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120-543: Deep Purple in Rock is the fourth studio album by English rock band 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 began shortly after Gillan and Glover joined the band in June 1969, with rehearsals at Hanwell Community Centre . The music

240-660: A B-side in Holland. The final take used on the album was recorded in January 1970; it opens with an untitled instrumental known as "Woffle", recorded in November 1969. "Bloodsucker" was recorded at De Lane Lea Studios and finished at Abbey Road Studios . Paice enjoyed playing on the track. The song would be re-recorded 28 years later, with Steve Morse on guitar, and retitled "Bludsucker" for Deep Purple's 1998 album Abandon . " Child in Time "

360-592: 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 of club band the Maze, and thought his voice fitted their style well. Tagging along with Evans was his band's drummer Ian Paice . 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

480-517: A session musician . Afterwards, Glover changed his mind and decided to join the band. The group initially met and developed song ideas in secrecy, not telling Evans or original bassist Nick Simper because the original lineup still had tour dates to promote the album The Book of Taliesyn , which Harvest had finally released in the UK (several months after its October 1968 US release). Furthermore, Episode Six's management did not want Gillan and Glover to quit

600-504: 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. In April 1984, eight years after

720-524: 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

840-466: A 38-piece orchestra, and included a performance at the O 2 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

960-558: 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 / Kansas guitarist Steve Morse as Satriani's successor in August 1994. "Musically, it was very satisfying. The setlist was straight out of classic rock heaven. And the band were just great. Their timing was just fantastic." — Guitarist Joe Satriani on his brief period with Deep Purple. Morse's arrival revitalised

1080-475: A European tour, which was documented on the live album Come Hell or High Water , released in 1994. A live home video of the same name was also released, covering a show in Birmingham , England that displayed a very disgruntled Blackmore, who did not perform many of the guitar parts and at one point threw a cup of water at a cameraman for unknown reasons. The complete show was eventually released in 2006 as Live at

1200-414: A Fire Tour), Jeff Beck , Reg Isidore , Ginger Baker , Jan Hammer , The Gass and Bobby Tench . The Who refer to the club in their album The Who Sell Out ("Speakeasy, drink easy, pull easy") (1967), referencing the club in the "Radio London/Speakeasy/Rotosound Strings" commercial insert for the same album. Elvis Costello mentioned the club in his song "London's Brilliant Parade", included on

1320-448: A US tour in May, Blackmore, Lord and drummer Ian Paice decided to replace original lead singer Rod Evans with someone who could tackle a hard rock style. The group had also recently signed a deal with Harvest Records in the UK, who were intending to represent progressive and underground bands, but label owner Malcolm Jones thought Deep Purple relied too much on gimmicks and only appealed to

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1440-480: A band that had released several singles in the UK without achieving any great commercial success. Six's drummer Mick Underwood – an old comrade of Blackmore's from his days in the Outlaws – introduced the band to Gillan and bassist Roger Glover . 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

1560-404: A bass riff written by Glover at Hanwell, in an attempt to emulate Jimi Hendrix 's " Fire ". Gillan wrote the lyrics by taking phrases of old rock 'n' roll songs by Little Richard . It was originally known as "Kneel and Pray" and developed as a live piece for several months before recording. The first studio take of the song featured Lord playing piano instead of organ, which was later released as

1680-601: A board in rehearsal. Second to Deep Purple was "Concrete God", which the band thought was too harsh to take on. In May 1968, the band moved into Pye Studios in London's Marble Arch to record their debut album, Shades of Deep Purple , which was released in America in July by Tetragrammaton Records , and in Britain in September by EMI Records . Vanilla Fudge was a notable influence on

1800-430: 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. "He turned up for the session...he was their bass player. We weren't originally going to take him until Paicey said, 'he's a good bass player, let's keep him.' So I said okay." — Ritchie Blackmore on

1920-495: 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 in 1973. Spawning the hit single " Woman from Tokyo ",

2040-523: A drug overdose five months later. Deep Purple reformed in 1984 with the Mark II line-up, which remained in place until Joe Lynn Turner replaced Gillan in 1989. Gillan rejoined in 1992, and Blackmore left for the second and final time the following year. He was replaced temporarily by Joe Satriani and then permanently by Steve Morse . In 2002, Lord retired and was replaced by Don Airey , which saw Deep Purple settle into its longest running line-up, unchanged for

