Vincent Price (song)
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| Single by Deep Purple | ||||||||||
| from the album Now What?! | ||||||||||
| B-side | First Sign of Madness | |||||||||
| Released | 7 June 2013 | |||||||||
| Genre | Progressive metal | |||||||||
| Length | 4:46 | |||||||||
| Label | Edel AG | |||||||||
| Writer(s) |
Don Airey Ian Gillan Roger Glover Steve Morse Ian Paice Bob Ezrin |
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| Producer(s) | Bob Ezrin | |||||||||
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"Vincent Price" is a song by British rock band Deep Purple. Featured on their 19th studio album, titled Now What?!, the track is both the second single from the album and the last track on it. The band confirmed the single's release on 6 May 2013, sending messages via their official webpage and Facebook account.
The song came out on the following day, being available as a digital download, as an expanded CD release, and as a seven-inch transparent vinyl record. The band created a music video for the track, their first official video as such in over twenty years, and it soon received distribution through various music related publications, Blabbermouth.net being an example. In terms of songwriting, all of the then current band-members (Don Airey, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Steve Morse, and Ian Paice) helped to compose the track alongside producer Bob Ezrin.
The progressive rock song is a tribute to the late classic horror movie icon Vincent Price, and it features sonic as well as lyrical references to numerous tropes associated with horror films such as dramatic sounds of thunder and mysterious wailing noises. All of the then current Deep Purple band-members (Don Airey, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Steve Morse, and Ian Paice) served as songwriters for the tune alongside producer Bob Ezrin.
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