: MPF - 1288 B A - 1 - 10 (Side B stamped, Variant 2) Matrix / Runout: MPF - 1288 A BO A - 1 - 5 (Side A stamped, Variant 3) Matrix / Runout: MPF - 1288 B A - 1 - 4 (Side B stamped, Variant 3) Matrix / Runout: MPF - 1288A A-1-2 B0 (Side A stamped, Variant 4) Matrix / Runout: MPF - 1288B A-1-2 (Side B stamped, Variant 4) Rights Society: JASRAC