2160-468: 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 . "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

2280-465: A lack of musical direction. Although the group contained experienced musicians, none of the original members were accomplished songwriters, and their earlier work ranged from psychedelic hard rock based around guitarist Ritchie Blackmore 's riffs, classical-influenced tracks developed and arranged by organist Jon Lord , and cover songs from the Beatles , Joe South , Neil Diamond and Donovan . After

2400-501: A man firing a flare gun into the ceiling, burned down the Casino. This incident famously inspired the song " Smoke on the Water ". 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

2520-487: A riot and destroyed £2,000 worth of equipment. In 1995 a remastered and revised 25th anniversary edition of the album was released by EMI. The album was remastered by Glover, adding "Black Night", "Jam Stew", a new mix of "Cry Free", and remixes of "Flight of the Rat" and "Speed King". In 2009 audiophile label Audio Fidelity released a remastered version of Deep Purple in Rock on a limited edition 24 karat gold CD. Mastering for

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2640-522: A rock band. The cover was designed by the group's management; it depicts Mount Rushmore with photographs of the band's faces superimposed over the US presidents. After recording had finished, the group continued touring. Gillan recalled playing 50 UK gigs in the first half of 1970, plus a further 15 in Europe. They also performed a live television special for Granada TV 's Doing Their Thing and for London Weekend Television 's South Bank Summer . On 9 August,

2760-420: A set of black and white photographs of the band. The U.S. release of the album cut the intro to "Speed King", which lasts just over a minute. It remains edited on the standard Warner Bros. U.S. release, but was restored to full length on the 25th Anniversary package. The album was reissued in a single-sleeve vinyl in 1982, replacing the original gatefold sleeve. The Mexican release also included "Black Night" to

2880-404: 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 fuelled 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,

3000-809: 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. After the break-up, most of the members of Deep Purple went on to have considerable success in a number of other bands, including Rainbow (1975–1984, Ritchie Blackmore and, from 1979, Roger Glover), Whitesnake (1978–present, David Coverdale, Jon Lord until 1984 and Ian Paice during 1979 to 1982) and Gillan (1978–1982, Ian Gillan). Ian Gillan also joined Black Sabbath from late 1982 to early 1984 (Glenn Hughes would also join Sabbath for

3120-563: 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 ) the California Jam festival at Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario , southern California, on 6 April 1974. Attracting over 250,000 fans, the festival also included 1970s rock giants Black Sabbath , Eagles , Seals & Crofts and Earth, Wind & Fire . Portions of

3240-467: A warning against drugs. The main riff developed after discussing chromatic scales with Blackmore. "Living Wreck" was recorded at the early IBC sessions in October 1969. It was almost left off the album as the group felt it was not good enough, but they listened to it again towards the end of the sessions and decided they liked it. Blackmore played the guitar solo through an octave pedal . "Hard Lovin' Man"

3360-512: A year. Deep Purple had finally found its niche with its hard-driving, heavy, thunderous, powerful rock." Retrospective reviews have been similarly favourable. AllMusic ' s Eduardo Rivadavia has called In Rock "one of heavy metal's defining albums". Rock journalist Malcolm Dome stated that " In Rock is one of the great albums... not just by Purple, by anybody." On new members Gillan and Glover, he added: "How Ian Gillan remains completely in control of his voice whilst going completely insane

3480-632: Is remarkable. And Roger Glover was unfussy, but very good technically... also contributing nicely and impressively to songwriting." Sid Smith remarked in his BBC Music review the "strident confidence that the new line-up had found" and how the album "pretty much carved out the template for heavy rock." Canadian journalist Martin Popoff wrote that "Deep Purple's In rock , along with Sabbath 's Paranoid and Heep 's Uriah Heep , all in 1970, outright and triple-handedly invented Heavy Metal", with In Rock being "the flashiest, freshest and most sophisticated of

3600-762: The Live 8 concert in Park Place ( Barrie , Ontario) in July 2005, and in October released their next album, Rapture of the Deep , which was followed by the Rapture of the Deep tour . Both Bananas and Rapture of the Deep were produced by Michael Bradford . 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 used

