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Alphonse Mouzon
Alphonse Mouzon (21 November, 1948) is a well known jazz-fusion drummer and percussionist, and the Chairman/CEO of Tenacious Records. He also composes, arranges and produces, as well as acts. Alphonse Mouzon's popularity as a performing artist first became realized in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink;=ALPHONSE|MOUZON&sql;=11:wifixqy5ldhe~T1 Allmusic]
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Art Wood
Arthur "Art" 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.
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Billy Cobham
William C. Cobham (born May 16, 1944 in Panama), is a Panamanian American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader.
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Bobby Woodman
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Brian Howe (singer)
Brian Anthony Howe (born 22 July 1953) is an English rock singer and songwriter, best known for replacing Paul Rodgers as the lead vocalist of Bad Company. Howe's career was jump-started in 1983, when Ted Nugent recruited him to handle lead vocals for his Penetrator album, and front its subsequent world tour.
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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss", is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of Heartland rock infused with pop hooks, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
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Chris Curtis
Chris Curtis (August 26, 1941 – February 28, 2005) was an English drummer and singer with the 1960s pop band, The Searchers. He originated the concept behind Deep Purple and formed the band in its original incarnation of 'Roundabout'.
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David Coverdale
David Coverdale (born 22 September 1951, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire) is an English rock singer, most famous for his work with the English hard rock band Deep Purple, and his later band Whitesnake, of which he is the only original member to remain with the band.
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Don Airey
Don Airey (born 21 June 1948 in Sunderland, England) has been the keyboardist in the rock band Deep Purple since 2002, succeeding Jon Lord. He has had a long and productive career, playing with such acts as Gary Moore, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Whitesnake, Colosseum II, Sinner, Michael Schenker, Uli Jon Roth, Rainbow, Divlje jagode and Living Loud. He has also worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (; December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.
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Glenn Hughes
Glenn Hughes (born in Cannock, Staffordshire, England on 21 August 1952) is a bassist and vocalist well-known as the lead vocalist for Black Sabbath during the mid 1980s, as well as playing bass and performing vocals for the Mk. III and IV line-ups of Deep Purple, besides his solo work.
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Ian Gillan
Ian Gillan (born 19 August 1945 in Hounslow, London) is an English rock music vocalist and songwriter, best known as the lead singer and lyricist for Deep Purple. During his career Gillan also fronted his own band, had a year-long stint as the vocalist for Black Sabbath, and sang the role of Jesus in the original recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar.
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Ian Paice
Ian Anderson Paice (born 29 June 1948) is an English musician, best known as the drummer of the seminal rock band Deep Purple. As of Jon Lord's departure in 2002, he is the only founding member of the band still performing with the group and the only member to appear on every album the band has released.
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Jeff Beck
Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck (born 24 June 1944) is an English rock guitarist. He is one of the three noted guitarists, along with Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, to have played with The Yardbirds. Beck also formed The Jeff Beck Group, and Beck, Bogert & Appice, besides his successful solo career.
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Jimi Jamison
Jimi Jamison (born Jimmy Wayne Jamison, August 23, 1951 in Mississippi) is a rock vocalist and songwriter, best known as the lead singer for the band Survivor from 1984-1989 and 2000-2006.
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Jimmy Barnes
James Dixon Swan (born 28 April 1956), better known as Jimmy Barnes, is a Scottish-born Australian rock singer-songwriter. His father Jim Swan was a prizefighter and his older brother John Swan is also a rock singer. It was actually John who had encouraged and taught Jim how to sing as he wasn't really interested at the time. His career as both a solo performer and as the lead vocalist with the rock band Cold Chisel has made him one of the most popular and best-selling Australian music artists of all time. The combination of 14 Australian Top 40 albums for Cold Chisel and 13 charting solo albums, including nine No. 1s, gives Barnes the highest number of hit albums of any Australian artist.
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Joe Lynn Turner
Joe Lynn Turner (August 2, 1951), is an American rock singer, best known for his work with Rainbow, Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force and Deep Purple. He played the accordion as a child, grew up with an appreciation for classic R&B; and became an accomplished guitarist in his early teens. He was ranked 84th in Hit Parader's "Heavy Metal's All-Time 100 Vocalists".
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Joe Satriani
Joseph "Joe" Satriani (born July 15, 1956 in Westbury, New York) is an Italian American multi-instrumentalist, known primarily for his work as an instrumental rock guitarist, with multiple Grammy Award nominations. Early in his career, Satriani worked as a guitar instructor, and some of his former students have achieved fame with their guitar skills (Steve Vai, Larry LaLonde, Kirk Hammett, Andy Timmons, Charlie Hunter, Kevin Cadogan, Alex Skolnick). Satriani has been a driving force in the music credited to other musicians throughout his career, as a founder of the ever-changing touring trio, G3, as well as performing in various positions with other musicians.
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Joe South
Joe South (born Joseph Alfred Souter, 28 February 1940, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
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Joe Walsh
:For other persons named Joseph/Joe Walsh, see Joseph/Joe Walsh
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John Farnham
John Peter Farnham, AO, formerly billed as Johnny Farnham, (born 1 July 1949, Dagenham, England), is an English-born Australian pop singer. He was a teen pop idol from 1964–1979, and since then he has forged a career as an adult contemporary singer. His career has mostly been as a solo artist but he replaced Glenn Shorrock as lead singer of Little River Band during 1982–1985. In September 1986 his solo single, "You're the Voice" peaked at No. 1 on the Australian singles charts. The associated album, Whispering Jack, held the No. 1 position for a total of 25 weeks, and is the highest-selling album in Australian history. Both the single and the album had Top Ten success internationally including No. 1 in Sweden.
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Jon Lord
Jon Douglas Lord (born 9 June 1941) is an English composer, pianist, and Hammond organ player.
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Keef Hartley
Keef Hartley (born Keith Hartley, 8 April 1944, Preston, Lancashire, England) is a British drummer and bandleader.
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Malcolm Arnold
Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE (21 October 1921 - 23 September 2006) was an English composer and symphonist.
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Marco de Goeij
Marco de Goeij (born, 1967) is a Dutch composer, known for having reconstructed the lost musical score for the Deep Purple song Concerto for Group and Orchestra.
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Mick Underwood
Mick Underwood (born 1945, Middlesex, England) is a British drummer best known for his work with Episode Six, Quatermass and Gillan. First playing drums at the age of 14, he was a professional musician by the time he left school. He is currently the drummer for British rock band Raw Glory.
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Mickie Most
Mickie Most (20 June 1938 — 30 May 2003) was an English record producer, with a string of hit singles with his own RAK Records, and with acts such as The Animals, The Arrows, Herman's Hermits, Donovan, Suzi Quatro and the Jeff Beck Group.
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Mothers of Invention
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Nick Simper
Nicholas John Simper (born 3 November 1945, at Frogmore House Maternity Home, Norwood Green, Southall, Middlesex) is a bass guitarist, best known as a founding member of Deep Purple.
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Paul Rodgers
Paul Bernard Rodgers (born 17 December 1949, Middlesbrough) is an English rock singer-songwriter, best known for being a member of Free and Bad Company. Both bands experienced international success in the 1970s. Before establishing a career as a solo artist, he was also a member of The Firm and The Law. He has recently toured and recorded with Queen. Rodgers goes by the nickname "The Voice". He is ranked number 55 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". Rodgers was also ranked by Hit Parader as the ninth greatest heavy metal singer of all time.
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Ritchie Blackmore
Richard Hugh "Ritchie" Blackmore (born 14 April 1945) is an English rock guitarist, known for his work in Deep Purple, in addition to his solo band Rainbow, where he was the sole constant band member through numerous personnel changes. His current folk rock duo is the Renaissance-influenced Blackmore's Night with his (now) wife Candice Night. While with Rainbow, he changed his musical approach multiple times following each lead singer's departure and it is said that the result was the confusion and alienation of many of his supporters. Blackmore started his music career as a session player in the early 1960s. He has lived in the U.S.A. since the mid-1970s. He is one of the greatest and most influential guitarists in rock history.
