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Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 February 2015 The title track " Fireball" was released as a single, as was " Strange Kind of Woman", not from the album but recorded during the same sessions (although it replaced "Demon's Eye" on the US version of the album). "Strange Kind of Woman" became their second UK Top 10 single, reaching No. 8.
Within weeks of ''Fireball''s release, the band were already performing songs planned for the next album. One song (which later became " Highway Star") was performed at the first show of the ''Fireball'' tour, having been written on the bus to a show in Portsmouth, in answer to a journalist's question: "How do you go about writing songs?" On 24 October 1971 during the US leg of the Fireball tour, the band was set to play the 
In January 1972 the band returned to tour the US once again, then headed over to play Europe before resuming US dates in March. While in America Blackmore contracted hepatitis, and the band attempted one show in Flint, Michigan, without a guitarist before attempting to acquire the services of
The band hired Midlands bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes, formerly of 
Deep Purple Mark III's first album, ''
Mark III embarked on a spring tour that included shows at Madison Square Garden, New York, on 13 March, and Nassau Coliseum four days later. The band co-headlined (with
Following Blackmore's departure, the group considered disbanding but decided to continue and find another guitarist. 
The resulting album from Deep Purple Mark IV, '' Come Taste the Band'', was released in October 1975, one month before Bolin's ''Teaser'' album. Despite mixed reviews and middling sales (#19 in the UK and #43 in the US), the collection revitalised the band once again, bringing a new, extreme funk edge to their hard rock sound. Bolin's influence was crucial, and with encouragement from Hughes and Coverdale, the guitarist developed much of the album's material. Despite Bolin's talents, his personal problems with hard drugs began to surface. During the ''Come Taste the Band'' tour many fans openly booed Bolin's inability to play solos like Ritchie Blackmore, not realising that Bolin was physically hampered by his addiction. At this same time, as he admitted in interviews years later, Hughes was suffering from cocaine addiction.
The last show on the tour was on 15 March 1976 at the
Knocking on Heaven's Door: Rock Obituaries
p.42-43. Omnibus Press, 2006
The reunion tour followed, starting in Australia and winding its way across the world to North America, then into Europe by the following summer. Financially, the tour was also a tremendous success. In the US, the 1985 tour out-grossed every other artist except Bruce Springsteen. The UK homecoming saw the band perform a concert at Knebworth on 22 June 1985 (with main support from the
BBC News. Retrieved 2 March 2012 Ritchie Blackmore left Deep Purple for the second and final time, after a show in
The band played at the 
On 16 July 2012 the band's co-founding member and former organ player, Jon Lord, died in London, aged 71. In December 2012 Roger Glover stated that the band had completed work on 14 songs for a new studio album, with 11 or 12 tracks set to appear on the final album to be released in 2013. On 26 February 2013 the title of the band's nineteenth studio album was announced as '' Now What?!'', which was recorded and mixed in Nashville, Tennessee, and released on 26 April 2013. The album contains the track “
On 25 November 2016, Deep Purple announced ''
In March 2022, Morse announced that he had to take a hiatus from the band after his wife was diagnosed with cancer. The band, who had recently returned to live performances, continued touring with Simon McBride, formerly of Sweet Savage, standing in for Morse who at that point officially remained in the band. On 23 July 2022, it was announced that Morse would be leaving permanently in order to focus on caring for his wife as she battles cancer. Later that September, McBride was made an official member of the band.
In June 2022, Gillan announced that the band plans to work on their twenty-third studio album after the conclusion of the ''Whoosh!'' tour: "Deep Purple has got a writing session booked in March 2023, which I believe is to get started on thinking about our next record."
states they “made up the ‘unholy trinity’ of British hard rock and heavy metal during the genre's 1970s golden age.” The group have influenced a number of rock and metal bands including Metallica, Judas Priest,
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in
Chris Curtis Biography
Allmusic. Retrieved 12 December 2011 Lord convinced Nick Simper to join on bass, but Blackmore insisted they leave Carlo Little behind in favour of drummer Bobby Woodman. Woodman was the former drummer for
In May 1968, the band moved into Pye Studios in London's
The British Invasion: The Music, the Times, the Era
p.264. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 2009 The following month, Deep Purple were booked to support
Retrieved from YouTube "Ritchie Blackmore, Guitar God, Part 1/5" on 14 January 2014. Evans would go on to co-form the hard rock/progressive rock band Captain Beyond in 1971.
In search of a replacement vocalist, Blackmore set his own sights on 19-year-old singer 
The band gained some much-needed publicity in September 1969 with the ''
Shortly after the orchestral release, Mark II began a hectic touring and recording schedule that was to see little respite for the next four years. The second album, and first studio album, of the Mark II era, released in 1970, was '' In Rock'' (a name supported by the album's 
On the album's development, Blackmore stated: "I got fed up with playing with classical orchestras, and thought, 'well, this is my turn.' Jon was into more classical. I said, 'well you've done that, I'll do rock, and whatever turns out best we'll carry on with.'" ''In Rock'' performed well, especially in the UK where it reached No. 4, while the "Black Night" single reached No. 2 on the
's ''London
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in 1968. They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock music, but their musical style has changed over the course of its existence. Originally formed as a psychedelic and progressive rock
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band, they shifted to a heavier sound with their 1970 album ''Deep Purple in Rock
''Deep Purple in Rock'' is the fourth studio album by Deep Purple, released on 5 June 1970. It was the first studio album recorded by the Mark II line-up of Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice.
Work on ''In Rock ...
''. Deep Purple, together with Led Zeppelin
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and Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath were an English rock music, rock band formed in Birmingham in 1968 by guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward (musician), Bill Ward, bassist Geezer Butler and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. They are often cited as pioneers of heavy met ...
, have been referred to as the "unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal in the early to mid-seventies". They were listed in the 1975 ''Guinness Book of World Records'' as " the globe's loudest band" for a 1972 concert at London's Rainbow Theatre and have sold over 100 million records worldwide.
Deep Purple have had several line-up changes and an eight-year hiatus (1976–1984). The first four line-ups, which constituted the band's original 1968–1976 run, are officially indicated as Mark I (1968–1969), Mark II (1969–1973), Mark III (1973–1975) and Mark IV (1975–1976). Mark II was the most commercially successful line-up, with Ian Gillan
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(vocals) and Roger Glover
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(bass) joining Jon Lord
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(keyboards), Ian Paice
Ian Anderson Paice (born 29 June 1948) is an English musician, best known as the drummer and last remaining original member of the rock band Deep Purple.
He is often cited as one of the greatest drummers of all-time. He remains the only membe ...
(drums) and Ritchie Blackmore
Richard Hugh Blackmore (born 14 April 1945) is an English guitarist and songwriter. He was a founding member of Deep Purple in 1968, playing jam-style hard rock music that mixed guitar riffs and organ sounds. He is prolific in creating guita ...
(guitar), the latter three having been members of Mark I with Rod Evans
Roderic Evans (born 19 January 1947) is a British former singer.
In the late 1960s, he began his professional career in The Maze, formerly MI5, after which he was a member of the original Deep Purple line-up, who produced three studio albums ...
(vocals) and Nick Simper
Nicholas John Simper (born 3 November 1945) is an English bass guitarist, who was a co-founding member of Deep Purple and Warhorse. In the 1960s, he began his professional career in bands such as Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, The Flower Pot Me ...