3720-480: The London Symphony Orchestra 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 . 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

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3840-642: The Stormbringer tour, was assembled during the summer of 1975, but would not see release until late 1976. Blackmore left the band on 21 June 1975 to form his own band with Ronnie James Dio of Elf , called Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow , shortened to Rainbow after the first album . Following Blackmore's departure, the group considered disbanding but decided to continue and find another guitarist. Clem Clempson ( Colosseum , Humble Pie ), Zal Cleminson ( The Sensational Alex Harvey Band ), Mick Ronson ( The Spiders From Mars ) and Rory Gallagher were considered, and

3960-637: The Thames ." Lord would also write the Gemini Suite , another orchestra/group collaboration in the same vein, for the band in late 1970, although the band's recording of the piece would not be released until 1993. In 1975, Blackmore stated that he thought the Concerto for Group and Orchestra was not bad but that the Gemini Suite was horrible and very disjointed. Roger Glover later noted that Jon Lord had appeared to be

4080-549: The UK Singles Chart , and the band performed the song live on the BBC 's Top of the Pops . 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

4200-466: The "Hallelujah" single in the UK, the song flopped. Blackmore had told the British weekly music newspaper Record Mirror 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. In September 1969, the band gained some much-needed publicity in

4320-562: The Artwoods (led by Art Wood , brother of future Faces and Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood , and including Keef Hartley ). Lord was then performing in a backing band for the vocal group The Flower Pot Men , along with bassist Nick Simper and drummer Carlo Little (Simper had previously been in Johnny Kidd and the Pirates , and survived the 1966 car crash that killed Kidd). Lord alerted

4440-517: The CD was performed by Steve Hoffman . This release follows the original seven-track format with no bonus tracks. Reaction to In Rock was positive. Record Mirror ' s Rodney Collins said it was "a stunningly good album" showing that "rock, given a fresh stab and alert material, is still one of the most rewarding areas of contemporary music." Richard Green, writing in New Musical Express , said

4560-548: The Good Rats , Moxy and Alphonse Mouzon , 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

4680-511: The Legend Award at the 2008 World Music Awards . Deep Purple (specifically Blackmore, Lord, Paice, Gillan, Glover, Coverdale, Evans, and Hughes) were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016. 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

4800-603: The NEC but was quickly withdrawn after Gillan publicly complained, feeling it represented a bad time in the group's history: "It was one of the lowest points of my life – all of our lives, actually". Blackmore left Deep Purple for the second and final time after a show in Helsinki , Finland in November 1993. Joe Satriani was drafted to complete the Japanese dates in December and stayed on for

4920-623: The Speakeasy was burned down. After this it changed management. Tony Howard then took over with Laurie O'Leary. Laurie O'Leary who was a lifelong friend of the Kray twins and former PR of the Sybillas discoteque in Mayfair, London, became the promoter and publicity manager for the club. The Speakeasy was frequented by record industry and artist agency executives. It also attracted bands who played for low fees in

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5040-514: The Tetragrammaton contract, and would release Deep Purple's albums in the US throughout the 1970s. The album was the first one produced by the group, though they made prominent use of the engineers at the sessions, particularly Martin Birch who aimed to reproduce the live sound of the studio room on tape. The title was a reaction to Concerto for Group and Orchestra , emphasising that Deep Purple were

5160-772: The UK with the Concerto for Group and Orchestra , 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 . Alongside Days of Future Passed by the Moody Blues and Five Bridges by the Nice , 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

5280-418: The UK, but the band – Ritchie Blackmore in particular – were determined that they "would not be labelled as a novelty act. He was adamant that the next studio album should be an all-out assault on the eardrums. As Blackmore said to others, 'if it’s not dramatic or exciting, it has no place on this album.' In Rock was everything Blackmore had envisaged and more. It would remain in the UK charts for over

5400-413: 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

5520-735: The US leg of their Goodbye tour. The band's second album, The Book of Taliesyn , was recorded quickly and released in North America in October 1968 to coincide with the tour. The album included Neil Diamond 's " Kentucky Woman ", which cracked the Top 40 in both the US (No. 38 on the Billboard chart) and Canada (No. 21 on the RPM 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