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Rod Evans
Rod Evans (born 19 January 1947 in Slough, Berkshire) is a former English singer and was a founding member of Deep Purple in 1968. He provided vocals for the group's first three albums, including the hit singles "Hush" and "Kentucky Woman". He was replaced by Ian Gillan in 1969.
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Roger Glover
Roger David Glover (born 30 November 1945 in Brecon) is a Welsh bassist, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer. Glover is best known as the bassist and songwriter for rock band Deep Purple.
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Roger Greenaway
Roger Greenaway (born Roger John Reginald Greenaway, 23 August 1938, Fishponds, Bristol), is a popular English songwriter, best known for his collaborations with Roger Cook.
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Ronnie James Dio
Ronald James Padavona (July 10, 1942 – May 16, 2010), better known as Ronnie James Dio, was an Italian-American heavy metal vocalist and songwriter. He performed with, amongst others, Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell, and his own band Dio. Other musical projects include the collective fundraiser Hear 'n Aid. He was widely hailed as one of the most powerful singers in heavy metal, renowned for his consistently powerful voice and for popularizing the "devil horns" hand gesture in metal culture. Prior to his death, he was collaborating on a project with former Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Vinny Appice, under the moniker Heaven & Hell, whose first studio album, The Devil You Know, was released on April 28, 2009. Dio died of stomach cancer on May 16, 2010. One of the last songs he recorded was titled "Metal Will Never Die".
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Ronnie Wood
Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood (born 1 June 1947) is an English rock guitarist and bassist best known as a former member of The Jeff Beck Group, Faces, and current member of The Rolling Stones. He is known for his characteristic slide guitar style, and also plays lap and pedal steel guitar.
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Scorpions (band)
Scorpions is a heavy metal/hard rock band from Hannover, Germany, known for their 1980s rock anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and their singles "No One Like You", "Send Me an Angel", "Still Loving You", and "Wind of Change". The band was ranked #46 on VH1's Greatest Artists of Hard Rock program. "Rock You Like a Hurricane" is also #18 on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs. On January 24, 2010, after 45 years of performing, the band announced that they will be retiring after touring in support of their new album Sting in the Tail. Scorpions have sold between 100 and 150 million albums worldwide.
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Screaming Lord Sutch
David Edward Sutch (10 November 1940 – 16 June 1999), also known as the 3rd Earl of Harrow or simply Screaming Lord Sutch, was an English musician and aspirant politician. He was the founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party.
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Steve Morse
Steven J. "Steve" Morse (born July 28, 1954) is an American guitarist, best known as the founder of the Dixie Dregs, and the guitar player in Deep Purple since 1994.
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Ted Nugent
Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent (born December 13, 1948) is a guitarist and vocalist from Detroit, Michigan. He originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes, before embarking on a lengthy solo career. He is also noted for his conservative political views and his ardent defense of hunting, conservation, and gun ownership rights.
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Terry Reid
Terry Reid (born 13 November 1949, Huntingdon, England) is an English rock vocalist and guitarist. He has performed with high profile musicians, as a supporting act, a session musician, and sideman.
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Tommy Bolin
Thomas Richard "Tommy" Bolin (August 1, 1951, Sioux City, Iowa - December 4, 1976) was an American-born guitarist who played with Zephyr (from 1969 to 1971), The James Gang (from 1973 through 1974), Deep Purple (from 1975 to 1976), and his solo work. He died of a drug overdose in 1976.
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England
England () is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
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Hamburg
Hamburg (; , local pronunciation Low German/Low Saxon: Hamborg ) is the second-largest city in Germany and the eighth-largest city in the European Union. The city is home to over 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg Metropolitan Region (including parts of the neighboring Federal States of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein) has more than 4.3 million inhabitants. The port of Hamburg is the third-largest port in Europe (third to Port of Antwerp and Rotterdam), and the eighth largest in the world.
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Hertford
Hertford ( or ) is the county town of Hertfordshire, England, and is also a civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of the county. In 2006 East Hertfordshire was ranked within the top 10 places to live in the UK following a survey commissioned by the Channel 4 TV station. Forming a civil parish, the 2001 census put the population of Hertford at about 24,180. Recent estimates are that it is now around 28,000. The name is Anglo Saxon and means the ford frequented by harts or stags.
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Knebworth
Knebworth is a village and civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England immediately south of Stevenage. The civil parish [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid;=104090557303603084204.000447b83ce73e25f5812&hl;=en&ie;=UTF8&z;=13&iwloc;=000447b855f6d31a600ab covers an area] between the villages of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and Langley, and encompasses the village of Knebworth, the small village of Old Knebworth and Knebworth House.
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Ontario, California
Ontario is a city located in San Bernardino County, California, United States. As of the 2000 Census, the city had a total population of 170,373. It is the home of LA/Ontario International Airport and the Ontario Mills. It is also the former home of the Ontario Motor Speedway. It takes its name from the Ontario Model Colony development established in 1882 by the Canadian engineer George Chaffey and his brothers William Chaffey and Charles Chaffey. They named the settlement after their home province of Ontario, Canada.
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Saltburn-by-the-Sea
Saltburn-by-the-Sea is a seaside resort in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. The town is around east of Middlesbrough, and had a population of 5,912 at the 2001 Census.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
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Deep Purple Filmography
- Live 8 (2005)
- Deep Purple in Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra (2000)
- Der kopflose Falke (1971)
RELEASE
ALBUMS
The Best of Deep Purple
(Released 2010)
- Strange Kind of Woman
- Smoke on the Water
- Black Night
- Child in Time
- Knocking at Your Back Door
- Woman From Tokyo
