What connects this song
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Released on Harvest, also Time (Pink Floyd), Money (Pink Floyd) and Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)
Engineered by Martin Birch, also The Trooper (Iron Maiden), Fear of the Dark (Iron Maiden) and The Number of the Beast (Iron Maiden)
Written by Roger Glover, also The Battle Rages On, Smoke on the Water and Love Is All (Roger Glover)
Part of Fireball, also Anyone’s Daughter, Demon’s Eye and Fireball
Worth knowing
Counted from cited credits on fono.
Martin Birch engineered 7 of Deep Purple’s top 10 songs
Martin Birch engineered 269 songs on fono
Alan O’Duffy engineered 96 songs on fono
Alan O’Duffy’s most frequent co-engineer is Alan McKenzie (50 songs together)
Credits
All 16 credits
- Written by
- Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore and Roger Glover
- Produced by
- Deep Purple
- Performed by
- Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore and Roger Glover
- Engineered by
- Alan O’Duffy, Louis Austin and Martin Birch
- Part of
- Fireball
- Released on
- Harvest
- Written by
- Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore and Roger Glover
- Produced by
- Deep Purple
- Performed by
- Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore and Roger Glover
- Engineered by
- Alan O’Duffy, Louis Austin and Martin Birch
- Part of
- Fireball
- Released on
- Harvest
Connected by credits
Other songs that share a producer, writer, studio or label with this one.
Same engineer: Martin Birch
Same writer: Roger Glover
Same engineer: Alan O’Duffy
Same label: Harvest
Same release: Fireball
Same engineer: Martin Birch
Same writer: Roger Glover
Same engineer: Alan O’Duffy
Elsewhere
Sources (17)
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1MusicBrainz Fools was performed by Ian Gillan
2MusicBrainz Fools was performed by Ian Paice
3MusicBrainz Fools was performed by Jon Lord
4MusicBrainz Fools was performed by Ritchie Blackmore
Fools was performed by Ritchie Blackmore
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
5MusicBrainz Fools was performed by Roger Glover
6MusicBrainz Fools was produced by Deep Purple
7MusicBrainz Fools was written by Ian Gillan
8MusicBrainz Fools was written by Ian Paice
9MusicBrainz Fools was written by Jon Lord
10MusicBrainz Fools was written by Ritchie Blackmore
11MusicBrainz Fools was written by Roger Glover
12MusicBrainz Fools is part of the release Fireball
13MusicBrainz Harvest is the label of the song Fools
14MusicBrainz Fools was engineered by Alan O’Duffy
15MusicBrainz Fools was engineered by Louis Austin
16MusicBrainz Fools was engineered by Martin Birch
17MusicBrainz Fools was released on 1971-08