5640-550: The US market. Lord and Blackmore had met with Paice during the tour to discuss the personnel change, and Blackmore said he wanted to "have a go at being really heavy" after hearing Led Zeppelin 's debut album . Blackmore asked his former bandmate, drummer Mick Underwood , to see if he knew a suitable singer. Underwood suggested his Episode Six bandmate Ian Gillan . Blackmore, Lord and Paice went to see an Episode Six gig in Woodford Green on 4 June, and after Blackmore sat in with

5760-464: 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

5880-543: 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. They then headed over to play Europe before resuming US dates in March. While in America, Blackmore contracted hepatitis, and

6000-422: 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. However, 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

6120-537: 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 , 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

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6240-478: The album was "Good, meaty rock all the way" and particularly praised Gillan's singing on "Child In Time". Disc and Music Echo rated it 4 stars out of 5, comparing the sound to the Nice , and noting Blackmore's instrumental dominance over Lord. According to Tony Dolan in Deep Purple: a Critical Retrospective , the first Mk II album Concerto for Group and Orchestra had given Deep Purple much needed publicity in

6360-434: The aptly titled The Battle Rages On... in 1993. Blackmore still disagreed with the decision, creating more tension between himself and the rest of the band, especially Gillan. Of particular contention was that Gillan had reworked much of the material that 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

6480-496: The band agreed on Joe Lynn Turner , 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. With

6600-623: The band attempted one show in Flint, Michigan , without a guitarist before attempting to acquire the services of Al Kooper , who rehearsed with the band before bowing out, suggesting Spirit guitarist Randy California instead. California played one show with the group, in Quebec City , Quebec 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

6720-472: 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

6840-493: 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

6960-592: The band to play without him, with bassist Glover singing the set. After this, the rest of the US dates were cancelled and the band flew home. In early December 1971, the band travelled to Switzerland to record Machine Head . The album was due to be recorded at the Montreux Casino using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio , but a fire during a Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention concert, caused by

7080-733: 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 in Chicago when Ian Gillan contracted hepatitis , forcing

7200-400: The band's Mark I albums had been more successful. An accompanying single, " Black Night " reached No. 2 in the UK, becoming their highest charting single there. The album has continued to attract critical praise as a key early example of the hard rock and heavy metal genres. By mid-1969, Deep Purple had recorded three albums, and achieved commercial success in the US, but suffered from

7320-430: The band's home country until the following year and, like its predecessor, it failed to have much impact on the UK Albums Chart . Early in 1969, the band released the non-album single "Emmaretta", named after Emmaretta Marks, at that time 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

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7440-571: The band's music, a sound that was even more apparent on the late 1974 release Stormbringer . Along with the title track, the Stormbringer album had a number of songs that received significant 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, derisively calling it "shoeshine music" out of distaste for its funk and soul elements. A new live album, Made in Europe , culled from three shows on

7560-656: 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 I comprised the founding members of Deep Purple, Ritchie Blackmore (guitar), Rod Evans (vocals), Jon Lord (keyboards), Paice (drums) and Nick Simper (bass), while Mark II was the most commercially successful line-up, with Ian Gillan and Roger Glover replacing Evans and Simper respectively. Mark III saw David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes replace Gillan and Glover respectively, while Mark IV featured Tommy Bolin replacing Blackmore. The band split in July 1976, and Bolin died from

7680-483: The band, however, Jamison announced he could not join Deep Purple owing to complications with Scotti Brothers Records , his record label. Eventually, after auditioning several high-profile candidates, including Brian Howe ( White Spirit , Ted Nugent , Bad Company ), Doug Pinnick ( King's X ), Australians Jimmy Barnes ( Cold Chisel ) and John Farnham ( Little River Band ), Terry Brock (Strangeways, Giant ) and Norman "Kal" Swan ( Tytan , Lion , Bad Moon Rising ),

7800-426: The band, they offered Gillan the job. Gillan and Episode Six bassist Roger Glover were friends and had formed a songwriting partnership. However, Glover did not want to leave Episode Six, so Gillan suggested he could help out with Deep Purple's songwriting as a compromise. On 7 June, Gillan and Glover were asked to play on a Deep Purple recording session for their next single, " Hallelujah ", with Glover performing as