- Lazy
- Burn
- Mistreated
- Highway Star
Singles & E.P. Anthology '68-'80
(Released 2010)
- Hush
- One More Rainy Day
- Kentucky Woman
- Wring That Neck
- Emmaretta
- Bird Has Flown (US B-Side)
- Help (French A-Side)
- Hallelujah
- April, Part 1
- Speed King (Dutch A-Side, Piano version)
- Black Night
- Living Wreck (German B-Side)
- Strange Kind of Woman
- I'm Alone
- Fireball
- Demon's Eye
- Never Before
- When a Blind Man Cries
- Lazy (Japanese B-Side)
Deep Purple in Rock
(Released 2009)
Deep Purple & Friends
(Released 2008)
- Smoke on the Water (feat. The London Symphony Orchestra)
- Child in Time
- Black Night
- Queen of England
- Love Is All
- Wring That Neck (feat. The London Symphony Orchestra)
- Ritual
- Woman From Tokyo
- Speed King
- Via Miami
- Killing the Dragon
- Concerto for Group & Orchestra, Part 2 (feat. The London Symphony Orchestra)
Greatest Hits
(Released 2008)
- Smoke on the Water (live)
- Highway Star (live)
- Child in Time (live)
- The Battle Rages On
- Woman from Tokyo (live)
- Love Conquers All
- King of Dreams
- The Aviator
- Anya (live)
- Perfect Strangers (live)
- Fortuneteller
Rapture of the Deep
(Released 2008)
- Money Talks
- Girls Like That
- Wrong Man
- Rapture of the Deep
- Clearly Quite Absurd
- Don't Let Go
- Back to Back
- Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
- MTV
- Junkyard Blues
- Before Time Began
Deep Purple
(Released 2008)
- Chasing Shadows
- Blind
- Lalena
- Fault Line
- The Painter
- Why Didn't Rosemary
- Bird Has Flown
- April
- The Bird Has Flown (alternate a-side version)
- Emmaretta (studio b-side)
- Emmaretta (BBC Top Gear session)
- Lalena (BBC radio session)
- The Painter (BBC radio session)
Who Do We Think We Are
(Released 2008)
Shades of Deep Purple
(Released 2008)
- And the Address
- Hush
- One More Rainy Day
- Prelude: Happiness / I'm So Glad
- Mandrake Root
- Love Help Me
- Hey Joe
- Shadows (album out take)
- Love Help Me (instrumental version)
- Help (alternate take)
- Hey Joe (BBC Top Gear session)
- Hush (live)
- Help
Hit Collection
(Released 2007)
- Smoke on the Water (live)
- Highway Star (live)
- Child in Time (live)
- The Battle Rages On
- Woman From Tokyo (live)
- Love Conquers All
- King of Dreams
- The Aviator
- Anya (live)
- Perfect Strangers (live)
- Fortuneteller
Deep Purple and Friends
(Released 2006)
- Smoke on the Water (live)
- Beyond Emily
- Clear Air Turbulence
- Love Is All (live)
- Ted the Mechanic (live)
- Cayman Island
- Burning
- Woman From Tokyo (live)
- Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
- Nothing Else
- Concerto for Group and Orchestra: Movement I
Purplexed
(Released 2006)
- Highway Star (live)
- The Battle Rages On
- King of Dreams
- Speed King (live)
- The Aviator
- Love Conquers All
- Anya
- Loosen My Strings
- Solitaire
- Child in Time (live)
- Smoke on the Water (live)
Speed King: The Fastest Tracks
(Released 2005)
- Speed King (live)
- A Twist in the Tale
- Highway Star (live)
- Wicked Ways
- The Battle Rages On (live)
- Cascades: I'm Not Your Lover
- Black Night (live)
- Vavoom: Ted the Mechanic
- A Castle Full of Rascals
- Too Much Is Not Enough
- Rosa's Cantina
- Anya
The Platinum Collection
(Released 2005)
- Hush
- Mandrake Root
- Hey Joe
- Kentucky Woman
- Wring That Neck
- Shield
- Bird Has Flown
- Emmaretta
- Hallelujah
- Black Night (single version)
- Speed King
- Flight of the Rat
- Child in Time
Forever: Very Best 1968–2003
(Released 2005)
- Woman From Tokyo
- Burn
- Speed King
- Knocking at Your Back Door
- Mistreated
- Smoke on the Water
- Haunted
- Comin' Home
- Black Night
- When a Blind Man Cries
- Soldier of Fortune
- Ramshackle Man
- Fireball
- Child in Time
Purple Rainbows
(Released 2004)
- Smoke on the Water
- Burn (single edit)
- I Surrender
- All Night Long
- Night Games
- Don't Break My Heart Again
- Love Hunter
- Trouble
- New Orleans
- Hungry for Heaven
- You Keep on Moving (single edit)
- Man on the Silver Mountain
- Stargazer
- Knocking at Your Back Door
- Perfect Strangers
- Hush ('88 version)
The Early Years
(Released 2004)
- ...and the Address Is (remix)
- Hush (Monitor mix)
- Mandrake Root
- I'm So Glad (remix)
- Hey Joe (remix)
- Kentucky Woman (alternate take)
- Listen, Learn, Read On
- Shield
- Wring That Neck (BBC session)
- Anthem
- Bird Has Flown
- Blind (remix)
- Why Didn't Rosemary
- Lalena (instrumental)
The Universal Masters Collection: Classic Deep Purple
(Released 2003)
- Knocking at Your Back Door
- Perfect Strangers
- Son of Alerik
- Bad Attitude
- The Unwritten Law
- Dead or Alive
- Black Night (live)
- Child in Time (live)
- Smoke on the Water (live)
- The Spanish Archer
Purple Hits: The Best of Deep Purple
(Released 2003)
- Hush
- Kentucky Woman
- Wring That Neck
- Black Night
- Speed King
- Child in Time
- Fireball
- No One Came
- Strange Kind of Woman (single version)
- I'm Alone
- Pictures of Home
- Smoke on the Water
- Lazy
- When a Blind Man Cries
- Highway Star
Purple and Other Colours
(Released 2003)
- Take It Off the Top (feat. Deep Purple & the LSO)
- You Make Me Feel So Good
- The Bargain Basement
- Wait a While (feat. Sam Brown & the LSO)
- Clouds and Rain
- Money Lender
- Light of My Life (feat. Eddie Hardin)
- Concerto for Group and Orchestra: Movement I
The Essential
(Released 2003)
- Woman From Tokyo
- Fireball
- Strange Kind of Woman (live)
- Never Before
- Black Night (live)
- Speed King
- Smoke on the Water (live)
- Child in Time (live)
Bananas
(Released 2003)
- House of Pain
- Sun Goes Down
- Haunted
- Razzle Dazzle
- Silver Tongue
- Walk On
- Picture of Innocence
- I Got Your Number
- Never a Word
- Bananas
- Doing It Tonight
- Contact Lost
Listen, Learn, Read On
(Released 2002)
- Keep a Knockin'
- You'll Never Stop Me Loving You
- Only Time Will Tell
- Send for That Girl
- Porcupine Juice
- I Can See Through You
- Mr. Universe
- Medusa
- Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
- See My People Come Together
- Hush
- Help
- Shield
- Listen, Learn, Read On
- Kentucky Woman
- Playground
- Emmaretta
- The Bird Has Flown
The Very Best Deep Purple Album Ever
(Released 2001)
- Woman From Tokyo
- Child in Time
- Black Night
- Smoke on the Water
- Fireball
- Hush
- Demon's Eve
- Speed King
- Kentucky Woman
- You Keep on Moving
- Super Trouper
- Strange Kind of Woman (live)
- Highway Star (live)
1420 Beachwood Drive: The California Rehearsals, Part 2
(Released 2000)
The Book of Taliesyn
(Released 2000)
- Listen, Learn, Read On
- Wring That Neck
- Kentucky Woman
- Exposition / We Can Work It Out
- Shield
- Anthem
- River Deep, Mountain High
- Oh No No No (studio out take)
- It's All Over (BBC Top Gear session)
- Hey Bop a Re Bop (BBC Top Gear session)
- Wring That Neck (BBC Top Gear session)
- Playground (remixed instrumental studio out take)
Very Best of Deep Purple
(Released 2000)
- Hush
- Kentucky Woman (single version)
- Black Night
- Speed King (U.S. album version)
- Child in Time
- Strange Kind of Woman
- Fireball
- Demon's Eye
- Highway Star
- Smoke on the Water
- Space Truckin'
- Woman From Tokyo
- Burn
- Stormbringer
- Knocking at Your Back Door
Extended Versions: Encore Collection
(Released 2000)
- Burn
- Lady Luck
- Highway Star / Not Fade Away
- This Time Around
- I'm Going Down
- Highway Star
- Smoke on the Water
- Georgia on My Mind
- Tommy Bolin
- Love Child
In Rock / Power House
(Released 1999)
- Speed King
- Bloodsucker
- Child in Time
- Flight of the Rat
- Into the Fire
- Living Wreck
- Hard Lovin' Man
- Painted Horse
- Hush
- Wring That Neck
- Child in Time
- Cry Free
Under the Gun
(Released 1999)
- Highway Star (live)
- Strange Kind of Woman (live)
- Under the Gun
