Who Do We Think We Are

Who Do We Think We Are
Studio album by
Deep Purple
Released12 January 1973 (1973-01-12) (US)[1]
RecordedJuly 1972 in Rome, Italy and October 1972 in Frankfurt, West Germany, with the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio
Genre
Length34:47
LabelPurple
ProducerDeep Purple
Deep Purple chronology
Made in Japan
(1972) 		Who Do We Think We Are
(1973) 		Burn
(1974)
Singles from Who Do We Think We Are
  1. "Woman from Tokyo"
    Released: February 1973
  2. "Super Trouper"
    Released: November 1973 (EU)[3]

Who Do We Think We Are is the seventh studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple, released on 12 January 1973 in the US and in February 1973 in the UK.[4] It was Deep Purple's last album by the Mark II line-up with singer Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover until 1984’s Perfect Strangers.

Musically, the record showed a move to a more blues-based sound,[2] even featuring scat singing.[5] Although its production and the band's behaviour after its release showed the group in turmoil, with frontman Gillan remarking that "we'd all had major illnesses" and felt considerable fatigue, the album was a commercial success. Deep Purple became the top-selling U.S. artist in 1973.[2] The album featured the energetic hard-rock single "Woman from Tokyo," which while scarcely played during the 1970s, would become a live staple from the band's 1984 reunion onward.

  1. ^ Popoff, Martin (2016). The Deep Purple Family (2nd ed.). Wymer Publishing. p. 129. ISBN 978-1-908724-42-7.
  2. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference loudest was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Deep Purple singles".
  4. ^ "Great Rock discography". p. 209.
  5. ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Deep Purple - Who Do We Think We Are review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 5 March 2017.