7920-462: The band, with Blackmore claiming that the group started out wanting to be a "Vanilla Fudge clone". The group had success in North America with a cover of Joe South 's " Hush ", 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 chart, pushing the Shades LP up to No. 24 on Billboard ' s pop albums chart. The following month, Deep Purple were booked to support Cream on

8040-531: The bands Captain Beyond and Warhorse respectively. Deep Purple Mark II was formed in Hanwell Community Centre in West London in the summer of 1969. In search of a new vocalist, Blackmore set his own sights on 19-year-old singer Terry Reid . 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 from Episode Six ,

8160-419: 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

8280-402: 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 ,

8400-457: 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 Mercury Records releasing their albums in the US, and Polydor Records in the UK and other countries. The album Perfect Strangers was recorded in Vermont and released in October 1984. The album

8520-429: The early to mid-seventies". Listed in the 1975 Guinness Book of World Records as " the globe's loudest band " for a 1972 concert at London's Rainbow Theatre , they have sold over 100 million records worldwide. Deep Purple have had several line-up changes and disbanded for eight years from 1976 to 1984, with drummer Ian Paice being the band's only constant member. The first four line-ups, which constituted

8640-488: 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." The band hired Midlands bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes , formerly of Trapeze . 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

8760-489: The final choice was American Tommy Bolin . 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 100-watt stacks and...the job

8880-445: The first sessions in October. Studio work was spaced out between gigs, which were needed to provide the band with income, and continued intermittently until April the following year. Gillan later said that the regular gigging was important for material to be developed and to find the most suitable arrangements before recording. The basic ethos behind recording is that everything had to be loud and heavy; Glover recalls seeing VU meters in

9000-613: The group appeared at the National Jazz and Blues Festival , which culminated in Blackmore setting fire to his amplifiers. Unlike earlier albums, every song on In Rock is credited to the five Deep Purple band members. Gillan recalled the songs were initially rehearsed at Hanwell, then introduced to the live show to see how they would work. Lord said the purpose of the album was to make "a conscious effort to stop and think about writing material we all understood". " Speed King " developed from

9120-438: The group's management were worried there was no obvious hit single, and booked De Lane Lea in early May 1970 so the band could write and record one. After struggling to come up with a commercial-sounding song, Blackmore started playing the riff to Ricky Nelson 's arrangement of "Summertime", while the group improvised the rest of the structure. Gillan later said he tried to write "the most banal lyrics we could think of". The result

9240-416: The group, and they attempted to get a settlement from Deep Purple. However, after a few weeks, both Evans and Simper discovered they had been fired, and were unimpressed with the underhanded way it had been done, particularly recording with a different line-up. Underwood later said he regretted recommending Gillan to Deep Purple because he did not want Simper to lose his job. The final show with Evans and Simper

9360-608: 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." Evans and Simper would go on to co-form

9480-520: The hiring of Roger Glover. Mark II's first release was a Roger Greenaway – Roger Cook tune titled " Hallelujah ". 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

9600-678: The hope of being spotted and form the basis of the then emerging British rock scene . The club also attracted international touring bands and established artists. Musicians and bands who played at the club (often after recording sessions) include Elton John , Cockney Rebel , The Rolling Stones , The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown , Pink Floyd (who first appeared on 19 September 1967), The Pretty Things, Arthur Lee and Love , King Crimson , The Marmalade , The Mothers of Invention (October 1967), Yes , Jimi Hendrix (1966), David Bowie , Deep Purple (10 July 1969), The Velvet Underground (6 October 1971, Loaded Tour), Bob Marley (May 1973 Catch

9720-456: The idea of forming Bad Company." Instead, auditions were held for lead vocal replacements. They settled on David Coverdale , an unknown singer from Saltburn in north-east England, primarily because Blackmore liked his masculine, blues-tinged voice. Burn , the first album by Deep Purple Mark III, was released in February 1974 to great success, reaching No. 3 in the UK and No. 9 in the US, and

9840-506: 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 -inspired cover), which contained the then-concert staples " Speed King ", "Into The Fire" and " Child in Time ". The non-album single " Black Night ", released around