- Knocking at Your Back Door
- Perfect Strangers
- Child in Time (live)
- The Unwritten Law
- Call of the Wild
- Woman From Tokyo (live)
- Hush
- Dead or Alive
- Hard Lovin' Woman
- Mad Dog
- Black Night (live)
- Smoke on the Water (live)
Perfect Strangers
(Released 1999)
- Knocking at Your Back Door
- Under the Gun
- Nobody's Home
- Mean Streak
- Perfect Strangers
- A Gypsy's Kiss
- Wasted Sunsets
- Hungry Daze
- Not Responsible
- Son of Alerik
Shades 1968–1998
(Released 1999)
- Hush
- Shadows (1968 demo version)
- Love Help Me (1968 instrumental demo version)
- Kentucky Woman (single version)
- Anthem
- River Deep, Mountain High (single version)
- Emmaretta
- The Bird Has Flown (single version)
- Hallelujah (I am the Preacher)
- Speed King (full length U.K. version)
- Child in Time
- Cry Free (1970 outtake / Roger Glover remix)
- Black Night (full length U.K. version)
- Jam Stew (1979 outtake)
- Into the Fire (1970 live)
- No No No (1971 live)
- Help
The House of Blue Light
(Released 1999)
- Bad Attitude
- The Unwritten Law
- Call of the Wild
- Mad Dog
- Black & White
- Hard Lovin' Woman
- The Spanish Archer
- Strangeways
- Mitzi Dupree
- Dead or Alive
30: Very Best Of
(Released 1998)
- Hush (30th Anniversary Remaster)
- Black Night (single version Remaster)
- Speed King (single version)
- Child in Time (single edit)
- Strange Kind of Woman (single version)
- Fireball
- Demon's Eye
- Smoke on the Water (25th Anniversary Remaster)
- Highway Star ('97 remix)
- When a Blind Man Cries ('97 remix)
- Never Before (single edit)
- Woman From Tokyo (single edit)
- Burn (single edit)
- Stormbringer
- You Keep on Moving (single edit)
- Perfect Strangers (single version)
- Ted the Mechanic
- Any Fule Kno That
Machine Head / Who Do We Think We Are
(Released 1998)
- Never Before
- Smoke on the Water
- Lazy
- Space Truckin'
- Woman From Tokyo
- Mary Long
- Super Trouper
- Smooth Dancer
- Rat Bat Blue
- Place in Line
- Our Lady
- Pictures of Home
- Highway Star
- Maybe I'm a Leo
Child in Time
(Released 1998)
- Nobody's Home
- Mean Streak
- Wasted Sunsets
- Hungry Daze
- The Unwritten Law
- Mad Dog
- The Spanish Archer
- Mitzi Dupree
- Woman From Tokyo (live)
- Child in Time (live)
- Strange Kind of Woman (live)
- Highway Star (live)
Abandon
(Released 1998)
- Any Fule Kno That
- Almost Human
- Don't Make Me Happy
- Seventh Heaven
- Watching the Sky
- Fingers to the Bone
- Jack Ruby
- She Was
- Whatsername
- '69
- Evil Louie
- Bludsucker
Knocking at Your Back Door
(Released 1997)
- Knocking at Your Back Door
- Perfect Strangers
- Under the Gun
- Black and White
- Hard Lovin' Woman
- Strange Kind of Woman
- Bad Attitude
- Smoke on the Water
- Nobody's Home
- Hungry Daze
- The Spanish Archer
- Woman From Tokyo
- Highway Star
- A Gypsy's Kiss
The Collection
(Released 1997)
- Mandrake Root
- Wring That Neck
- Living Wreck
- Black Night
- Smoke on the Water (live)
- Demon's Eye
- Lady Double Dealer
- Comin' Home
- Never Before (live)
Purpendicular
(Released 1996)
- Vavoom: Ted the Mechanic
- Loosen My Strings
- Soon Forgotten
- Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
- Cascades: I'm Not Your Lover
- The Aviator
- Rosa's Cantina
- A Castle Full of Rascals
- A Touch Away
- Hey Cisco
- Somebody Stole My Guitar
- The Purpendicular Waltz
- [untitled]
- Don't Hold Your Breath
Smoke on the Water: The Best of
(Released 1994)
- Hush
- Kentucky Woman (single edit)
- The Bird Has Flown (single version)
- Hallelujah
- Black Night
- Child in Time
- Speed King (Dutch single version: alternate take)
- Strange Kind of Woman (single edit)
- Fireball (single edit)
- Smoke on the Water (US single edit)
- Highway Star
- Never Before (single edit)
- Space Truckin'
- Woman from Tokyo (single edit)
- Might Just Take Your Life (single edit)
- Burn (single edit)
- Stormbringer
- You Keep on Moving (single edit)
Progression
(Released 1993)
- Perfect Strangers (single edit)
- Under the Gun
- Knocking at Your Back Door (single edit)
- A Gypsy's Kiss
- Not Responsible
- Black Night (live)
- Smoke on the Water (live)
- Hush (live jam)
- Bad Attitude
- Dead or Alive
- Hard Lovin' Woman
- Call of the Wild
Singles A's and B's
(Released 1993)
- Hush
- One More Rainy Day
- Kentucky Woman (single edit)
- Emmaretta
- The Bird Has Flown (single version)
- Hallelujah
- Speed King
- Black Night
- Strange Kind of Woman (single edit)
- I'm Alone
- Fireball (single edit)
- Demon's Eye
- Never Before (single edit)
- When a Blind Man Cries
- Smoke on the Water (US single edit)
- Black Night (live)
- Might Just Take Your Life (single edit)
- Coronarias Redig
- You Keep on Moving (single edit)
- Love Child
The Battle Rages On...
(Released 1993)
- The Battle Rages On
- Lick It Up
- Anya
- Talk About Love
- Time to Kill
- Ramshackle Man
- A Twist in the Tale
- Nasty Piece of Work
- Solitaire
- One Man's Meat
Hush
(Released 1993)
- Hush
- And the Address
- Prelude: Happiness / I'm So Glad
- Hey Joe
- Mandrake Root
- Help!
- Love Help Me
- One More Rainy Day
- River Deep, Mountain High
Rarities 1967–1991
(Released 1992)
- The Way You Look Tonight
- True Love Is Funny Than Way
- Big Fat Spider
- Here, There and Everywhere
- You'll Never Stop Me Loving You
- I Shall Be Released
- Playground
- Green Bullfrog
- Little Chak Blue
- Behind the Slime
- Painted Horse
- The Stallion
- Call, No Answer
- I'm a Lover
- Son of Alerik
- Fire, Ice and Dynamite
- Slow Down Sister
Knocking at Your Back Door: The Best of Deep Purple in the 80's
(Released 1992)
- Knocking at Your Back Door
- Bad Attitude
- Child in Time
- Nobody's Home
- Black Night
- Perfect Strangers
- The Unwritten Law
- Call of the Wild
- Hush
- Smoke on the Water
- Space Truckin'
The Compact Disc Anthology
(Released 1991)
- Hush
- Mandrake Root
- Shield
- Wring That Neck
- The Bird Has Flown
- Bloodsucker
- Speed King
- Black Night
- Child in Time
- Fireball (single edit)
- Strange Kind of Woman (live)
- No One Came
- Highway Star
Black Night - Best
(Released 1990)
- Strange Kind of Woman
- Black Night
- Fireball
- Speed King
- Hallelujah
- Hush
- Woman From Tokyo
- Smoke on the Water
- Burn
- Stormbringer
- Child in Time
- Super Trouper
- April
- Highway Star
Powerhouse
(Released 1990)
Slaves and Masters
(Released 1990)
- King of Dreams
- The Cut Runs Deep
- Fire in the Basement
- Truth Hurts
- Breakfast in Bed
- Love Conquers All
- Fortuneteller
- Too Much Is Not Enough
- Wicked Ways
Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple
(Released 1990)
- Black Night
- Speed King
- Fireball
- Strange Kind of Woman
- Child in Time
- Woman From Tokyo
- Highway Star
- Space Truckin'
- Burn
- Stormbringer
- Demon's Eye
- Smoke on the Water
Дым над водой
(Released 1989)
- Чёрная ночь
- Шаровая молния
- Космическое путешествие
- Ребенок в наше время
- Странная женщина
- Король cкорости
- Звезда над шоссе
- Дым над водой
New, Live and Rare
(Released 1989)
- Hush
- Painted Horse
- Cry Free
- Child in Time
- Strange Kind of Woman
- I'm Alone
- When a Blind Man Cries
- Wring That Neck
Best (Super Star Hit Collection, Volume 15)
(Released 1985)
- Highway Star
- Smoke on the Water
- Never Before
- Space Truckin'
- Strange Kind of Woman
- Burn
- Black Night
- Woman From Tokyo
- Speed King
- Bloodsucker
- Flight of the Rat
- Fireball
Greatest Purple
(Released 1985)
- Black Night
- Strange Kind of Woman
- Child in Time
- Woman From Tokyo
- Soldier of Fortune
- Fireball
- Demon's Eye
- Into the Fire
- Hush
- April
The Deep Purple Singles
(Released 1980)
- Hush
- One More Rainy Day
- Emmaretta
- Wring That Neck
- Hallelujah
- April, Part 1
- Black Night
- Speed King
- Strange Kind of Woman
- I'm Alone
- Demon's Eye
