Live in Montreux 69
Live album by
Deep Purple
Released28 August 2006[1]
Recorded4 October 1969
Montreux, Switzerland
GenreHard rock
Heavy metal
Length90:01 (2CD)
LabelSonic Zoom PUR 257D
ProducerDeep Purple
Deep Purple live albums chronology
Live at Montreux 1996
(2006) 		Live in Montreux 69
(2006) 		Live in Denmark 1972
(2007)

Live in Montreux 69 is a live album by English rock band Deep Purple, recorded 4 October 1969 in Montreux, released in 2006. It was recorded in the Montreux Casino that burned down two years later.

It featured some of the first performances of "Speed King" and "Child in Time", which were released on Deep Purple in Rock eight months later. The live version of "Kentucky Woman" is the only known surviving MkII performance of the song.

Live in Montreux 69 was first issued as a limited edition digipak (Sonic Zoom PUR 207D) under the title Kneel & Pray in 2004.

Track listing

All songs written by Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice except where indicated.

Disc one
No.TitleLength
1."Speed King/Kneel & Pray"6:02
2."Hush" (Joe South)6:20
3."Child in Time"12:38
4."Wring That Neck" (Blackmore, Nick Simper, Lord, Paice)20:30
Disc two
No.TitleLength
1."Paint It Black" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)14:48
2."Mandrake Root" (Rod Evans, Blackmore, Lord)25:08
3."Kentucky Woman" (Neil Diamond)6:00

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Popoff, Martin (2018). The Deep Purple Family, vol 2 (2nd ed.). Wymer Publishing. p. 255. ISBN 978-1-908724-87-8.
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