(bass). Mark III saw David Coverdale (vocals) and Glenn Hughes (bass and vocals) replace Gillan and Glover, while Mark IV featured Tommy Bolin
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(guitar) replacing Blackmore. Mark II was revived from 1984–1989 and again from 1992–1993, with Joe Lynn Turner
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(vocals) replacing Gillan in the intervening 1989–1992 period. Mark II definitively ended in 1993, when Blackmore left Deep Purple for the second and final time. He was replaced temporarily by Joe Satriani
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(guitar) and then permanently by Steve Morse
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(guitar). In 2002 Don Airey (keyboards) replaced Lord, which saw Deep Purple settle into it's longest running line-up, unchanged for the next twenty years, until Morse announced his departure from the band in 2022. His place was taken by Simon McBride (guitar). Ian Paice, Roger Glover, Ian Gillan, Don Airey and Simon McBride comprise the current line-up of Deep Purple.
Deep Purple were ranked number 22 on VH1's ''Greatest Artists of Hard Rock'' programme, and a poll on radio station Planet Rock ranked them 5th among the "most influential bands ever". The band received the Legend Award at the 2008 World Music Awards
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. Deep Purple (specifically Blackmore, Lord, Paice, Gillan, Glover, Coverdale, Evans, and Hughes) were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016.
History
Beginnings (1967–1968)
In 1967, former Searchers drummer Chris Curtis contacted London businessman Tony Edwards, in the hope he would manage a new group he was putting together, to be called Roundabout. Curtis' vision was a "supergroup" where the band members would get on and off, like a musical roundabout. Impressed with the plan, Edwards agreed to finance the venture with his two business partners John Coletta and Ron Hire, who comprised Hire-Edwards-Coletta Enterprises (HEC). The first recruit to the band was classically trained Hammond organ playerJon Lord
John Douglas Lord (9 June 194116 July 2012) was an English orchestral and rock composer, pianist, and Hammond organ player known for his pioneering work in fusing rock with classical or baroque forms, especially with the British rock band Deep ...
, Curtis's flatmate, who had most notably played with the Artwoods (led by Art Wood
Arthur Wood (7 July 1937 – 3 November 2006) was a British blues, pop and rock singer, who led The Artwoods in the 1960s and subsequently became a graphic artist. He was the brother of Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones.
Life
Born in 193 ...
, brother of future Faces
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and Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood
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Wood began his career in 1964, playing guitar with a ...
, and including Keef Hartley
Keith "Keef" Hartley (8 April 1944 – 26 November 2011)
was an English drummer and bandleader. He fronted his own band ...
). Lord was then performing in a backing band for the vocal group was an English drummer and bandleader. He fronted his own band ...
The Flower Pot Men
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(formerly known as the Ivy League), along with bassist Nick Simper
Nicholas John Simper (born 3 November 1945) is an English bass guitarist, who was a co-founding member of Deep Purple and Warhorse. In the 1960s, he began his professional career in bands such as Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, The Flower Pot Me ...
and drummer Carlo Little
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. (Simper had previously been in Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, and survived the 1966 car crash that killed Kidd.) Lord alerted the two that he had been recruited for the Roundabout project, after which Simper and Little suggested guitarist Ritchie Blackmore
Richard Hugh Blackmore (born 14 April 1945) is an English guitarist and songwriter. He was a founding member of Deep Purple in 1968, playing jam-style hard rock music that mixed guitar riffs and organ sounds. He is prolific in creating guita ...
, whom Lord had never met. Simper had known Blackmore since the early 1960s when his first band, the Renegades, debuted around the same time as one of Blackmore's early bands, the Dominators.
HEC persuaded Blackmore to travel in from Hamburg
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to audition for the new group. He was making a name for himself as a studio session guitarist, and had also been a member of the Outlaws, Screaming Lord Sutch, and Neil Christian
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Related session musicians
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* Jimmy Page
*Ritchie Blackmore
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*Albert Lee
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, the latter artist prompting Blackmore's move to Germany. Curtis's erratic behaviour and lifestyle, fuelled by his use of LSD
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, caused him to display a sudden lack of interest in the project he had started, forcing HEC to dismiss him from Roundabout. However, HEC was now intrigued with the possibilities Lord and Blackmore brought and persuaded Ritchie to return from Hamburg a second time. Lord and Blackmore began the recruitment of additional members, retaining Tony Edwards as their manager. Thompson, DaveChris Curtis Biography
Allmusic. Retrieved 12 December 2011 Lord convinced Nick Simper to join on bass, but Blackmore insisted they leave Carlo Little behind in favour of drummer Bobby Woodman. Woodman was the former drummer for
Vince Taylor
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's Play-Boys (for whom he had played under the name Bobbie Clarke). The band, still calling themselves Roundabout, started rehearsing and writing in Cadogan Gardens in South Kensington.
In March 1968, Lord, Blackmore, Simper and Woodman moved into Deeves Hall, a country house in South Mimms
South Mimms is a village and civil parish in the Hertsmere district of Hertfordshire in the East of England. It is a small settlement located near to the junction of the M25 motorway with the A1(M) motorway and is perhaps more widely known because ...
, Hertfordshire. The band would live, write and rehearse at the house; it was fully kitted out with the latest Marshall amplification and, at Lord's request, a Hammond C3 organ. According to Simper, "dozens" of singers were auditioned (including Rod Stewart and Woodman's friend Dave Curtiss) until the group heard Rod Evans
Roderic Evans (born 19 January 1947) is a British former singer.
In the late 1960s, he began his professional career in The Maze, formerly MI5, after which he was a member of the original Deep Purple line-up, who produced three studio albums ...
of club band the Maze, and thought his voice fitted their style well. Tagging along with Evans was his band's drummer Ian Paice
Ian Anderson Paice (born 29 June 1948) is an English musician, best known as the drummer and last remaining original member of the rock band Deep Purple.
He is often cited as one of the greatest drummers of all-time. He remains the only membe ...
. Blackmore had seen an 18-year-old Paice on tour with the Maze in Germany in 1966, and had been impressed by his drumming. The band hastily arranged an audition for Paice, given that Woodman was vocally unhappy with the direction of the band's music. Both Paice and Evans won their respective jobs, and the line-up was complete.Welch, Chris. "The Story of Deep Purple." In ''Deep Purple: HM Photo Book'', copyright 1983, Omnibus Press.
During a brief tour of Denmark and Sweden in April, in which they were still billed as Roundabout, Blackmore suggested a new name: " Deep Purple", named after his grandmother's favourite song. The group had resolved to choose a name after everyone had posted one on a board in rehearsal. Second to Deep Purple was "Concrete God", which the band thought was too harsh to take on.
Mark I (1968–1969): ''Shades of Deep Purple, The Book of Taliesyn'' and ''Deep Purple''
In May 1968, the band moved into Pye Studios in London's Marble Arch
The Marble Arch is a 19th-century white marble-faced triumphal arch in London, England. The structure was designed by John Nash in 1827 to be the state entrance to the cour d'honneur of Buckingham Palace; it stood near the site of what is toda ...
to record their debut album, ''Shades of Deep Purple
''Shades of Deep Purple'' is the debut studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple, released in July 1968 on Tetragrammaton in the United States and in September 1968 on Parlophone in the United Kingdom. The band, initially called Round ...
