SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY MADE IN JAPAN terza parte The band did not consider the album to be important and only Glover and Paice showed up to mix it. According to Birch, Gillan and Blackmore have never heard the finished album.[23] The band did not want the album to be released outside of Japan and wanted full rights to the tapes, but it was released worldwide anyway.[22] The album was released in the UK in December 1972, with a special offer price of £3.10, the same as a typical single LP from that period.[24] It reached number 16 in the charts. The cover was designed by Glover and featured a colour photo of the band on the front and rear covers, and black and white photos in the inside gatefold.[25] The release in the US was delayed, until April 1973, because Warner Bros. wanted to release Who Do We Think We Are first. They were motivated into releasing it due to a steady flow of UK imports being purchased,[21] and it was an immediate commercial success, reaching number 6 in the charts.[26] Warners also released Smoke on the Water as a single, coupling the live recording on Made in Japan with the studio version on Machine Head, and it reached number 4 in the Billboard charts.[11] A recording of Black Night from the Tokyo gig, one of the encores that was not on the album,[17] was released as the B-side to the single Woman from Tokyo in Europe, and as a single in its own right in Japan.[25] The Japanese release was titled Live in Japan and featured a unique sleeve design, with an overhead stage shot of the band, a selection of photographs from a gig at the Rainbow Theatre in London, and an insert with lyrics and a hand-written message from each band member.[27] The first pressing came with a 35mm film negative with photos of the band which buyers could develop into their own prints.[25] The sleeve notes claimed that the recording only contained the Tokyo gig, though in fact it was musically identical to the version released in the rest of the world.[25] Phil Collen, later to play in Def Leppard, was in the audience for the Rainbow gig as captured on the sleeve, and claims he can be seen on the cover.[28] In Uruguay, the album was released in 1974 as a single LP (with just the first two sides) on Odeon Records. It used a simplistic sleeve design unlike any other release, with a rising sun on the cover. youtu.be/rcdkhKZwvKI
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