- Fireball
- Smoke on the Water
- Space Truckin'
When We Rock, We Rock and When We Roll, We Roll
(Released 1978)
- Space Truckin'
- Kentucky Woman
- Hard Road (Wring That Neck)
- Burn
- Woman From Tokyo
- Hush
- Smoke on the Water (live)
- Highway Star (live)
24 Carat Purple
(Released 1975)
- Woman From Tokyo
- Fireball
- Strange Kind of Woman
- Never Before
- Black Night (live)
- Speed King
- Smoke on the Water (live)
- Child in Time (live)
Mark Iⅈ
(Released 1973)
- And the Address
- Hey Joe
- Hush
- Emmaretta
- Chasing Shadows
- Bird Has Flown
- Why Didn't Rosemary
- Hard Road (Wring That Neck)
- Shield
- Mandrake Root
- Kentucky Woman
- April
- Child in Time
- Soldier of Fortune
- Wasted Sunsets
- When a Blind Man Cries
- Lalena
- You Keep on Moving
- Love Conquers All
- Place in Line
- Hallelujah
- Mistreated
- The Gypsy
- Mitzi Dupree
- Anthem
- Holy Man
- This Time Around / Owed to "G"
- Highway Star
- Speed King
- Into the Fire
- Living Wreck
- Fireball
- Strange Kind of Woman
- Woman from Tokyo
- Super Trouper
- Pictures of Home
- Never Before
- Smoke on the Water
- Space Truckin'
- Hush
- Might Just Take Your Life
- You Fool No One
- Burn
- Black Night (edit version)
- Black Night (live)
- When a Blind Man Cries
- I'm Alone
- Painted Horse
- Cry Free
- Speed King (edit 1)
- Speed King (edit 2)
- Demon's Eye
- Highway Star (edited version)
- Smoke on the Water (Mono)
- Smoke on the Water (live)
- Lazy
- Woman From Tokyo
- Burn (edited version)
- Burn (edit 2)
- Coronarias Redig
- Emmaretta
- Burn
- Might Just Take Your Life
- Lay Down, Stay Down
- Sail Away
- You Fool No One
- What's Goin' on Here
- Mistreated
- "A" 200
- Stormbringer
- Love Don't Mean a Thing
- Holy Man
- Hold On
- Lady Double Dealer
- You Can't Do It Right
- Highball Shooter
- The Gypsy
- Soldier of Fortune
- Stormbringer (live on a Final European Tour at Graz 1975)
- Gypsy (live on a Final European Tour at Paris 1975)
- Mistreated (live on a Final European Tour at Paris 1975)
- Coronarias Redig (1974 single version)
- Speed King
- Strange Kind of Woman
- Black Night
- Fireball
- Burn
- Highway Star
- Smoke on the Water
- Hush
- Emmaretta
- Woman From Tokyo
- Demon's Eye
- Stormbringer
- Child in Time
- Child in Time
- Soldier of Fortune
- Wasted Sunsets
- When a Blind Man Cries
- Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
- You Keep on Moving
- Love Conquers All
- Mistreated
- The Gypsy
- Mitzi Dupree
- Lalena
- Hey Joe
- Son of Alerik
- If You've Gotta Pick a Baby (feat. The Outlaws)
- You'll Never Stop Me Loving You
- I Take What I Want
- I Can See Through You
- Hush
- Black Night
- Into the Fire
- Burn
- Snowbound
- Love Is All
- You Keep on Moving (single edit)
- Kill the King
- Arabella
- LA Cutoff
- The Stallion
- Nervous
- Cloud & Rain
- Perfect Strangers (live)
- Northwinds
- Smoke on the Water
- Stormbringer
- The Mob Rules
- My Kind of Woman
- She Took My Breath Away
- Message in a Bottle
- Whitesnake
- Shake the Devil
- Hunter of the Heart
- Clear Air
- Time & Again
- Way Back to the Bone
- Kill the King
- Speed King (live)
- A Castle Full of Rascals
- Rosa's Cantina
- A Touch Away
- The Aviator
- Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
- Hey Cisco
- Vavoom: Ted the Mechanic
- Highway Star (live)
- Somebody Stole My Guitar
- Hush
- Black Night
- Speed King
- Smoke on the Water
- Fireball
- Strange Kind of Woman
- Child in Time
- Woman From Tokyo
- Burn
- Stormbringer
- Love Child
- Perfect Strangers
- Knocking at Your Back Door
- Highway Star
- Introduction
- Highway Star
- Ramshackle Man
- Black Night
- Maybe I'm a Leo
- A Twist in the Tale
- Perfect Strangers
- Pictures of Home
- Knocking at Your Back Door
- Anyone's Daughter
- Child in Time
- Hush
- Lalena
- River Deep, Mountain High
- Help
- The Shield
- Listen, Learn, Read On
- Kentucky Woman
- Anthem
- Hey Joe
- Mandrake Root
- Bird Has Flown
- I'm So Glad
- Comin' Home (2010 Kevin Shirley Remix)
- Lady Luck (2010 Kevin Shirley Remix)
- Gettin' Tighter (2010 Kevin Shirley Remix)
- Dealer (2010 Kevin Shirley Remix)
- I Need Love (2010 Kevin Shirley Remix)
- You Keep On Moving (2010 Kevin Shirley Remix)
- Love Child (2010 Kevin Shirley Remix)
- This Time Around (2010 Kevin Shirley Remix)
- Owed To "G" (2010 Kevin Shirley Remix)
- Drifter (2010 Kevin Shirley Remix)
- Same In L.A. (2010 Kevin Shirley Remix)
- Bolin / Paice Jam (2010 Kevin Shirley Remix)
- Hush
- One More Rainy Day
- Emmaretta
- Wring That Neck
- Hallelujah
- April, Part I
- Black Night
- Speed King
- Strange Kind of Woman
- I'm Alone
- Demon's Eye
- Fireball
- Smoke on the Water
- Woman From Tokyo
- Burn
- Child in Time
- Fireball
- Stormbringer
- Never Before
- Gettin' Tighter
- Black Night
- Highway Star
- Knocking at Your Back Door
- Perfect Strangers
- Son of Alerik
- The Unwritten Law
- Dead or Alive
- Black Night (live)
- Child in Time (live)
- Smoke on the Water (live)
- Bad Attitude
- Black Night
- Space Truckin'
- Smoke on the Water
- Soldier of Fortune
- Woman From Tokyo
- Child in Time
- Speed King
- Strange Kind of Woman
- Hush
- When a Blind Man Cries
- Fireball
- Burn (single edit)
- Stormbringer
- Perfect Strangers (live)
- Highway Star (live)
- Smoke on the Water (live)
- Hush
- Smoke on the Water
- Speed King
- Flight of the Rat
- Pictures of Home
- Demon's Eye
- When a Blind Man Cries
- Woman From Tokyo
- Space Truckin'
- Black Night
- Fireball
- Highway Star
- Child in Time
- Hush
- Hallelujah
- Into the Fire
- Child in Time
- Fireball
- Smoke on the Water
- Woman From Tokyo
- Mary Long
- Sail Away
- Burn
- Soldier of Fortune
- Stormbringer
- You Keep on Moving
- Comin' Home
- Perfect Strangers
- Maybe I'm a Leo
- Hush
- Black Night (live)
- Strange Kind of Woman (live)
- Comin' Home
- Mary Long
- Fireball
- Living Wreck
- Drifter
- Woman From Tokyo
- Super Trouper
- Highway Star (live)
- Child in Time (live)
- Hush
- Black Night
- Speed King
- Child in Time
- Strange Kind of Woman
- Fireball
- Demon's Eye
- Smoke on the Water
- Highway Star
- When a Blind Man Cries
- Never Before
- Woman From Tokyo
- Burn (single edit)
- Stormbringer
- You Keep on Moving
- Perfect Strangers
- Ted the Mechanic
- Any Fule Kno That
- Knocking at Your Back Door
- Nobody's Home
- Hush
- Smoke on the Water (live version)
- Woman From Tokyo (live version)
- Wasted Sunsets
- Gypsy's Kiss
- Strangeways
- Mitzi DuPree
- Dead or Alive
- Child in Time
- When a Blind Man Cries
- Place in Line
- Mistreated
- Holy Man
- Gypsy
- Soldier of Fortune
- This Time Around
- Keep on Moving
- Perfect Strangers
- Wasted Sunsets
- Mitzi Dupree
- King of Dreams
- Fortune Teller
- Love Conquers All
- Black Night
- Child in Time
- Speed King
- Strange Kind of Woman
- Fireball
- Smoke on the Water
- Highway Star
- Never Before (single edit)
- Space Truckin'
- Woman From Tokyo
- Might Just Take Your Life
- Burn (single edit)
- Stormbringer
- Soldier of Fortune
- Hush
- Kentucky Woman (single edit)
- Soldier of Fortune
- Smoke on the Water
- When a Blind Man Cries
- Burn (single edit)
- Black Night
- Woman From Tokyo
- Child in Time
- Hush
- Into the Fire
- Space Truckin'
- Might Just Take Your Life
- Never Before (single edit)
- Fireball (single edit)
- Strange Kind of Woman
- Speed King
- Holy Man
- Stormbringer
- Highway Star
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Deep Purple-Child in Time
Lyrics: Sweet child in time, you'll see the line Line that's drawn between good and bad See the blind man shooting at the world Bullets flying, ooh taking toll If you've been bad - Oh Lord I bet you have And you've not been hit oh by flying lead You'd better close your eyes, aahaouho bow...
