Child in Time

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"Child in Time"
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Cover of the 1972 Belgium single
Song by Deep Purple
from the album Deep Purple in Rock
ReleasedJune 1970
Recorded1969–1970 at IBC Studios, London
Genre
Length10:18
LabelHarvest (UK)
Warner Bros. (US)
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Deep Purple

"Child in Time" is a song by the English rock band Deep Purple. Loosely inspired by the Cold War, it is featured on the band's 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock and runs for over 10 minutes.

History and characteristics[]

Deep Purple's Ian Gillan has said that "Child in Time" is based on It's a Beautiful Day's psychedelic song "Bombay Calling".[1] It's a Beautiful Day in return borrowed Purple's "Wring That Neck" and turned it into "Don and Dewey" on their second album Marrying Maiden (1970). The song started with organist Jon Lord playing "Bombay Calling", which the band then re-arranged and changed the structure. Gillan had never heard the original song, and created lyrics about the Cold War to fit the music, later saying it "reflected the mood of the moment". The band then worked out instrumental lines to accompany this.[1]

With themes of war and inhumanity, the song is regarded as a heavy metal anthem[2] and an example of art rock.[3]

A staple of the Deep Purple live concerts in 1970–73 and later after their initial reunion tours of 1985 and 1987–88, the song was not featured regularly at concerts after 1995. It was re-added to the setlist for the band's 2002 European tour, with its final appearance in Deep Purple's live set was at Kharkiv's Opera Theatre's scene in March of that year.[4]

A live version later appeared on the 1972 live album Made in Japan. Other live versions can be found on the Scandinavian Nights / Live in Stockholm live album, recorded in September 1970 and the BBC recordings released as Deep Purple In Concert. Gillan also featured a live jazz influenced version of the song in his Ian Gillan Band project of the late 1970s.[citation needed]

Accolades[]

"Child in Time" was ranked no. 1 on Radio Veronica's "Super All-Time List" in 1989.[5] The song ranked at no. 16 in Guitarist's 1998 readers poll of Top 100 Guitar Solos of All-Time.[6] English disc jockey John Peel's 1976 list of Festive Fifty featured the song at no. 25.[7] Placed second, third or fourth place most years on the annual Dutch Top 2000 songs of all time.[citation needed]

Covers and references in popular culture[]

  • Ian Gillan performed the song on his 1976 solo album Child in Time.
  • The song was covered by Yngwie Malmsteen on his 1996 album Inspiration.
  • Jon Lord's solo organ introduction was sampled by Big Audio Dynamite and used in the introduction to their song "Rush".
  • A portion of this song was featured in the 1996 films Twister, Breaking the Waves and in 23.
  • The song is used in the 1999 Academy Award winning documentary One Day in September, which is about the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. It plays during a rapid montage of the violent aftermath of the concluding airport shootout.
  • This song was used in the finale of Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour as Eddie and Richie begin traveling back in time to the dawn of time.
  • The song was covered by Cactus Jack on their 2003 album Deep Purple Tribute.
  • A new truncated version also appears on 2006 studio album The Village Lanterne by Blackmore's Night, titled "Mond Tanz / Child in Time".
  • A portion of this song was featured in the 2008 film Der Baader Meinhof Komplex.
  • A portion of this song was featured in the 2007 BBC television documentary The Secret Life of the Motorway, in the last programme of the 3 part series.[8]
  • The song was covered by Rata Blanca and Tarja in a show in Buenos Aires on 9 June 2009.[9]
  • The song is available as downloadable content for the music video game Rock Band 3.
  • The intro of this song was used as basis for the U.U. intro-version of the "Exterminate! (song)" performed by the German dancefloor project Snap!
  • The song was covered by the Japanese metal band in 2010 with a length of 7:59 minutes.
  • Anu Malik drew inspiration from this song for the opening and closing portions of Aisa Zakhm Diya from the Hindi film Akele Hum Akele Tum.[10]
  • The song is used for the Flowers By Kenzo commercial in France.
  • The song is prominently referenced in Sérotonine, a novel by french author Michel Houellebecq, released in 2019. At night two male characters (including the narrator), both drunk and desperate, listen repeatedly ("thirty or forty times") on a high-end vintage audio system (featuring huge Klipschorn speakers) to a 1970 bootleg recording of "Child in Time", from a concert in Duisburg ; the dramaturgy of the song is meticulously described, and the narrator recalls that night as "aesthetically ... the most beautiful moment in my life", the kind of which is recalled when one is about to die.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Kusnur, Narendra (3 May 2002). "Ian Gillan, Mumbai, India. 3 May 2002". Mid-Day. Retrieved 30 December 2006.
  2. ^ Jacqueline Edmondson Ph.D. (3 October 2013). Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories That Shaped Our Culture. ABC-CLIO. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-313-39348-8.
  3. ^ Pete Prown; HP Newquist (1997). Legends of Rock Guitar: The Essential Reference of Rock's Greatest Guitarists. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-7935-4042-6.
  4. ^ "Deep Purple Setlist at Opera House, Kharkiv". Setlist.fm. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Super All-Time List – From 1989". Rocklistmusic.co.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Rocklist.net...Guitar Lists..." Rocklistmusic.co.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Rocklist.net...John Peel's Festive 50's – 1977–2003". Rocklistmusic.co.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  8. ^ "BBC Four – The Secret Life of the Motorway, The End of the Affair". BBC. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  9. ^ "Metal from Finland: TARJA TURUNEN covers Deep Purple's "Child In Time"". Archived from the original on 14 January 2010. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  10. ^ "Chori se Chori se...when copied songs are as good as the original". Daily News and Analysis. Retrieved 14 September 2016.

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