Since the release of their debut, Shades of Deep Purple, the band have weathered eight different lineups -- which they have dubbed "Marks" -- and a couple of reunions of the Mark II quintet responsible for their most celebrated work. Drummer Ian Paice has been the lone constant member. Along the way, they shepherded the career of David Coverdale, who would later find platinum success fronting Whitesnake and discovered a brilliant, but troubled, guitarist in Tommy Bolin.
Deep Purple are a British rock band formed in Hertford in 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 the early to mid-Seventies". The band has gone through many line-up changes and an eight-year hiatus — This line-up was active from to , and was revived from to , and again from to The band achieved more modest success in the intervening periods between and with the line-up including Rod Evans vocals and Nick Simper bass, backing vocals , between and Tommy Bolin replacing Blackmore in with the line-up including David Coverdale vocals and Glenn Hughes bass, vocals , and between and with the line-up including Joe Lynn Turner vocals.
The band's line-up currently featuring Ian Gillan, and guitarist Steve Morse from has been much more stable in recent years, although organist Jon Lord's retirement from the band in being succeeded by Don Airey left Ian Paice as the only original Deep Purple member still in the band.
Deep Purple were ranked number 22 on VH1 's Greatest Artists of Hard Rock programme [15 ] and a British radio station Planet Rock poll ranked them 5th among the "most influential bands ever". In , 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. Curtis' vision was a "supergroup" where the band members would get on and off, like a musical roundabout.
Blackmore 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. Curtis' erratic behaviour soon forced him out of his own project, but Lord and Blackmore were keen to continue, and carried on recruiting additional members, keeping Tony Edwards as their manager.
Simper had previously been in Johnny Kidd and The Pirates and survived the car crash that killed Kidd. Simper had known Blackmore since the early s when his first band, the Renegades, debuted around the same time as one of Blackmore's early bands, the Dominators. Blackmore had seen Paice on tour with the Maze in Germany in , and had been impressed by the year old's drumming.
While Woodman was out for cigarettes, Blackmore quickly arranged an audition for Paice. Both Paice and Evans won their respective jobs, and the line-up was complete.
Second to Deep Purple was "Concrete God", which the band thought was too harsh to take on. The band's second album, The Book of Taliesyn including a cover of Neil Diamond 's " Kentucky Woman " , was released in North America 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 saw Deep Purple record their third album, simply titled Deep Purple. The album contained strings and woodwind on one track "April" , showcasing Lord's classical antecedents such as Bach and Rimsky-Korsakov , and several other influences were in evidence, notably Vanilla Fudge.
Lord and Blackmore had even claimed the group wanted to be a "Vanilla Fudge clone". This would be the last recording by the original line-up. Deep Purple's troubled North American record label, Tetragrammaton, delayed production of the Deep Purple album until after the band's American tour ended. This, as well as lackluster promotion by the nearly-broke label, caused the album to sell poorly, finishing well out of the Billboard Top Soon after the third album's eventual release, 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 s. During the American tour, Lord and Blackmore 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 replaced that summer.
If they hadn't left, the band would have totally disintegrated. In search of a replacement vocalist, Blackmore set his own sights on year-old singer Terry Reid. 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. 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.
Despite carrying a wide spectrum of interesting and intricate music, their third album the eponymous 'Deep Purple' , was not the way forward, and the line up that recorded it was history by the time of release in July. In May Paice, Lord and Blackmore decided to take the plunge and concentrate on the increasingly dominant hard rock and classical elements in their music, leaving behind the pop and commercial side, and aiming at the UK and European rock circuit.
Some of the earlier album material lent itself well to the superb improvised instrumental skills of the musicians, but new, dynamic songs were also needed. Simper and Evans, now seen as being unsuited to the band, were to be replaced. The split was not as straightforward as it could have been, both Simper and Evans were kept uninformed as long as possible. Even after their replacements Ian Gillan and Roger Glover from Episode Six had already been enlisted and begun recording and rehearsing with the band, Simper and Evans remained in the dark, and continued to play live with the band for some time.
Neither was pleased at eventually hearing of their impending fate through the musicians' grapevine. One disc each for Mk1 and Mk2. Deep Purple Mk 1 at www. With their self-titled third LP, Deep Purple 's ambitions grew; their songs reflected a new complexity and density as Lord 's classically influenced keyboards assumed a much greater focus. Soon after the album's release, their American label Tetragrammaton folded, and with the dismissal of Evans and Simper , the band started fresh, recruiting singer Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover from the ranks of the pop group Episode Six.
The revamped Deep Purple 's first album, 's Concerto for Group and Orchestra , further sought to fuse rock and classical music. When the project, which was recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , was poorly received, Blackmore took creative control of the band, steering it toward a heavier, guitar-dominated approach that took full advantage of Gillan 's powerful vocals.
The gambit worked: 's Deep Purple in Rock heralded the beginning of the group's most creatively and commercially successful period. At home, the album sold over a million copies, with the subsequent non-LP single "Black Night" falling just shy of topping the U.
Released in , Fireball was also a smash, scoring a hit with "Strange Kind of Woman. Plans to record the follow-up at the Casino in Montreux, Switzerland, were derailed after the venue burned down during a live appearance by Frank Zappa , but the experience inspired Deep Purple 's most enduring hit, the AOR staple "Smoke on the Water.
All the changes clearly took their toll, however, and following a farewell tour, the group dissolved in Coverdale , meanwhile, went on to form Whitesnake , and Bolin died of a drug overdose later in the year. The House of Blue Light followed three years later, but as past tensions resurfaced, Gillan again exited in mid In , Steve Morse took over the guitar slot fresh from a stint in Kansas , and the revitalized group returned to the studio for 's Purpendicular , which proved a success among the Purple faithful.
Abandon followed in , along with a orchestral performance released the following year as Live at the Royal Albert Hall.
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