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Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
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- Duration: 5:25
- Published: 16 Jun 2009
- Uploaded: 04 Jan 2012
- Author: DeepPurpleVEVO
Music video by Deep Purple performing Perfect Strangers. (C) 1984 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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![Deep Purple - Highway Star[Original Live]](http://web.archive.org./web/20120209052444im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/KgZSnAkQc4c/0.jpg "Deep Purple - Highway Star[Original Live]")
Deep Purple - Highway Star[Original Live]
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- Duration: 7:24
- Published: 17 Jan 2007
- Uploaded: 05 Jan 2012
- Author: elvisking67
1972
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Deep Purple - Burn
Live at the California Jam 6th April 1974 at the Ontario Speedway Los Angeles. Please check my other DP videos and slideshows, lots more to come soon. Thanks.
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Child In Time - Deep Purple
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- Duration: 9:38
- Published: 25 May 2010
- Uploaded: 05 Jan 2012
- Author: deeppurpleos
Performed in front of a live TV audience , Deep Purple storm through the amazing song 'Child In Time'. This song features the classic Mk2 line up of Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice/Blackmore
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Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
Live at the California Jam 6th April 1974 at the Ontario Speedway Los Angeles. We all came out to Montreux On the Lake Geneva shoreline To make records with a mobile We didn't have much time Frank Zappa and the Mothers Were at the best place around But some stupid with a flare gun Burned the place to the ground Smoke on the water, fire in the sky They burned down the gambling house It died with an awful sound Funky Claude was running in and out Pulling kids out the ground When it all was over We had to find another place But Swiss time was running out It seemed that we would lose the race Smoke on the water, fire in the sky We ended up at the Grand Hotel It was empty cold and bare But with the Rolling truck Stones thing just outside Making our music there With a few red lights and a few old beds We make a place to sweat No matter what we get out of this I know we'll never forget Smoke on the water, fire in the sky
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Deep Purple - Sometimes I feel like screaming
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- Duration: 6:52
- Published: 16 Oct 2006
- Uploaded: 05 Jan 2012
- Author: nirvana1108
such an incredible play
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Deep Purple - Hush
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- Duration: 3:23
- Published: 16 Jun 2009
- Uploaded: 05 Jan 2012
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Music video by Deep Purple performing Hush. (C) 1988 The Island Def Jam Music Group
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DEEP PURPLE - LAZY - LIVE 1972 MACHINE HEAD TOUR
You're lazy just stay in bed You're lazy just stay in bed You don't want no money You don't want no bread If you're drowning you don't clutch no straw If you're drowning you don't clutch no straw You don't want to live you don't want to cry no more Well my trying ain't done no good I said my trying ain't done no good You don't make no effort no not like you should Lazy you just stay in bed Lazy you just stay in bed You don't want no money You don't want no bread
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Deep Purple-Burn
Lyrics: The sky is red, I dont understand, Past midnight I still see the land. People are sayin the woman is damned, She makes you burn with a wave of her hand. The citys a blaze, the towns on fire. The womans flames are reaching higher. We were fools, we called her liar. All I hear is burn! I didnt believe she was devils sperm. She said, curse you all, youll never learn! When I leave theres no return. The people laughed till she said, burn! Warning came, no one cared. Earth was shakin, we stood and stared. When it came no one was spared. Still I hear burn! You know we had no time, We could not even try. You know we had no time. You know we had no time, We could not even try. You know we had no time. The sky is red, I dont understand, Past midnight I still see the land. People are sayin the woman is damned, She makes you burn with a wave of her hand. Warning came, no one cared. Earth was shakin, we stood and stared. When it came no one was spared. Still I hear burn!
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Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water (From "Live At Montreux 2006" DVD)
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- Duration: 6:28
- Published: 06 Jun 2008
- Uploaded: 05 Jan 2012
- Author: eaglerocktv
For more info - www.eagle-rock.com Few bands are more closely associated with Montreux than Deep Purple and there was simply no other contender when it came to choosing the act to headline the closing night of the 40th Montreux Festival in 2006. The band duly delivered one of their finest live performances, sprinkling songs from their latest album Rapture Of The Deep through a set chock full of their classic tracks. There was even a brand new song Too Much Fun written especially for the occasion and, of course, a show-stopping performance of Smoke On The Water.
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Deep Purple - Lazy (1993)
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- Duration: 7:15
- Published: 02 Mar 2007
- Uploaded: 04 Jan 2012
- Author: Fragellant
From "Come Hell Or High Water" record, performed in 1993, just before Blackmore announced his decision to leave the band. With a powerful drum solo from Paice. Birmingham, England, on November 9, 1993 Liked this clip? Support them by buying the original DVD; www.amazon.com
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Deep purple-Mistreated
Deep Purple-Mistreated ('74 california jam)
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Deep Purple - Child in Time | Live 1970
A live recording from 1970. The best music is from the 70s!
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Speed King - Deep Purple
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Doing Their Things - 1970 www.deeppurpleforo.com
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Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
Deep Purple live at Montreux Courtesy of Eagle Vision.
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Smoke on the water - Deep Purple (LIVE)
deep purple live, enjoy it
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Deep Purple - Highway Star
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Die komplette Beat Club-Folge mit diesem Auftritt jetzt im iTunes Store erhältlich! clk.tradedoubler.com Früher Hardrock mit Deep Purple live im Beat Club am 24.06.1972 und in der legendären Mark II Besetzung mit Ian Gillan (v), Ritchie Blackmore (g), Jon Lord (o), Roger Glover (b) und Ian Paice (d). Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, Deep Purple apply to be the pioneers of hard rock and heavy metal. Although the band went through many line-up changes - labeled Mark I to IV - the Beat Club performance shows the legendary second line-up with Ian Gillan's howling vocals, Ritchie Blackmore's fast guitar, Jon Lord's organ and the rhythm section of Roger Glover (bass) and Ian Paice (drums).
