Deep Purple (III) album cover (from Hieroynmous Bosch)

“April” is a song from the eponymous 3^rd studio album, Deep Purple, also referred to as Deep Purple III, by the English rock band Deep Purple, released in June 1969 on Tetragrammaton Records in the United States and only in September 1969 on Harvest Records in the United Kingdom. Its release was preceded by the single “Emmaretta” and by a long tour in the UK, whose dates were interspersed between the album’s recording sessions.

The music of this album is mostly original and a combination of progressive rock, hard rock and psychedelic rock, but with a harder edge and with the guitar parts in more evidence than in the past. This was due both to the growth of guitarist Ritchie Blackmore as a songwriter and to the conflicts within the band over the fusion of classical music and rock proposed by keyboard player Jon Lord and amply implemented in the band’s previous releases.

“April” was a tune written by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore about his birthday month before the recording sessions had begun; it was later augmented with a long middle section of classical music written by Lord, becoming the album’s 12-minute-plus final track and Deep Purple’s longest ever studio recording.  (The “rock part” starts at almost 9 minutes.)

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April

April is a cruel time
Even though the sun may shine
And world looks in the shade
As it slowly comes away
Still falls the April rain
And the valley's filled with pain
And you can't tell me quite why
As i look up to the grey sky
Where it should be blue
Grey sky where I should see you
Ask why, why it should be so
I'll cry, say that I don't know

Maybe once in a while I'll forget and I'll smile
But then the feeling comes again of an April without end
Of an April lonely as they come
In the dark of my mind I can see all too fine
But there is nothing to be done when I just can't feel the sun
And the springtime's the season of the night

Grey sky where it should be blue
Grey sky where I should see you
Ask why, why it should be so
I'll cry, say that I don't know
I don't know 

Written by: Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore
Album: Deep Purple
Released: 1969

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