9960-427: The main riff was featured on the track "Bullfrog" on the session album Green Bullfrog , released the following year. The album and the single "Black Night" were both released on 5 June 1970. In Rock reached No. 4 in the UK and stayed in the album charts throughout the year and into the next, until the follow-up album Fireball was ready. The original release featured a gatefold sleeve with full lyrics, and

10080-585: 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 , 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,

10200-463: The new material was briefly interrupted by Lord's Concerto for Group and Orchestra , which featured Deep Purple playing with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall on 24 September. Though the concerto was a different style to the material worked on at Hanwell, it led to increased publicity in the UK, which along with the group's live act, started to give them a following. Recording on In Rock began at IBC Studios , London, with

10320-485: The new studio album would be produced by Bob Ezrin . The Speakeasy Club The Speakeasy club was launched on 15th December 1966 under the management of Roy Flynn. Roy had previously been the main artist booker for the Bryan Morrison Agency and NEMS Enterprises. Jim Carter-Fea was also instated in management. The initial house DJ was Mike Vesty who had worked for Blaises. Two years later in September 1968

10440-434: 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

10560-416: The next twenty years, until Morse announced his departure from the band in 2022. His place was taken by Simon McBride . Paice, Glover, Gillan, Airey and 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

10680-420: The pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock , although their musical style has varied throughout their career. Originally formed as a psychedelic rock and progressive rock band, they shifted to a heavier sound with their 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock . Deep Purple, together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath , have been referred to as the "unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal in

10800-548: 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' ", " Lazy " and "Smoke on

10920-437: The red (signalling audio distortion ) in the studio. In November 1969, the group played "Speed King" and "Living Wreck" for a BBC session, while in February 1970, the group performed a concert for the station, previewing some of the new live material. The band's US record company, Tetragrammaton , declared bankruptcy around this time, meaning an uncertainty of the album being released there. Warner Bros subsequently bought out

11040-407: The rest of the 1990s, releasing the harder-sounding Abandon in 1998, and touring with renewed enthusiasm. 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 , the original score having been lost. It was once again performed at the Royal Albert Hall in September 1999, this time with

11160-403: 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

11280-503: The same time, finally put Deep Purple into the UK Top Ten. 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. Along with Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin II and Sabbath's Paranoid , In Rock codified

11400-480: 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 headline the 1985 Knebworth Fayre in June, where

11520-572: The show were telecast on ABC Television in the US, exposing the band to a wider audience. During the show, Blackmore doused his amplifiers with petrol and set them on fire, blowing a hole in the stage. A month later, the band's 22 May performance at the Gaumont State Cinema 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

11640-912: The three." In his review, he reminded how the album remains "the sharpest, most insistently metallic Deep Purple record until Perfect Strangers " 14 years later, despite Deep Purple never accepting the title of heavy metal act, "fancying of themselves as a jazzy bluesy proggy hard rock band." Blackmore has since said the album is his favourite during his time with Deep Purple, along with Machine Head . All songs written by Ritchie Blackmore , Ian Gillan , Roger Glover , Jon Lord and Ian Paice . Note Deep Purple Additional personnel Sales figures based on certification alone. Shipments figures based on certification alone. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. (*) designates unordered lists. Citations Sources Deep Purple Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in London in 1968. They are considered to be among

11760-473: 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 25th 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 preferred Turner to remain in the group, he grudgingly relented, after requesting and eventually receiving $ 250,000 in his bank account and Mark II completed

11880-472: The track "April", which featured strings and woodwind, showcasing Lord's classical antecedents such as Bach and Rimsky-Korsakov . 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

12000-401: The track listing. The chart success of In Rock greatly raised Deep Purple's profile. In October, while touring the UK, Melody Maker ran a feature of "Purple Mania" showing the group's concerts were attracting increasingly enthusiastic crowds. The band finished the year touring Scandinavia and Germany. At a show at Lüdenscheid , they played without Blackmore who had taken ill. Fans started

12120-571: The two that he had been recruited for the Roundabout project, after which Simper and Little suggested guitarist Ritchie Blackmore , 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 to audition for the new group. He