'', which was released in July by American label Tetragrammaton
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, and in September by UK label EMI
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.Thompson, Dave (2004). "Smoke on the Water: The Deep Purple Story" pp.41–42. ECW Press. Retrieved 19 February 2012 Deep Purple's early sound was a blend of psychedelic and hard rock, with Lord often bringing a classical influence to the song structures. Vanilla Fudge
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The band's original line–up—vocalist ...
was a notable influence on the band, Lord and Blackmore even claiming that, when the group started, they wanted to be a "Vanilla Fudge clone". The group had success in North America with Joe South
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's "Hush
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", and by September 1968, the song had reached number 4 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in the US and number 2 in the Canadian ''RPM
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'' chart, pushing the ''Shades'' LP up to No. 24 on ''Billboard''s pop albums chart.Miles, Barry (2009The British Invasion: The Music, the Times, the Era
p.264. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 2009 The following month, Deep Purple were booked to support
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on the US leg of their ''Goodbye
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'' tour.
The band's second album, ''The Book of Taliesyn
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'', was quickly recorded, then released in North America in October 1968 to coincide with the tour. The album included Neil Diamond's "Kentucky Woman
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", which cracked the Top 40 in both the US (No. 38 on the ''Billboard'' chart) and Canada (No. 21 on the ''RPM
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'' chart), though sales for the album were not as strong (No. 54 in US, No. 48 in Canada). ''The Book of Taliesyn'' would not be released in the band's home country until the following year and, like its predecessor, it failed to have much impact in the UK Albums Chart
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.
Early in 1969, the band released the non-album single "Emmaretta", named after Emmaretta Marks, then a cast member of the musical '' Hair'', whom Evans was trying to seduce. By March of that year, the band had completed recording for their third album, '' Deep Purple''. The album included the track "April", which featured strings and woodwind, showcasing Lord's classical antecedents such as Bach
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and Rimsky-Korsakov
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. This would be the last recording by Deep Purple Mark I.
Deep Purple's North American record label, Tetragrammaton, delayed production of the ''Deep Purple'' album until after the band's 1969 American tour ended. This, as well as lackluster promotion by the nearly broke label, caused the album to sell poorly, finishing well out of the ''Billboard'' Top 100. Soon after ''Deep Purple'' was finally released in late June 1969, Tetragrammaton went out of business, leaving the band with no money and an uncertain future (Tetragrammaton's assets were eventually assumed by Warner Bros. Records
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, who would release Deep Purple's records in the US throughout the 1970s).
During the 1969 American tour, Lord and Blackmore met with Paice to discuss their desire to progress the heavy rock side of the band further. Having decided that Evans and Simper would not fit well with the style they envisioned, both were replaced that summer. Paice stated, "A change had to come. If they hadn't left, the band would have totally disintegrated." Both Simper and Blackmore noted that Rod Evans already had one foot out of the door. Simper said that Evans had met a girl in Hollywood and had eyes on being an actor, while Blackmore explained, "Rod just wanted to go to America and live in America." Steve Rosen Interview with Ritchie Blackmore, 1974Retrieved from YouTube "Ritchie Blackmore, Guitar God, Part 1/5" on 14 January 2014. Evans would go on to co-form the hard rock/progressive rock band Captain Beyond in 1971.
Mark II (1969–1973): ''Concerto for Group and Orchestra, In Rock, Fireball, Machine Head,'' ''Made in Japan'' and ''Who Do We Think We Are''
In search of a replacement vocalist, Blackmore set his own sights on 19-year-old singer Terry Reid
Terrance James Reid (born 13 November 1949) is an English rock vocalist and guitarist. He has performed with high-profile musicians, as a supporting act, session musician, and sideman.
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. Though he found the offer "flattering", Reid was still bound by an exclusive recording contract with his producer Mickie Most and more interested in his solo career. Blackmore had no other choice but to look elsewhere. The band sought out singer Ian Gillan
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from Episode Six
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, a band that had released several singles in the UK without achieving any great commercial success. Six's drummer Mick Underwood
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– an old comrade of Blackmore's from his days in the Outlaws – introduced the band to Gillan and bassist Roger Glover
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. According to Nick Simper, "Gillan would join only with Roger Glover." This effectively killed Episode Six, which gave Underwood a persistent feeling of guilt that lasted nearly a decade, until Gillan recruited him for his new post-Purple band in the late 1970s. According to Blackmore, Deep Purple was only interested in Gillan and not Glover, but Glover was retained on the advice of Ian Paice.
This created Deep Purple Mark II, whose first release was a Roger Greenaway
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- Roger Cook tune titled "Hallelujah
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". At the time of its recording, Nick Simper still thought he was in the band and had called John Coletta to inquire about the recording dates for the song. He then found that the song had already been recorded with Glover on bass. The remaining original members of Deep Purple then instructed management to inform Simper that he had been officially replaced. Despite television appearances to promote the "Hallelujah" single in the UK, the song flopped. Blackmore had told the British weekly music newspaper ''Record Mirror
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'' that the band "need to have a commercial record in Britain", and described the song as "an in-between sort of thing"—a compromise between the type of material the band would normally record, and openly commercial material.Bloom, Jerry (2008). "Black Knight: Ritchie Blackmore" p.128. Omnibus Press, 2008
The band gained some much-needed publicity in September 1969 with the ''Concerto for Group and Orchestra
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'', a three-movement epic composed by Lord as a solo project and performed by the band at the Royal Albert Hall in London with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Arnold
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. Alongside ''Days of Future Passed
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'' by the Moody Blues
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and '' Five Bridges'' by the Nice
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The group was formed in 1967 by Emerson, Lee Jack ...
, it was one of the first collaborations between a rock band and an orchestra. This live album became their first release with any kind of chart success in the UK. Gillan and Blackmore were less than happy at the band being tagged as "a group who played with orchestras", both feeling that the ''Concerto'' was a distraction that would get in the way of developing their desired hard-rocking style. Lord acknowledged that while the band members were not keen on the project going in, at the end of the performance "you could have put the five smiles together and spanned the Thames." Lord would also write the ''Gemini Suite
After the 1969 classical / rock fusion ''Concerto for Group and Orchestra'', Jon Lord was commissioned to write a follow-up. This was ''Gemini Suite'', five long movements inspired by the members of Deep Purple, and performed live in September 19 ...
'', another orchestra/group collaboration in the same vein, for the band in late 1970, although the band's recording of the piece wouldn't be released until 1993. In 1975, Blackmore stated that he thought the ''Concerto for Group and Orchestra'' wasn't bad but the ''Gemini Suite'' was horrible and very disjointed. Roger Glover later claimed Jon Lord had appeared to be the leader of the band in the early years.
Shortly after the orchestral release, Mark II began a hectic touring and recording schedule that was to see little respite for the next four years. The second album, and first studio album, of the Mark II era, released in 1970, was '' In Rock'' (a name supported by the album's Mount Rushmore
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-inspired cover), which contained the then-concert staples "Speed King
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Work on ''In Rock ...
