Pictures of Home

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"Pictures of Home"
"Pictures of Home" cover
Song by Deep Purple
from the album Machine Head
Released March 1972
Recorded December 6 - 21, 1971
Montreux, Switzerland
Genre Hard Rock
Length 5:08
Label EMI (UK)
Warner Bros. Records (US)
Writer(s) Ian Gillan
Ritchie Blackmore
Roger Glover
Jon Lord
Ian Paice
Producer(s) Deep Purple
Machine Head track listing
"Maybe I'm a Leo"
(2)
"Pictures of Home"
(3)
"Never Before"
(4)

"Pictures of Home" is a song by the British rock group Deep Purple, from their 1972 album Machine Head. It begins with a drum introduction by Ian Paice and features a fast paced, driving guitar riff and bass line with several instrumental solos .

"Pictures of Home" is "probably" Jon Lord's favorite song from Machine Head. Blackmore says that he was inspired by a short wave radio channel, "probably from Bulgaria or Turkey" when writing the main riff. Ian Gillan's lyrics is a result of studio paranoia and home sickness.

Info from Machine Head Classic Albums series of documentary about the making of the album.

"Pictures of Home" is the only song from Machine Head not performed live on tour during 1972.


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