12240-496: The weather was bad (torrential rain and 6 inches (15 cm) 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

12360-410: 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 composed Hire-Edwards-Coletta Enterprises (HEC). The first recruit to the band was classically trained Hammond organ player Jon Lord , Curtis's flatmate, who had most notably played with

12480-520: Was commercially successful, reaching number 5 in the UK Albums Chart 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,

12600-444: 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 20th anniversary of Deep Purple. 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 frontman Jimi Jamison as Gillan's replacement. After two weeks of sessions with

12720-405: Was derived from a Glover bass riff and developed as a jam session by the rest of the band. It was the first track for the album recorded at De Lane Lea in January 1970 with engineer Martin Birch . The group were impressed with Birch's skills, and he was retained as engineer for the rest of the group's albums up to 1976. He was credited as a "catalyst" on the original LP. After completing the album,

12840-515: Was followed by another world tour. The title track , 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 , Emerson, Lake & Palmer , Genesis and Gentle Giant . Another notable song from the album was a slow-burning blues number called " Mistreated ". Mark III embarked on

12960-628: 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 's 1973 jazz fusion album Spectrum , and as lead guitarist on two post- Joe Walsh James Gang albums: Bang (1973) and Miami (1974). He had also played with Dr. John , Albert King ,

13080-444: Was injured in 2001. Airey had previously worked with Glover as a member of Rainbow from 1979 to 1982. In 2003, the new Mark VIII line-up released Bananas , 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

13200-411: Was intended to be loud and heavy, and accurately represent the group's live show. Recording took place at various studios around London in between extensive touring, during which time songs and arrangements were honed into shape. In Rock was the band's breakthrough album in Europe and peaked at No. 4 in the UK, remaining in the charts for over a year. By contrast, it underperformed in the US, where

13320-419: Was issued in the summer of 1971, reaching number 1 on the UK Albums Chart . 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,

13440-415: 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 , the latter artist prompting Blackmore's move to Germany. Curtis's erratic behaviour and lifestyle, fuelled by his use of LSD , caused him to display a sudden lack of interest in the project he had started, forcing HEC to dismiss him from Roundabout. However, HEC

13560-462: 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. 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 's Play-Boys (for whom he had played under

13680-415: Was on 4 July, with the new lineup playing their first gig at The Speakeasy Club in London on 10 July. Gillan and Glover continued to play several more dates with Episode Six, the final show taking place on 26 July. They were replaced by John Gustafson as singer and bassist. Hanwell Community Centre was booked for the band to rehearse and write new material; according to Glover, it was chosen because "it

13800-562: 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 . 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

13920-621: Was recorded at IBC in November 1969. It subsequently became a de facto anthem for anti-Communist resistance groups in Eastern Europe during the period of the Iron Curtain . "Flight of the Rat" was the last song recorded for the album, at De Lane Lea on 11 March. It evolved during rehearsals from a humorous re-arrangement by Glover of " Flight of the Bumblebee ". "Into the Fire" was written by Glover as

14040-450: Was the only place we could find where we could make a lot of noise". The basic structure of "Child in Time" was worked out at these sessions, and both it and "Speed King" (then titled "Kneel and Pray") were in the live set by the line-up's seventh gig at the Paradiso, Amsterdam , on 24 August. The Mk II lineup began to tour extensively, and found they had good musical chemistry together. Work on

14160-415: Was the single " Black Night ", which became the group's first UK hit. "Cry Free" was recorded at IBC in January 1970. Although the group recorded over 30 takes, it did not make the final track listing, and was later released on a compilation album. An instrumental, "Jam Stew" was recorded in late November 1969 at IBC. A version with improvised lyrics had been recorded as "John Stew" for a BBC session, while

14280-483: 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. 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, after his grandmother's favourite song, " Deep Purple " by Peter DeRose . The group had resolved to choose a name after everyone had posted one on

14400-504: Was written early during the Hanwell rehearsals, after Lord began playing the introduction to "Bombay Calling" by It's a Beautiful Day . The group decided to play the song's main theme at a slower tempo, with Gillan writing new words inspired by the Vietnam War . He later said he came up with the song's title spontaneously. The song was regularly played live, and was well-rehearsed by the time it

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