", "Into The Fire" and " Child in Time". The non-album single "Black Night
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", released around the same time, finally put Deep Purple into the UK Top Ten.Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums
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. London: Guinness World Records Limited The interplay between Blackmore's guitar and Lord's distorted organ, coupled with Gillan's powerful, wide-ranging vocals and the rhythm section of Glover and Paice, now started to take on a unique identity that separated the band from its earlier albums.Charlton, Katherine (2003). ''Rock Music Styles: A History''. p. 241. McGraw Hill. Along with Zeppelin's ''Led Zeppelin II
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'' and Sabbath's ''Paranoid
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'', ''In Rock'' codified the budding heavy metal genre.
On the album's development, Blackmore stated: "I got fed up with playing with classical orchestras, and thought, 'well, this is my turn.' Jon was into more classical. I said, 'well you've done that, I'll do rock, and whatever turns out best we'll carry on with.'" ''In Rock'' performed well, especially in the UK where it reached No. 4, while the "Black Night" single reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart
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''. In addition to increasing sales in the UK, the band were making a name for themselves as a live act, particularly with regard to the sheer volume of their shows and the improvisational skills of Blackmore and Lord. Said Lord, "We took from jazz, we took from old fashioned rock and roll, we took from the classics. Ritchie and myself...used to swap musical jokes and attacks. He would play something, and I'd have to see if I could match it. That provided a sense of humour, a sense of tension to the band, a sense of, 'what the hell's going to happen next?' The audience didn't know, and nine times out of ten, neither did we!"
A second Mark II studio album, the creatively progressive '' Fireball'', was issued in the summer of 1971, reaching number 1 on the UK Albums Chart
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."Deep Purple: UK Charts"Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 February 2015 The title track " Fireball" was released as a single, as was " Strange Kind of Woman", not from the album but recorded during the same sessions (although it replaced "Demon's Eye" on the US version of the album). "Strange Kind of Woman" became their second UK Top 10 single, reaching No. 8.
Within weeks of ''Fireball''s release, the band were already performing songs planned for the next album. One song (which later became " Highway Star") was performed at the first show of the ''Fireball'' tour, having been written on the bus to a show in Portsmouth, in answer to a journalist's question: "How do you go about writing songs?" On 24 October 1971 during the US leg of the Fireball tour, the band was set to play the Auditorium Theatre
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in Chicago when Ian Gillan contracted hepatitis
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, forcing the band to play without him, with bassist Glover singing the set. After this, the rest of the US dates were canceled and the band flew home.
In early December 1971, the band travelled to Switzerland to record ''Machine Head
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''. The album was due to be recorded at the Montreux Casino
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using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio
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, but a fire during a Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
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concert, caused by a man firing a flare gun into the ceiling, burned down the Casino. This incident famously inspired the song "Smoke on the Water
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". The album was later recorded in a corridor at the nearby empty Grand Hôtel de Territet, with the exception of the music track to "Smoke on the Water". That was recorded at a vacant theatre called The Pavillon before the band was asked to leave. On recording "Smoke on the Water", Blackmore stated to BBC Radio 2: “We did the whole thing in about four takes because we had to. The police were banging on the door. We knew it was the police, but we had such a good sound in this hall. We were waking up all the neighbours for about five miles in Montreux, because it was echo-ing through the mountains. I was just getting the last part of the riff down, we'd just finished it, when the police burst in and said 'you've got to stop'. We had the track down."
Continuing to progress the musical direction of the previous two albums, ''Machine Head'' was released in late March 1972 and became one of the band's most famous releases. It was the band's second No. 1 album in the UK while re-establishing them in North America, hitting No. 7 in the US and No. 1 in Canada. It included tracks that became live classics, such as "Highway Star", "Space Truckin'
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Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore claims in '' Classic Albums: Deep Purple – The ...
", " Lazy" and "Smoke on the Water", the last of which remains Deep Purple's most famous song. They continued to tour and record at a rate that would be rare thirty years on; when ''Machine Head'' was recorded, the group had only been together three-and-a-half years, yet it was their sixth studio album and seventh album overall.
In January 1972 the band returned to tour the US once again, then headed over to play Europe before resuming US dates in March. While in America Blackmore contracted hepatitis, and the band attempted one show in Flint, Michigan, without a guitarist before attempting to acquire the services of Al Kooper
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, who rehearsed with the band before bowing out, suggesting Spirit
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guitarist Randy California
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instead. California played one show with the group, in Quebec City
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, Quebec
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on 6 April, but the rest of this tour was cancelled as well.
The band returned to the US in late May 1972 to undertake their third North America tour (of four total that year). A Japan tour in August of that year led to a double live album, '' Made in Japan''. Originally intended as a Japan-only release, its worldwide release became an instant hit, reaching platinum status in five countries, including the US. It remains one of rock music's most popular and highest selling live albums.
Mark II continued to work and released the album ''Who Do We Think We Are
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'' in 1973. Spawning the hit single "Woman from Tokyo
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", the album hit No. 4 in the UK charts and No. 15 in the US chart, while achieving gold record status faster than any Deep Purple album released up to that time. But internal tensions and exhaustion were more noticeable than ever. Following the successes of ''Machine Head'' and ''Made in Japan'', the addition of ''Who Do We Think We Are'' made Deep Purple the top-selling artists of 1973 in the US.
Gillan admitted in a 1984 interview that the band was pushed by management to complete the ''Who Do We Think We Are'' album on time and go on tour, although they badly needed a break. The bad feelings, including tensions with Blackmore, culminated in Gillan quitting the band after their second tour of Japan in the summer of 1973, followed by the dismissal of Glover, at Blackmore's insistence. In interviews later, Lord called the end of Mark II while the band was at its peak "the biggest shame in rock and roll; God knows what we would have done over the next three or four years. We were writing so well."
Mark III (1973–1975): ''Burn'' and ''Stormbringer''
The band hired Midlands bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes, formerly of Trapeze
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. According to Paice, Glover told him and Lord a few months before his official termination that he wanted to leave the band, so they had started to drop in on Trapeze shows. After acquiring Hughes, they debated continuing as a four-piece, with Hughes as bassist and lead vocalist. According to Hughes, he was told the band was bringing in Paul Rodgers of Free as a co-lead vocalist, but by that time Rodgers had just started Bad Company
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. "They did ask", Rodgers recalled, "and I spoke to all of them at length about the possibility. Purple had toured Australia with Free's final lineup. I didn't do it because I was very much into the idea of forming Bad Company." Instead, auditions were held for lead vocal replacements. They settled on David Coverdale, an unknown singer from Saltburn
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in north-east England, primarily because Blackmore liked his masculine, blues-tinged voice.
Deep Purple Mark III's first album, ''Burn
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'', released in February 1974, was highly successful, reaching No. 3 in the UK and No. 9 in the US, and was followed by another world tour. The title track
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, which opens the album and would open most concerts during the Mark III and IV eras, was a conscious effort by the band to embrace the progressive rock movement, which was popularised at the time by bands such as Yes, King Crimson
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, Emerson, Lake & Palmer
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, Genesis
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and Gentle Giant
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.