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Deep Purple - HELP 1968 HD
Very young!!!!!! Rod Evans Nick Dimper Jon Lord Ian Paice Ritchie Blackmore
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Deep Purple - Mistreated HD 1974 (Live in California)
California Jamming! Ritchie Blackmore(Gtr), David Coverdale (vcl), Glenn Hughes (bss/vcl), Jon Lord (kbr) and Ian Paice (drm)
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| Coordinates | °′″N°′″N |
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| name | Deep Purple |
| landscape | yes |
| background | group_or_band |
| alias | Roundabout |
| genre | Hard rock, heavy metal, , progressive rock |
| origin | Hertford, England, United Kingdom |
| years active | 1968–1976, 1984–present |
| label | Tetragrammaton, Warner Bros., Polydor, BMG, EMI, Edel |
| associated acts | The Outlaws, Episode Six, Rainbow, Paice, Ashton & Lord, Black Sabbath, Whitesnake, Blackmore's Night, Dixie Dregs, Living Loud, Angelfire |
| website | Official website |
| current members | Ian Paice Roger Glover Ian Gillan Steve Morse Don Airey |
| past members | Former members }} |
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members believe that their music cannot be categorised as belonging to any one genre. They were once listed by the ''Guinness Book of World Records'' as "the loudest pop group", and have sold over 100 million albums worldwide. Deep Purple were ranked #22 on VH1's ''Greatest Artists of Hard Rock'' programme.
The band has gone through many line-up changes and an eight-year hiatus (1976–84). The 1968–76 line-ups are commonly labelled Mark I, II, III and IV. Their second and most commercially successful line-up featured Ian Gillan (vocals), Jon Lord (keyboards), Roger Glover (bass), Ian Paice (drums) and Ritchie Blackmore (guitar). This line-up was active from 1969 to 1973, and was revived from 1984 to 1989, and again in 1993, before the rift between Blackmore and other members became unbridgeable. The current line-up (including guitarist Steve Morse) has been much more stable, although Lord's retirement in 2002 has left Paice as the only original member never to have left the band.
History
Pre-Deep Purple years (1967–68)
In 1967, former Searchers drummer Chris Curtis contacted London businessman Tony Edwards, in the hope that he would manage a new group he was putting together, to be called Roundabout: so-called because the members would get on and off the band, like a musical roundabout. Impressed with the plan, Edwards agreed to finance the venture with two business partners: John Coletta and Ron Hire, all of Hire-Edwards-Coletta (HEC) Enterprises.The first recruit was the classically-trained Hammond organ player Jon Lord, who had most notably played with The Artwoods (led by Art Wood, brother of future Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, and featuring Keef Hartley). He was followed by session guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, who was persuaded to return from Hamburg to audition for the new group. Curtis soon dropped out, but HEC Enterprises, as well as Lord and Blackmore, were keen to carry on.
For the bass guitar, Lord suggested his old friend Nick Simper, with whom he had played in a band called The Flower Pot Men and their Garden (formerly known as The Ivy League) back in 1967. Simper's claims to fame (apart from Deep Purple) were that he had been in Johnny Kidd and The Pirates and the car crash that killed Kidd. He was also in Screaming Lord Sutch's The Savages, in which he played with Blackmore.
Top English drummer Bobby Woodman was the initial choice for the drums, but during the auditions for a singer, Rod Evans of the Maze came in with his drummer, Ian Paice. Blackmore had been impressed by Paice's drumming when he'd met him in 1967, and quickly ensured an audition for Paice as well. Both Paice and Evans were added, and the lineup was complete.
After a brief tour of Denmark in the spring of 1968, 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.
Breakthrough (1968–70)
In October 1968, the group had success with a cover of Joe South's "Hush", which reached number 4 on the US Billboard charts and number 2 on the Canadian RPM charts. The song was taken from their debut album ''Shades of Deep Purple'', which was released in July 1968, and they were booked to support Cream on their ''Goodbye'' tour.The band's second album, ''The Book of Taliesyn'' (including a cover of Neil Diamond's "Kentucky Woman"), was released in the United States to coincide with the tour, reaching number 38 on the Billboard charts and number 21 on the RPM charts, although it would not be released in their home country until the following year. Early 1969 saw the release of their third album, ''Deep Purple'', which contained strings and woodwind on one track ("April"). Several influences were in evidence, notably Vanilla Fudge (Blackmore has even claimed the group wanted to be a "Vanilla Fudge clone") and Lord's classical antecedents, such as Bach and Rimsky-Korsakov. Not satisfied with the possibilities for singles off this album, the band also recorded a single called "Emmaretta", named for Emmaretta Marks, then a cast member of the musical ''Hair'', whom Evans was trying to seduce. This would be the last recording by the original lineup.
After the third album's release and extensive touring in the United States, their American record company, Tetragrammaton, went out of business, leaving the band with no money and an uncertain future. (Tetragrammaton's assets were assumed by Warner Bros. Records, who would release Deep Purple's records in the US throughout the 1970s.) During the 1969 American tour, Blackmore and Lord met with Paice to discuss their desire to take the band in a heavier direction. Feeling that Evans and Simper would not fit well with a heavy rock style, both were fired that summer.
In search of a replacement vocalist, Blackmore set his sights on 19-year-old singer Terry Reid, who declined a similar opportunity to front the newly forming Led Zeppelin only a year earlier. Though he found the offer "flattering", Reid was still bound by the 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 hunted down singer Ian Gillan from Episode Six, a band that had released several singles in the UK without achieving their big break for commercial success. Six's drummer Mick Underwood – an old comrade of Blackmore's from his Savages days – introduced the band to Gillan and bassist Roger Glover. This effectively killed Episode Six and gave Underwood a guilt complex that lasted nearly a decade, until Gillan recruited him for his new post-Purple band in the late 1970s. This created the quintessential Deep Purple Mark II line-up, whose first, inauspicious release was a Greenaway-Cook tune titled "Hallelujah", which flopped.
The band gained some much-needed publicity 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 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Arnold. Together with ''Five Bridges'' by The Nice, it was one of the first collaborations between a rock band and an orchestra. However, Blackmore and Gillan especially were less than happy at the group being tagged as "a group who played with orchestras" at the time; what they had in mind was to develop the band into a much tighter, hard-rocking style. Despite this, Lord wrote the ''Gemini Suite'', another orchestra/group collaboration in the same vein, for the band in late 1970.
Popularity and break-up (1970–76)
Shortly after the orchestral release, the band began a hectic touring and recording schedule that was to see little respite for the next three years. Their first studio album of this period, released in mid-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 band also issued the UK Top Ten single "Black Night". The interplay between Blackmore's guitar and Lord's distorted organ, coupled with Gillan's howling vocals and the rhythm section of Glover and Paice, now started to take on a unique identity that further separated the band from its earlier albums.A second album, the creatively progressive ''Fireball'', was issued in the summer of 1971. 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).
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 gig 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?" Three months later, in December 1971, the band traveled to Switzerland to record ''Machine Head''. The album was due to be recorded at a casino in Montreux, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, but a fire during a Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention gig, 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." The album was later recorded in a corridor at the nearby empty Grand Hotel.
Continuing from where both previous albums left off, ''Machine Head'' has since become the band's most famous album. It reached #1 in the UK, #7 in the U.S., and included tracks that became live classics, such as "Highway Star", "Space Truckin'", "Lazy" and "Smoke on the Water", for which Deep Purple is most famous. Deep Purple 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 the album was their seventh LP. Meanwhile, the band undertook four North America tours in 1972, and a Japan tour that led to a double-vinyl live release, ''Made in Japan''. Originally intended as a Japan-only record, its worldwide release saw the double LP become an instant hit. It remains one of rock music's most popular and highest selling live-concert recordings (although at the time it was perhaps seen as less important, as only Glover and Paice turned up to mix it).
The classic Deep Purple Mark II line-up continued to work, and released the album ''Who Do We Think We Are'' (1973), featuring the hit single "Woman from Tokyo", but internal tensions and exhaustion were more noticeable than ever. In many ways, the band had become victims of their own success. However, still following the successes of ''Machine Head'' and ''Made in Japan'', the addition of ''Who Do We Think We Are'' made them the top-selling artists of 1973 in the USA. Ian Gillan admitted in a 1984 interview that the band was pushed by management to complete the album on time and go on tour, although they badly needed a break. The bad feelings culminated in Gillan, followed by Glover, quitting the band after their second tour of Japan in the summer of 1973 over tensions with Blackmore.
