Knocking at Your Back Door: The Best of Deep Purple in the 80's

Knocking at Your Back Door: The Best of Deep Purple in the 80's
Compilation album by Deep Purple
Released	April 1992[1]
Recorded	1984–1986–1987–1988
Genre	Hard rock, heavy metal
Length	64:49
Label	Mercury/PolyGram
Producer	Deep Purple
Deep Purple compilations chronology
The Anthology (1985) Knocking at Your Back Door: The Best of Deep Purple in the 80's (1992) Smoke on the Water: The Best Of (1994)

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Knocking at Your Back Door: The Best of Deep Purple in the 80's is a compilation album by the English hard rock band Deep Purple. The album was released in 1992.

It is a compilation of tracks from three albums, Perfect Strangers (1984), The House of Blue Light (1987), and the live album Nobody's Perfect (1988).

Track listing[edit]

All songs written by Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice, except where noted. "Son of Alerik" is replaced by a live version of "Child in Time" on the PolyGram US edition.

1. "Knocking at Your Back Door" – 7:02
2. "Bad Attitude" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord) – 5:07
3. "Son of Alerik" – 10:02
4. "Nobody's Home" – 4:00
5. "Black Night" (Live) – 6:07
6. "Perfect Strangers" – 5:19
7. "The Unwritten Law" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Paice) – 4:55
8. "Call of the Wild" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord) – 4:51
9. "Hush" (Live) (Joe South) – 3:31
10. "Smoke on the Water" (Live) – 7:43
11. "Space Truckin'" (Live) – 5:39

Personnel[edit]

• Ian Gillan – vocals
• Ritchie Blackmore – guitar
• Jon Lord – organ, keyboards
• Roger Glover – bass, synthesizer
• Ian Paice – drums

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