Mark III embarked on a spring tour that included shows at Madison Square Garden, New York, on 13 March, and Nassau Coliseum four days later. The band co-headlined (with Emerson, Lake & Palmer
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) the California Jam
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festival at Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario
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, southern California, on 6 April 1974. Attracting over 250,000 fans, the festival also included 1970s rock giants Black Sabbath
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, Eagles
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and Earth, Wind & Fire
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. Portions of the show were telecast on ABC
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Television in the US, exposing the band to a wider audience. During the show Blackmore, accidently, blew up the stage, when his intention to set fire to his amplifiers, for visual effect, didn't go according to plan, although he was still pleased with the result. A month later, the band's 22 May performance at the Gaumont State Cinema
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in Kilburn, London, was recorded and later released in 1982 as '' Live in London''.
Hughes and Coverdale brought vocal harmonies and elements of funk and blues, respectively, to the band's music, a sound that was even more apparent on the late 1974 release ''Stormbringer
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''. Along with the title track, the ''Stormbringer'' album had a number of songs that received much radio play, such as "Lady Double Dealer", "The Gypsy" and "Soldier of Fortune", and the album reached No. 6 in the UK and No. 20 on the US ''Billboard'' chart. Blackmore publicly disliked most of the album, however, particularly it's funk and soul elements, derisively calling it "shoeshine music". A new live album, ''Made in Europe
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''Made in Europe'' feat ...
'', culled from three shows on the ''Stormbringer'' tour, was assembled during the summer of 1975, but wouldn't see release until late 1976. Blackmore left the band on 21 June 1975 to form his own band with Ronnie James Dio of Elf
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, called Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
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, shortened to Rainbow after the first album.
Mark IV (1975–1976): ''Come Taste the Band''
Following Blackmore's departure, the group considered disbanding but decided to continue and find another guitarist. Clem Clempson
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(Colosseum
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, Humble Pie), Zal Cleminson
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(The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
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), Mick Ronson
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(The Spiders From Mars
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) and Rory Gallagher
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were considered, and the final choice was American Tommy Bolin
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. There are at least two versions of the Bolin recruitment story: Coverdale claims to have been the one who suggested auditioning Bolin. "He walked in, thin as a rake, his hair coloured green, yellow and blue with feathers in it. Slinking along beside him was this stunning Hawaiian girl in a crochet dress with nothing on underneath. He plugged into four Marshall
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100-watt stacks and...the job was his." But in an interview published by '' Melody Maker'' in June 1975, Bolin claimed that he came to the audition following a recommendation from Blackmore. Bolin had been a member of many late-1960s bands – Denny & The Triumphs, American Standard, and Zephyr, which released three albums from 1969 to 1972. Before he joined Deep Purple, Bolin's best-known recordings had been made as a session musician on Billy Cobham
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's 1973 jazz fusion album ''Spectrum
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'', and as lead guitarist on two post-Joe Walsh
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James Gang
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albums: ''Bang
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'' (1973) and ''Miami
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'' (1974). He had also played with Dr. John
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, Albert King
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, the Good Rats
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, Moxy Moxy may refer to:
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and Alphonse Mouzon
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, and was busy working on his first solo album, '' Teaser'', when he accepted the invitation to join Deep Purple.
The resulting album from Deep Purple Mark IV, '' Come Taste the Band'', was released in October 1975, one month before Bolin's ''Teaser'' album. Despite mixed reviews and middling sales (#19 in the UK and #43 in the US), the collection revitalised the band once again, bringing a new, extreme funk edge to their hard rock sound. Bolin's influence was crucial, and with encouragement from Hughes and Coverdale, the guitarist developed much of the album's material. Despite Bolin's talents, his personal problems with hard drugs began to surface. During the ''Come Taste the Band'' tour many fans openly booed Bolin's inability to play solos like Ritchie Blackmore, not realising that Bolin was physically hampered by his addiction. At this same time, as he admitted in interviews years later, Hughes was suffering from cocaine addiction.
The last show on the tour was on 15 March 1976 at the Liverpool Empire Theatre
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. The break-up was finally made public in July 1976, with then-manager Rob Cooksey issuing a statement: "the band will not record or perform together as Deep Purple again". Bolin went on to record his second solo album, '' Private Eyes''. On 4 December 1976, after a show in Miami supporting Jeff Beck, Bolin was found unconscious by his girlfriend and bandmates. Unable to wake him, she hurriedly called paramedics, but it was too late. The official cause of death was multiple-drug intoxication. Bolin was 25 years old.Nick Talevski (2006)Knocking on Heaven's Door: Rock Obituaries
p.42-43. Omnibus Press, 2006
Band split (1976–1984)
After the break-up, most of the members of Deep Purple went on to have considerable success in a number of other bands, includingRainbow
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(1975–1984, Ritchie Blackmore and, from 1979, Roger Glover), Whitesnake
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(1978–present, David Coverdale, Jon Lord until 1984 and Ian Paice from 1980–1982) and Gillan (1978–1982, Ian Gillan). Ian Gillan also joined Black Sabbath
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from the end of 1982 to the beginning of 1984 (Glenn Hughes would also join Sabbath for a short time later in the 1980s). The now-defunct Deep Purple began to gain a type of mystical status, with fan-driven reissues and newly assembled live and compilation albums being released throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s. This fueled a number of promoter-led attempts to get the band to reform, especially with the revival of the hard rock market in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1980, a touring version of the band surfaced with Rod Evans (who had left Captain Beyond at the end of 1973) as the only member who had ever been in Deep Purple, eventually ending in successful legal action from the legitimate Deep Purple camp over unauthorised use of the name. Evans was ordered to pay damages of US$672,000 for using the band name without permission.
Mark II reunion (1984–1989): ''Perfect Strangers'' and ''The House of Blue Light''
Mark II at the Cow Palace, San Francisco, 1985. Pictured left to right: Glover, Gillan, Paice, Blackmore (not pictured: Lord). In April 1984, eight years after the demise of Deep Purple, a full-scale (and legal) reunion took place with the "classic" Mark II line-up of 1969–1973: Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan and Roger Glover. The reformed band signed a worldwide deal with PolyGram, with.jpg.html){kind=link}
Mercury Records
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releasing their albums in the US, and Polydor Records
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in the UK and other countries. The album '' Perfect Strangers'' was recorded in Vermont
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and released in October 1984. The album was commercially successful, reaching number 5 in the UK Albums Chart
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and number 12 on the ''Billboard'' 200 in the US. The album included the singles and concert staples "Knockin' At Your Back Door" and " Perfect Strangers". ''Perfect Strangers'' became the second Deep Purple album to go platinum in the US, following ''Machine Head'' (''Made in Japan'' would also finally hit platinum status in the US in 1986, the same year ''Machine Head'' increased to double platinum).
The reunion tour followed, starting in Australia and winding its way across the world to North America, then into Europe by the following summer. Financially, the tour was also a tremendous success. In the US, the 1985 tour out-grossed every other artist except Bruce Springsteen. The UK homecoming saw the band perform a concert at Knebworth on 22 June 1985 (with main support from the Scorpions
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; also on the bill were UFO
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and Meat Loaf
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), where the weather was bad (torrential rain and of mud) in front of 80,000 fans. The gig was called the "Return of the Knebworth Fayre".
Mark II followed ''Perfect Strangers'' with '' The House of Blue Light'' in 1987, which was supported by another world tour (interrupted after Blackmore broke a finger on stage while trying to catch his guitar after throwing it in the air). A new live album '' Nobody's Perfect'', which was culled from several shows on this tour, was released in 1988. In the UK a new Mark II version of "Hush" was also released in 1988 to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Deep Purple.
