Recording
During this two-month tour, the band also set up their spare slots for some time to record at the De Lane Lea Studio in London. These songs were new material, but the band opted to re-record "The Bird Has Flown", which had already been released with "Emmaretta" in the US. They also shortened the name of it to "Bird Has Flown". The band chose to record it anew, because it was not properly developed for the album; again showing their desire to create solid original material. The new version was completed on March 18. Other songs on the album were recorded in a widespread time period over the course of February and March.
Word of Deep Purple's success in America had finally given some influence on their reputation in the UK, as they gradually rose in popularity and request. Music magazines begun printing articles on them, and their whole reputation grew considerably over the course of these two months. Jon Lord elaborated the previous difference in popularity the band had experienced between the US and the UK before, in this manner:
"We must be the only schizophrenic group in existence; if we go out and do a date in England we can earn 150 pounds. In the states, a similar date will earn us about 2500 pounds.
When a reporter asked Lord about why he thought Deep Purple was having such a hard time finding the big audience back home, he answered:
"Because we've had hits I think the British underground devotees tend to look down on us. Americans are so much more broad-minded about this business of having hit singles."
As such, a typical headline in an English music magazine in early 1969 would be something like: "They lose £2350 a night working in Britain".
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