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Tracklisting -1. Future Shock 2. Night Ride Out Of Phoe- nix 3. Ballad Of The Lucitania Express 4. No Laughing In Heaven 5. Sacre Bleau 6. New Orleans 7. Bite The Bullet 8. If I Sing Softly 9. Don’t Want The Truth 10. For Your Dreams

Future Shock is the fourth album by British rock legend Ian Gillan. Origi- nally released in March 1891 by Virgin Records, it reached number 2 in the UK charts and remains the band best selling album to date.
This classic album comes in a newly designed gatefold sleeve and is remastered from the original analogue tapes. Spread across two discs for the first time instead of the original single disc, the album runs at 45rpm offering a much better sonic quality than the original.
Each heavyweight 180g vinyl disc are packed in newly designed inner bags with brand new sleeve notes courtesy of the Deep Purple Appreciation Society (DPAS) and the Hardback Book features the specially commissioned Sci-Fi image from original. The album spawned two hit singles ‘New Orleans’ and ‘No Laughing In Heaven’.
The album title is taken from a book of the same name written by the futurist Alvin Toffer in 1970. In the book, Toffler defines the term “future shock” as a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies. His shortest definition for the term is a personal perception of “too much change in too short a period of time”. A somewhat fit- ting title considering the musical and personnel changes Ian Gillan had been through in the previous few years.
With his previous incarnation called the Ian Gillan Band, Ian had become dissatisfied with the jazz fusion direction the band seemed to have taken and promptly dissolved it, resurfacing as simply Gillan with only keyboard player ColinTowns remaining. He added Steve Bird on guitar, Liam Genocky on drums and John Mc Coy on bass. Genocky was later replaced by Pete Barnacle.
Caught up in the rise of the NWOBHM (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal) the band finally found their feet after their first label went belly up, by landing a multi million deal with Virgin Records. Riding high in the charts with the more fast and frenetic sound of Future Shock, Bernie Torme walked out just before the bank flew into the UK from Germany for that lucrative TOTP slot. Janick Gers the White Spirit guitarist who were supporting Gillan on tour, stepped into the breach and joined the band full time.