Mark V (1989–1992): ''Slaves and Masters''
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, Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Paice, Roger Glover.
Gillan was fired in 1989; his relations with Blackmore had again soured, and their musical differences had diverged too far. Originally, the band intended to recruit Survivor (band), Survivor frontman Jimi Jamison
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as Gillan's replacement. After two weeks of sessions with the band, however, Jamison announced he could not join Deep Purple owing to complications with Scotti Brothers Records
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, his record label. Eventually, after auditioning several high-profile candidates, including Brian Howe ( White Spirit, Ted Nugent
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, Bad Company
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), Doug Pinnick
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(King's X
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), Australians Jimmy Barnes
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(Cold Chisel
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) and John Farnham (Little River Band
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), Terry Brock (Strangeways, Giant
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) and Norman "Kal" Swan ( Tytan, Lion, Bad Moon Rising
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),the band agreed on Joe Lynn Turner
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, who had previously been a member of Rainbow with Blackmore and Glover. This Mark V line-up recorded just one album, '' Slaves and Masters'' (1990), and undertook a world tour for most of 1991. The album achieved modest success, reaching number 45 in the UK and number 87 in the US ''Billboard'' chart,with some fans and critics feeling the music was closer in style to Rainbow than to Deep Purple.
Second Mark II reunion (1992–1993) and Mark VI (1993–1994): ''The Battle Rages On...''
With the tour complete, the band set to work on another album, the early sessions of which saw Turner being forced out. 1993 would be Deep Purple's twenty-fifth anniversary year, with Lord, Paice and Glover (and the record company) wanting Gillan back for another Mark II reunion to celebrate this milestone. Although Blackmore prefered Turner to remain in the group, he eventually, grudgingly, relented, after requesting and eventually receiving 250,000 dollars in his bank account and Mark II completed the aptly-titled '' The Battle Rages On...'' in 1993. Despite going ahead with another reunion, Blackmore still publicly disagreed with the decision, which led to a new level of, very public, tension between himself and the rest of the band, particularly Gillan. Of particular contention was that Gillan reworked much of the existing material which had been written with Turner for the new album. Blackmore felt Gillan's rewrites made the songs less melodic than they had been in their original versions. The band began a European tour, which was documented on the live album ''Come Hell or High Water
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'', released in 1994. A live home video of the same name was also released, covering a show in Birmingham, England
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, with an album of the complete show being released in 2006 as ''Live at the NEC'', but this latter release was quicky withdrawn after Gillan publicly complained, feeling it represented a bad time in the groups history: "It was one of the lowest points of my life – all of our lives, actually".Deep Purple live album withdrawnBBC News. Retrieved 2 March 2012 Ritchie Blackmore left Deep Purple for the second and final time, after a show in
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, Finland on 17 November 1993. Joe Satriani
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was drafted to complete the Japanese dates in December and stayed on for a European summer tour in 1994. He was asked to join permanently, but his commitments to his contract with Epic Records prevented this. The band unanimously chose Dixie Dregs
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guitarist Steve Morse
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to become Satriani's successor on August 23, 1994.
Mark VII (1994–2002): ''Purpendicular'' and ''Abandon''
Morse's arrival revitalised the band creatively, and in 1996 a new album titled '' Purpendicular'' was released, showing a wide variety of musical styles. Though in the post-grunge mid '90s it was no surprise that it never made chart success on the Billboard 200 in the U.S.. This Mark VII line-up then released a new live album '' Live at The Olympia '96'' in 1997. With a revamped set list to tour, Deep Purple enjoyed successful tours throughout the rest of the 1990s, releasing the harder-sounding '' Abandon'' in 1998, and touring with renewed enthusiasm. file:Deep Purple (1995).jpg, Deep Purple in 1995. Left to right:Steve Morse
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, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, Ian Gillan, Ian Paice.
In 1999, Lord, with the help of a Dutch fan, who was also a musicologist and composer, Marco de Goeij, painstakingly recreated the ''Concerto for Group and Orchestra
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'', the original score having been lost. It was once again performed at the Royal Albert Hall in September 1999, this time with the London Symphony Orchestra
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conducted by Paul Mann. The concert also included songs from each member's solo careers, as well as a short Deep Purple set, and the occasion was commemorated on the 2000 album '' In Concert with The London Symphony Orchestra''.Buckley, Peter (2003). The rough guide to rock. p.280. Rough Guides. Retrieved 23 October 2011 2001 saw the release of the box set '' The Soundboard Series'', containing concerts from the 2001 Australian Tour plus two from Tokyo, Japan. Much of the next few years was spent on the road touring. The group continued forward until 2002 when founding member Lord (who, along with Paice, was the only member to be in all incarnations of the band) announced his amicable retirement from the band to pursue personal projects (especially orchestral work). Lord left his Hammond organ to his replacement, rock keyboard veteran Don Airey, who had helped Deep Purple out when Lord's knee was injured in 2001. Airey had previously worked with Glover as a member of Rainbow from 1979-1982.
Mark VIII (2002–2022): ''Bananas'', ''Rapture of the Deep'', ''Now What?!'', ''Infinite'', ''Whoosh!'' and ''Turning to Crime''
In 2003, the new Mark VIII line-up released ''Bananas
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'', their first studio album in five years, and began touring in support. EMI Records refused a contract extension with Deep Purple, possibly because of lower than expected sales. Actually ''In Concert with The London Symphony Orchestra'' sold more than ''Bananas''.
The band played at the Live 8
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concert in Park Place (Barrie
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, Ontario
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) in July 2005, and in October released their next album, '' Rapture of the Deep'', which was followed by the Rapture of the Deep tour
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. Both ''Bananas'' and ''Rapture of the Deep'' were produced by Michael Bradford
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. In 2009 Ian Gillan said, "Record sales have been steadily declining, but people are prepared to pay a lot for concert tickets." In addition, Gillan stated: "I don't think happiness comes with money."
Deep Purple did concert tours in 48 countries in 2011. The Songs That Built Rock Tour
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Overview
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used a 38-piece orchestra, and included a performance at the O2 Arena in London. Until May 2011, the band members had disagreed about whether to make a new studio album, because it would not really make money any more. Roger Glover stated that Deep Purple should make a new studio album "even if it costs us money." In early 2011, David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes told VH1 they would like to reunite Mark III for the right opportunity, such as a benefit concert. The current band's chief sound engineer on nine years of tours, Moray McMillin, died in September 2011, aged 57. After a lot of songwriting sessions in Europe, Deep Purple decided to record through the summer of 2012, and the band announced they would release their new studio album in 2013. Steve Morse announced to French magazine ''Rock Hard'' that the new studio album would be produced by Bob Ezrin
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.
On 16 July 2012 the band's co-founding member and former organ player, Jon Lord, died in London, aged 71. In December 2012 Roger Glover stated that the band had completed work on 14 songs for a new studio album, with 11 or 12 tracks set to appear on the final album to be released in 2013. On 26 February 2013 the title of the band's nineteenth studio album was announced as '' Now What?!'', which was recorded and mixed in Nashville, Tennessee, and released on 26 April 2013. The album contains the track “Vincent Price
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”, named after the horror actor who had worked with both Gillan and Glover earlier in their careers. The band's performance at Waken Open Air later 2013, and in Tokyo in 2014, were released in 2015 as the live albums and DVDs ''From the Setting Sun...'' and ''...to the Rising Sun''.
