Deep Purple - Child in Time (1995 Remaster)

"Child in Time" is a song by English rock band Deep Purple, taken from their fourth studio album, Deep Purple in Rock, released in 1970.Ian Gillan said that the organ riff in "Child in Time" is based on It's a Beautiful Day's 1969 song "Bombay Callin.

Gillan is quoted as saying that the song was created "using the Cold War as the theme", adding "the words came easily because we were all aware of the nuclear threat looming over us at what was probably the height of the Cold War."

Artwork by Thomas Mueller