The band first hired Midlands bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes, formerly of Trapeze. After acquiring Hughes, they debated continuing as a four-piece band, with Hughes as both bassist and lead vocalist. According to Hughes, he was persuaded to join under the guise that the band would be bringing in Paul Rodgers of Free as a co-lead vocalist, but by that time Rodgers had just started Bad Company. Instead, auditions were held for lead vocal replacements. Two primary candidates surfaced: Angus Cameron McKinlay, a Scotsman; and David Coverdale, an unknown singer from Saltburn in Northeast England. They settled on Coverdale, primarily because Blackmore liked his masculine, blues-tinged voice, and Angus was eliminated. This new line-up continued into 1974. The band played at the famous California Jam festival at Ontario Motor Speedway located in California on 6 April 1974. Attracting over 250,000 fans, the festival also included 1970s rock giants Black Sabbath, Eagles, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Earth, Wind & Fire, Seals and Crofts, Rare Earth and Black Oak Arkansas. Portions of the show were telecast on ABC Television in the US, exposing the band to a wider audience. This lineup's first album, titled ''Burn'', was a highly successful release (only the second album, after ''Machine Head'', to crack the USA Top 10), and was followed by another world tour. Hughes and Coverdale added 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''. Besides the title track, the album had a number of songs that received much radio play, such as "Lady Double Dealer", "The Gypsy" and "Soldier Of Fortune." However, Blackmore voiced unhappiness with the album and the direction Deep Purple had taken, stating simply, "I don't like funky soul music." As a result, he left the band on 21 June 1975 to form his own band with Ronnie James Dio of Elf, called Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, later shortened to Rainbow after one album. With Blackmore's departure, Deep Purple was left to fill one of the biggest band member vacancies in rock music. In spite of this, the rest of the band refused to stop, and to the surprise of many long-time fans, actually announced a replacement for Blackmore: American Tommy Bolin. There are at least two versions about the recruitment of Bolin: 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 was his". But in an interview originally published by Melody Maker in June 1975, Bolin himself claimed that he came to the audition following a recommendation from Blackmore. Bolin had been a member of many now-forgotten late-1960s bands – Denny & The Triumphs, American Standard, and Zephyr, which released three albums from 1969–72. Before Deep Purple, Bolin's best-known recordings were made as a session musician on Billy Cobham's 1973 jazz fusion album ''Spectrum'', and as Joe Walsh's replacement on two James Gang albums: ''Bang'' (1973) and ''Miami'' (1974). He had also jammed with such luminaries as Dr. John, Albert King, 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, ''Come Taste the Band'', was released in October 1975. Despite mixed reviews, 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 material. Later, Bolin's personal problems with drugs began to manifest themselves, and after cancelled shows and below-par concert performances, the band was in danger.
Band split, side projects (1976–84)
The end came on tour in Britain in March 1976 at the Liverpool Empire Theatre. Coverdale reportedly walked off in tears and handed in his resignation, to which he was allegedly told there was no band left to quit. The decision to disband Deep Purple had been made some time before the last show by Lord and Paice (the last remaining original members), who hadn't told anyone else. The break-up was finally made public in July 1976.Later, Bolin had just finished recording his second solo album, ''Private Eyes'', when, on 4 December 1976, tragedy struck. In Miami, during a tour supporting Jeff Beck, Bolin was found unconscious by his girlfriend. 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 past and present members of Deep Purple went on to have considerable success in a number of other bands, including Rainbow, Whitesnake, Black Sabbath and Gillan. There were, however, 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 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.
Reunions and break-ups (1984–94)
In April 1984, eight years after the demise of Deep Purple, a full-scale (and legal) reunion took place with the "classic" early 1970s line-up of Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord and Paice. The reformed band signed a worldwide deal with PolyGram, with Mercury Records releasing their albums in the United States, and Polydor Records in other countries. The album ''Perfect Strangers'' was recorded in Vermont and released in October 1984. A solid release, it sold extremely well (reaching #5 in the UK and #17 on the Billboard 200 in the US) and included the singles and concert staples "Knockin' At Your Back Door" and "Perfect Strangers". 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 U.S., the 1985 tour out-grossed every other artist except Bruce Springsteen. The UK homecoming proved limited, as they elected to play just a single festival show at Knebworth (with main support from the Scorpions; also on the bill were UFO, Bernie Marsden's Alaska, Mama's Boys, Blackfoot, Mountain and Meat Loaf). The weather was bad (torrential rain and 6" of mud), but 80,000 fans turned up anyway. The gig was called the "Return Of The Knebworth Fayre".The line-up then released ''The House of Blue Light'' in 1987, which was followed by a world tour (interrupted after Blackmore broke a finger on stage while trying to catch his guitar after throwing it in the air) and another live album ''Nobody's Perfect'' (1988) which was culled from several shows on this tour, but still largely based on the by-now familiar ''Made in Japan'' set-list. In the UK a new version of "Hush" (with Gillan on lead vocals) was released to mark 20 years of the band. In 1989, Gillan was fired as 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, but this fell through due to complications with Jamison's 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), Norman "Kal" Swann (Tytan, Lion, Bad Moon Rising) and Terry Brock (Strangeways), former Rainbow vocalist Joe Lynn Turner was recruited into the band. This line-up recorded just one album, ''Slaves & Masters'' (1990) and toured in support, though some fans derided it as little more than a so-called "Deep Rainbow" album.
With the tour complete, Turner was forced out, as Lord, Paice and Glover (and the record company) wanted Gillan back in the fold for the 25th anniversary. Blackmore grudgingly relented, after requesting and eventually receiving 250,000 dollars in his bank account and the classic line-up recorded ''The Battle Rages On''. But Gillan reworked much of the existing material for the album. As a result, Blackmore became infuriated at the non-melodic elements during an otherwise stunningly successful European tour. Blackmore walked out in November 1993, never to return. Joe Satriani 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 record contract commitments prevented this. The band unanimously chose Dixie Dregs/Kansas guitarist Steve Morse to become Blackmore's permanent successor.
Revival with Steve Morse (1994–present)
Morse's arrival revitalised the band creatively, and in 1996 a new album titled ''Purpendicular'' was released, showing a wide variety of musical styles. The 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 success throughout 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 the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paul Mann. The concert also featured songs from each member's solo careers, as well as a short Deep Purple set, and the occasion was commemorated on the 2000 album ''Live at the Royal Albert Hall''. In early 2001, two similar concerts were performed in Tokyo and released as part of the box set ''The Soundboard Series''.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 (Rainbow, Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, Whitesnake), who had helped Deep Purple out when Lord's knee was injured in 2001, joined the band. In 2003, Deep Purple released their first studio album in five years (''Bananas'') and began touring in support of the album immediately. In July 2005, the band played at the Live 8 concert in Park Place (Barrie, Ontario) and, in October of the same year, released their next album ''Rapture of the Deep''. It was followed by the ''Rapture of the Deep tour''.
In February 2007, Gillan asked fans not to buy a live album ''Come Hell or High Water'' being released by Sony BMG. This was a recording of their 1993 appearance at the NEC in Birmingham. Recordings of this show have previously been released without resistance from Gillan or any other members of the band, but he said: "It was one of the lowest points of my life – all of our lives, actually".
Gillan hinted that the group may record their nineteenth studio album in February 2010, to be followed by a supporting tour. Steve Morse later revealed in an interview that the band would begin working on a new album in March.
Band members
Current members
Former members
Timeline
World tours
Deep Purple are considered to be one of the hardest touring bands in the world. From 1968 until today (with the exception of their 1976–1984 split) they continue to tour around the world. 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 was voted #6 concert tour of the year (in all music genres) by Planet Rock listeners. The Rolling Stones' A Bigger Bang Tour was voted #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 in Moscow at the Kremlin at the personal request of Dmitry Medvedev who at the time was considered a shoo-in for the seat of the Presidency of Russia. The band was part of the entertainment for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec, Czech Republic.
Discography
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
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