On 25 November 2016, Deep Purple announced ''Infinite
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'' as the title of their twentieth studio album, which was released on 7 April 2017. In support for the album, Deep Purple embarked on 13 May 2017 in Bucharest, Romania on The Long Goodbye Tour. At the time of the tour's announcement in December 2016, Paice told the Heavyworlds website it "may be the last big tour", adding that the band "don't know". He described the tour as being long in duration and said: "We haven't made any hard, fast plans, but it becomes obvious that you cannot tour the same way you did when you were 21. It becomes more and more difficult. People have other things in their lives, which take time. But never say never." On 3 February 2017, Deep Purple released a video version of "Time for Bedlam", the first track taken from the new album and the first new Deep Purple track for almost four years.
On 29 February 2020, a new track, "Throw My Bones" was released online, with a new album ''Whoosh!
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'' planned for release in June. The release of the full-length album would later be postponed to 7 August 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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. A review in ''NME
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'' said the album sounded nothing like contemporary music of 2020, but suggested that "maybe that's a good thing". Gillan confirmed in an interview on 4 August 2020 that he and the other members of Deep Purple have no immediate plans to retire.
On October 6, 2021, the band had announced the title of their covers album, ''Turning to Crime
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'' which was released on 26 November 2021.
Mark IX (2022–present)
In March 2022, Morse announced that he had to take a hiatus from the band after his wife was diagnosed with cancer. The band, who had recently returned to live performances, continued touring with Simon McBride, formerly of Sweet Savage, standing in for Morse who at that point officially remained in the band. On 23 July 2022, it was announced that Morse would be leaving permanently in order to focus on caring for his wife as she battles cancer. Later that September, McBride was made an official member of the band.
In June 2022, Gillan announced that the band plans to work on their twenty-third studio album after the conclusion of the ''Whoosh!'' tour: "Deep Purple has got a writing session booked in March 2023, which I believe is to get started on thinking about our next record."
Legacy
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, Aerosmith, Van Halen
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, Pantera, Bon Jovi, Europe
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, and many new wave of British heavy metal
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bands such as Iron Maiden
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, and Def Leppard
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. Iron Maiden's bassist and primary songwriter, Steve Harris, states that his band's "heaviness" was inspired by "Black Sabbath and Deep Purple with a bit of Zeppelin thrown in." Van Halen founder Eddie Van Halen named “Burn
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” one of his favourite ever guitar riffs. Queen guitarist Brian May
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referred to Ritchie Blackmore as "a trail blazer and technically incredible — unpredictable in every possible way...you never knew what you were gonna see when you went to see Purple". Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich states, "When I was nine years old it was all about Deep Purple. My all time favourite lbumis still '' Made in Japan''". The band's 1974 album ''Stormbringer'' was the first record owned by Till Lindemann
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.
While firmly placed in the hard rock and heavy metal categories, Deep Purple's music frequently incorporated elements of progressive rock
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and blues rock, prompting Canadian journalist Martin Popoff
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to once call the band "a reference point of a genre in metal without categorisation."
In 2000, Deep Purple were ranked number 22 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock" programme. At the 2008 World Music Awards
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, the band received the Legend Award. In 2011, they received the Innovator Award at the 2011 ''Classic Rock
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'' readers' poll in 2012 ranked '' Made in Japan'' the sixth best live album of all time."Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Live Albums of All Time". ''
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''. Retrieved 22 November 2012 As part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of ''Machine Head
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'' (1972), '' Re-Machined: A Tribute to Deep Purple's Machine Head'' was released in 2012. This tribute album included Iron Maiden, Metallica, Steve Vai
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, Carlos Santana, The Flaming Lips
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, Papa Roach vocalist Jacoby Shaddix
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and Michael Anthony, guitarist Joe Satriani
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and Chad Smith
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of Red Hot Chili Peppers
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) and the supergroup Kings of Chaos (Def Leppard vocalist Joe Elliott
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, Steve Stevens
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, and former Guns N' Roses members Duff McKagan
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and Matt Sorum
Matthew William Sorum (born November 19, 1960) is an American drummer. He is best known as both a former member of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he recorded three studio albums, and as a member of the supergroup Velvet Revolver. ...
).
In 2007, Deep Purple were one of the featured artists in the fourth episode of the BBC/VH1 series ''Seven Ages of Rock
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'' – an episode focusing on heavy metal. In May 2019 the group received the Ivor Novello Award
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for International Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors
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.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Before October 2012, Deep Purple had never been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (though they have been eligible since 1993), but were nominated for induction in 2012 and 2013."Rush, Deep Purple, Public Enemy Nominated for Rock Hall of Fame"Billboard. Retrieved 11 October 2012 Despite ranking second in the public's vote on the Rock Hall fans' ballot, which had over half a million votes, they were not inducted by the Rock Hall committee.
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bassist Gene Simmons and Rush bassist Geddy Lee
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commented that Deep Purple should obviously be among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. There have been criticisms in the past over Deep Purple not having been inducted. Toto guitarist Steve Lukather commented, "they put Patti Smith
Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946)
is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter and author who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album ''Horses''.
Called the "punk poet ...
in there but not Deep Purple? What's the first song every kid learns how to play? Smoke on the Water"nbsp;... And they're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? ... the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has lost its cool because of the glaring omissions." Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver
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guitarist Slash
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* Slash (punctuation), the "/" character
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* Nash ...
expressed his surprise and disagreement regarding the non-induction of Deep Purple: "The list of people who haven't even been nominated is mind-boggling ... hebig one for me is Deep Purple. How could you not induct Deep Purple?". Metallica band members James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett
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have also lobbied for the band's induction. In an interview with ''Rolling Stone'' in April 2014, Ulrich pleaded: "I'm not going to get into the politics or all that stuff, but I got two words to say: 'Deep Purple'. That's all I have to say: Deep Purple. Seriously, people, Deep Purple. Two simple words in the English language ... 'Deep Purple'! Did I say that already?" In 2015, Chris Jericho
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, professional wrestler and vocalist of rock band Fozzy
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, stated: "that Deep Purple are not in it all of Fame It's bullshit. Obviously there's some politics against them from getting in there."
