Total Abandon: Australia '99

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{{Infobox album

| name = Total Abandon: Australia '99

| type = live

| artist = Deep Purple

| cover = Total Abandon.jpeg

| alt =

| released = September 1999

| recorded = 20 April 1999

| venue = Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia

| genre = Hard rock, heavy metal

| length = 116:07

| label =

• EMI/Thames Talent (Australia/Europe)
• Eagle (US)

| producer = Deep Purple

| chronology = Deep Purple live albums

| prev_title = Live at The Olympia '96

| prev_year = 1997

| next_title = In Concert with The London Symphony Orchestra

| next_year = 2000

}}

{{Infobox album

| name = Total Abandon: Australia '99

| type = video

| artist = Deep Purple

| cover = Total_Abandon_DVD.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1999

| recorded = 20 April 1999

| venue = Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia

| genre = Hard rock, heavy metal

| length = 3 hours, 20 minutes

| label = Eagle Rock Entertainment

| director = Henk Eykman

| producer = Darren Schneider, Drew Thompson

| prev_title = Live at Montreux 1996

| prev_year = 1996

| next_title = In Concert with The London Symphony Orchestra

| next_year = 2000

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/total-abandon-australia-99-mw0000454227 |title=Deep Purple – Total Abandon: Australia '99 review |last=Campbell |first=Al |work=AllMusic |publisher=All Media Network |access-date=16 February 2017 }}

| rev2 = AllMusic

| rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}} (DVD){{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/total-abandon-live-australia-1999-video-dvd-mw0001149437 |title=Deep Purple – Total Abandon: Australia '99 (Video/DVD) review |last=Phares |first=Heather |work=AllMusic |publisher=All Media Network |access-date=16 February 2017 }}

| rev3 = Goldmine

| rev3score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite magazine |url=http://www.goldminemag.com/reviews/album-review-of-deep-purples-total-abandon-australia-99 |title=Album review of Deep Purple's 'Total Abandon: Australia '99' |last=Prince |first=Patrick |magazine=Goldmine |date=7 December 2012 |access-date=2017-02-16 }}

| rev4 = PopMatters

| rev4score = {{Rating|6|10}}{{cite magazine |url=http://www.popmatters.com/review/159327-deep-purple-total-abandon-australia-99/ |title=Album review of Deep Purple's 'Total Abandon: Australia '99' |last=Maine |first=David | author-link=David Maine |magazine=PopMatters |date=13 June 2012 |access-date=2017-02-16 }}

| noprose = yes

}}

Total Abandon: Australia '99 is a double live album and DVD by English hard rock band Deep Purple, recorded at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia on 20 April 1999. When the album was released in September 1999, it was only available in Australia. From 12 October 1999, it was made available as mail-order merchandise in Europe. Later, it was also sold in music stores. In the USA, the album was not released until 2012; this edition was cut to only one disc.{{cite web |url=http://bravewords.com/news/deep-purple-total-abandon-australia-99-live-cd-coming-in-april |title=Deep Purple – Total Abandon: Australia '99 Live CD Coming in April |work=Bravewords.com |publisher=Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles |date=8 March 2012 |access-date=2017-02-16 }}

The album was accompanied in Australia by two collector edition singles: "Smoke on the Water" with a disc cut into the shape of the Australian continent, and "Black Night", which disc was manufactured in the shape of the DP logo.

The VHS/DVD was originally available only in Australia and as mail-order merchandise. It was released in the US on 16 May 2000.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255654/?ref_=rvi_tt |title=Deep Purple: Total Abandon – Australia '99 (2000) |website=IMDb |access-date=2017-02-16 }} It was re-released in Europe in 2003 with an additional documentary, A Band Down Under, which previously had been released only on VHS.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267286/?ref_=nv_sr_8 |title=Australia 99: A Band Downunder (1999) |website=IMDb |access-date=2017-02-16 }} The 1999 DVD edition of the album went platinum in Australia becoming Deep Purple's commercially most successful DVD/video release in that country.