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Title: Excellent retrospective musically, with bum liner notes
Review: I can't really add much to what has already been said in the other reviews here, with one exception. No one seems to have noticed that the liner notes in the accompanying booklet (which was otherwise nicely done with some great photos) gets all kinds of facts wrong. This is not mere nitpicking, as there are literally too many mistakes to list in this review. As Rhino needed to work with Simon Robinson (founder of the UK-based Deep Purple Appreciation Society and writer for all of DP's remastered album booklets) to get many of these tracks, one wonders why they didn't ask him to write the historical essay. Considering that this long-overdue boxed set is otherwise lavish and packed with tracks previously unavailable in the USA, the thoroughly misleading essay is a garish oversight.
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