In response to these, a Hall of Fame chief executive said, "The definition of 'rock and roll' means different things to different people, but as broad as the classifications may be, they all share a common love of the music." Roger Glover remained ambivalent about induction and got an inside word from the Hall, "One of the jurors said, 'You know, Deep Purple, they're just one-hit wonders.' How can you deal with that kind of Philistinism
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, you know?". Ian Gillan also commented, "I've fought all my life against being institutionalised and I think you have to actively search these things out, in other words mingle with the right people, and we don't get invited to those kind of things." On 16 October 2013 Deep Purple were again announced as nominees for inclusion to the Hall, and once again they were not inducted."Nirvana, Kiss, Hall and Oates Nominated for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame".''Rolling Stone''. 16 October 2013. Retrieved 16 October 2013. In April 2015, Deep Purple topped the list in a ''Rolling Stone'' readers poll of acts that should be inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2016. In October 2015, the band were nominated for induction for the third time. In December 2015, the band were announced as 2016 inductees into the Hall of Fame, with the Hall stating: "Deep Purple's non-inclusion in the Hall is a gaping hole which must now be filled", adding that along with fellow inductees Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, the band make up "the Holy Trinity of hard rock and metal bands." The band was officially inducted on 8 April 2016. The Hall of Fame announced that the following members were included as inductees: Ian Paice, Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, Ian Gillan, Rod Evans, David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes. Excluded from induction were Nick Simper, Tommy Bolin, Joe Lynn Turner, Joe Satriani, Steve Morse and Don Airey. Prior to the induction ceremony, Ian Gillan announced that he was barring Hughes, Coverdale, Evans and Blackmore from playing with them onstage, as these members are not in the current "living, breathing" version of the band. Of the seven living inducted members, five showed up. Blackmore didn't attend; a posting on his Facebook page claimed he was honoured by the induction and had considered attending, until he received correspondence from Bruce Payne, manager from the current touring version of Deep Purple saying, "No!" In interviews at the Rock Hall, however, Gillan insisted he personally invited Blackmore to attend. In an interview later on, Gillan mentioned he invited Blackmore to play "Smoke on the Water" at the ceremony, but Blackmore believes he did not receive that invitation. Evans, who had disappeared from the music scene more than three decades prior, also didn't appear. Since Lord had died in 2012, his wife Vickie accepted his award on his behalf. The current members of the band played " Highway Star" for the opening performance. After a brief interlude playing the Booker T. & the M.G.'s song "
Green Onions
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" while photos of the late Jon Lord flashed on the screen behind them, the current Deep Purple members played two more songs: "Hush
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" and their signature tune "Smoke on the Water
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In a 2004 publication by ''Rolling Stone'' magaz ...
". Although barred from playing with Deep Purple, both David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes (as well as Roger Glover) joined fellow inductees Cheap Trick
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and an all-star cast to perform a cover of the Fats Domino
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song "Ain't That a Shame
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"."Deep Purple Rocks Hall of Fame With Hits-Filled Set". ''Rolling Stone''. Retrieved 19 October 2016
Band members
Current members
*Ian Paice
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– drums
* Roger Glover
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– bass
* Ian Gillan
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Initially influenced by Elvis Presley, Gillan ...
– vocals, harmonica, percussion
* Don Airey – keyboards
* Simon McBride – guitar
Former members
*Jon Lord
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– keyboards, string arrangements, backing vocals
* Ritchie Blackmore
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– guitars
* Nick Simper
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– bass, backing vocals
* Rod Evans
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– lead vocals (1968–1969)
* Glenn Hughes – bass, backing and lead vocals (1973–1976)
* David Coverdale – lead and backing vocals
* Tommy Bolin
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– guitars, backing vocals
* Joe Lynn Turner
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– lead vocals
* Joe Satriani
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– guitars
* Steve Morse
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– guitars
Touring musicians
* Christopher Cross – guitar *Randy California
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– guitar
* Candice Night
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– backing vocals
* Nick Fyffe
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– bass
* Jordan Rudess
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– keyboards
Concert tours
Deep Purple are considered to be one of the hardest touring bands in the world. They have toured the world since 1968 (with the exception of their 1976–1984 split). In 2007, the band received a special award for selling more than 150,000 tickets in France, with 40 dates in the country in 2007 alone. Also in 2007, Deep Purple's Rapture of the Deep tour
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was voted number 6 concert tour of the year (in all music genres) by Planet Rock listeners. The Rolling Stones
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' A Bigger Bang tour
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was voted number 5 and beat Purple's tour by only 1%. Deep Purple released a new live compilation DVD box, Around the World Live, in May 2008. In February 2008, the band made their first-ever appearance at the State Kremlin Palace
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in Moscow
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, Russia at the personal request of Dmitry Medvedev who at the time was a chairman of the state owned Gazprom company, which sponsored the concert, and who was considered a shoo-in for the seat of the Presidency of Russia. Prior to that, Deep Purple has toured Russia several times starting as early as 1996 but has not been considered to have played such a significant venue previously. The band was part of the entertainment for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009
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in Liberec, the Czech Republic.
*Deep Purple Debut Tour, 1968 in Scandinavian countries
*Shades of Deep Purple Tour, 1968
*The Book of Taliesyn Tour, 1968–1969
* Deep Purple European Tour, (pre-tour for In Rock) 1969–1970
*In Rock World Tour, 1970–1971
*Fireball World Tour, 1971–1972
*Machine Head World Tour, 1972–1973
*Deep Purple European Tour, (pre-tour for Burn
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) 1973–1974
*Burn World Tour, 1974
*Stormbringer World Tour, 1974–1975
*Come Taste The Band World Tour, 1975–1976
*Perfect Strangers Tour, World Tour, aka Reunion Tour 1984–1985
*The House of Blue Light World Tour, 1987–1988
*Slaves and Masters World Tour, 1991
*Deep Purple 25 Years Anniversary World Tour, aka The Battle Rages on Tour, 1993
*Deep Purple and Joe Satriani Tour, 1993–1994
*Deep Purple Secret Mexican Tour (short warm-up tour with Steve Morse
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), 1994
*Deep Purple Secret USA Tour, 1994–1995
*Deep Purple Asian & African Tour, 1995
*Purpendicular World Tour, 1996–1997
*A Band on World Tour, 1998–1999
*Concerto World Tour, 2000–2001
*Deep Purple World Tour, 2001–2003
*Bananas World Tour, 2003–2005
*Rapture of the Deep tour
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, 2006–2011
*The Songs That Built Rock Tour
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, 2011–2012
*Now What? World Tour, 2013–2015
*World Tour 2016, 2016
* The Long Goodbye Tour, 2017–2019
*Whoosh! Tour, 2022
Discography
Studio albums
*''Shades of Deep Purple
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'' (1968)
*''The Book of Taliesyn
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'' (1968)
*'' Deep Purple'' (1969)
*''Deep Purple in Rock
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Work on ''In Rock ...
'' (1970)
*'' Fireball'' (1971)
*''Machine Head
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'' (1972)
*''Who Do We Think We Are
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Musically ...
'' (1973)
*''Burn
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'' (1974)
*''Stormbringer
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'' (1974)
*'' Come Taste the Band'' (1975)
*'' Perfect Strangers'' (1984)
*'' The House of Blue Light'' (1987)
*'' Slaves and Masters'' (1990)
*'' The Battle Rages On...'' (1993)
*'' Purpendicular'' (1996)
*'' Abandon'' (1998)
*''Bananas
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'' (2003)
*'' Rapture of the Deep'' (2005)
*'' Now What?!'' (2013)
*''Infinite
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'' (2017)
*''Whoosh!
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'' (2020)
*''Turning to Crime
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'' (2021)
Notes
References
*''Deep Purple: The Illustrated Biography'', Chris Charlesworth, Omnibus Press, 1983, *''Smoke on the Water: The Deep Purple Story'', Dave Thompson, ECW Press, 2004, *''The Complete Deep Purple'', Michael Heatley, Reynolds & Hearn, 2005, *''Touched by Magic: The Tommy Bolin Story'', Greg Prato, Createspace, 2008, .External links
*The Highway Star - The original Deep Purple Fan site
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