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Ian Gillan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 10, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Griffin Records
• ASIN: B000001LJ5
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #599,679 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Trouble

2. New Orleans

3. Fighting Man

4. Living for the City

5. Helter Skelter

6. Mr. Universe

7. Telephone Box

8. Dislocated

9. Sleeping on the Job

10. M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction)

11. No Laughing in Heaven

12. Nightmare

13. Restless

14. Purple Sky

15. Born to Kill [Live]

16. Smoke on the Water [Live]

Editorial Reviews

Best known as lead singer of the legendary supergroup Deep Purple, this Griffin Music compilation album contains 16 tracks from several Gillan albums and spans much of his solo career.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best singer of all time, March 13, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

This is a collection of Ian Gillan's solo career songs, not including his hits with Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. Being one of the most undervalued performers in rock music, Gillan's career started in 60's with Episode 6. His "star years" were definitely the beginning of 70's when he sang the lead role in the famous "Jesus Christ Superstar" simultaneously touring with Deep Purple. In 1973, shortly after recording his last album with Purple, Gillan leaves the band and stays away from music for a while. 1975 saw his new venture "Ian Gillan Band", which was a totally different experience than before. This time he performs some fusion of jazz and hard rock. Later on the name of the band changes to "Gillan" and so does the musical style. This is the period that is covered on this album.

The highlight of the disc is "Mr.Universe" and "Fighting man" from his 1979 album, heavy "Sleeping on the job", "MAD" and some later tracks like "Telephone Box" recorded with Roger Glover.

The album definitely points out the best years of Gillan's career, but generally I would not consider it a good overview of his earlier years.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent album, February 5, 2010

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This is an excellent album and a nice overview of the "Gillan" years but I do think the song "Born to Kill" is the studio version not the live version like it says on the back of the cd.