CHILD IN TIME BY DEEP PURPLE 1969 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, PACIFIC COMMAND VIETNAM WAR

This video contains historical footage taking during the Vietnam War for educational and creative purposes. Music by Deep Purple, song Child in Time. Child in Time is a song by the English rock band Deep Purple. Loosely inspired by the Vietnam War, it is featured on the band s 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock History and characteristics Ian Gillan has said that Child in Time is based on It s a Beautiful Day s psychedelic song Bombay Calling. It s a Beautiful Day in return borrowed Purple s 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 It s A Beautiful Day. It was fresh and original when Jon was one day playing it on his keyboard. It sounded good, and we t