DEEP PURPLE Bananas 1st Press 5910481 UK EMI 2003 * VERY RARE * MINT/MINT

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DEEP PURPLE Bananas 1st Press 5910481 UK EMI 2003 * VERY RARE * MINT/MINT:
$173.14

Matrix:
Side 1:591048-1-A1 (J.C. 03)Side 2:591048-1-B1 (J.C. 03)
Absolutely stunning and unmarked copy from my private collection.
Purchased upon its release by myself and stored amoungst my large Deep Purple collection. It remains unplayed!
Extremely rare and hard to find!
Please note that the Vinyl is unplayed and totally unmarked. The gatefold sleeve is also mint, however, the inner sleeve has two splits measuring 2\" and 3\". This is how the record arrived when I ordered it back in 2003.Bananas is the 17th studio album by Deep Purple, released on 9 September 2003 via EMI Records.
This is the first Deep Purple album to feature Don Airey on the keyboards, replacing founding member Jon Lord. The album was recorded in Los Angeles during January and February 2003. It is also notable as being the first Ian Gillan-fronted Deep Purple album to make use of backing vocals other than Gillan\'s own (since the 1972 sessions for the song Woman from Tokyo in Germany which featured Jon Lord and Roger Glover singing backup), with the song \"Haunted\" featuring Beth Hart. The album includes \"Contact Lost\", a short, slow instrumental about the Space Shuttle Columbia astronauts, written by guitarist Steve Morse when he heard the news of the crash.
Bananas charted well, despite lack of media exposure, especially in Europe and South America (notably at Germany and Argentina, where it peaked in the top