Child in Time is a song by rock band Deep Purple. A protest song against the Vietnam War, it is featured on the bands 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock and runs for over 10 minutes. Ian Gillan has said that Child in Time is based on Its a Beautiful Days psychedelic song Bombay Calling. Its a Beautiful Day in return borrowed Purples Wring That Neck and turned it into Don and Dewey on their second album Marrying Maiden (1970). As Ian Gillan put it in a 2002 interview, There are two sides to that song - the musical side and the lyrical side. On the musical side, there used to be this song Bombay Calling by a band called Its A Beautiful Day. It was fresh and original, when Jon was one day playing it on his keyboard. It sounded good, and we thought wed play around with it, change it a bit and do something new keeping that as a base. But then, I had never heard the original Bombay Calling. So we created this song using the Cold War as the theme, and wrote the lines Sweet child in time, youll see the line. Thats how the lyrical side came in. Then, Jon had the keyboard parts ready and Ritchie had the guitar parts ready. The song basically reflected the mood of the moment, and thats why it became so popular.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 22:00:00 +0000
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