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Deep Purple Are An English Rock Band Formed In London In 1968. They Are Considered To Be Among The Pioneers Of Heavy Metal And Modern Hard Rock But Their Musical Approach Has Changed Over The Years.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 The Early To Mid-Seventies. They Were Listed In The 1975 Guinness Book Of World Records As "the Globe's Loudest Band" For A 1972 Concert At London's Rainbow Theatre And Have Sold Over 100 Million Albums Worldwide. Deep Purple Have Had Several Line-Up Changes And Were Broken Up 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 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 A Drug Overdose Five Months Later. In 1984 Deep Purple Reformed With The Mark II Line-Up Which Remained In Place Until Joe Lynn Turner Replaced Gillan In 1989. Gillan Rejoined In 1992 With Blackmore Leaving For The Second And Final Time The Following Year. He Was Replaced Temporarily By Joe Satriani And Then Permanently By Steve Morse. In 2002 Don Airey Replaced Jon Lord Which Saw Deep Purple Settle Into Its Longest Running Line-Up Unchanged For The Next Twenty Years Until Morse Announced His Departure From The Band In 2022. His Place Was Taken By Simon McBride. 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 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.
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Deep Purple Are An English Rock Band Formed In London In 1968. They Are Considered To Be Among The Pioneers Of Heavy Metal And Modern Hard Rock But Their Musical Approach Has Changed Over The Years.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 The Early To Mid-Seventies. They Were Listed In The 1975 Guinness Book Of World Records As "the Globe's Loudest Band" For A 1972 Concert At London's Rainbow Theatre And Have Sold Over 100 Million Albums Worldwide. Deep Purple Have Had Several Line-Up Changes And Were Broken Up 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 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 A Drug Overdose Five Months Later. In 1984 Deep Purple Reformed With The Mark II Line-Up Which Remained In Place Until Joe Lynn Turner Replaced Gillan In 1989. Gillan Rejoined In 1992 With Blackmore Leaving For The Second And Final Time The Following Year. He Was Replaced Temporarily By Joe Satriani And Then Permanently By Steve Morse. In 2002 Don Airey Replaced Jon Lord Which Saw Deep Purple Settle Into Its Longest Running Line-Up Unchanged For The Next Twenty Years Until Morse Announced His Departure From The Band In 2022. His Place Was Taken By Simon McBride. 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 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.
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The Usual Perception Of Early Deep Purple Is That It Was A Band With A Lot Of Potential In Search Of A Direction. And That Might Be True Of Their Debut LP Put Together In Three Days Of Sessions In May Of 1968 But It's Still A Hell Of An Album. From The Opening Bars Of "And The Address " It's Clear That They'd Gotten Down The Fundamentals Of Heavy Metal From Day One And At Various Points The Electricity And The Beat Just Surge Forth In Ways That Were Startlingly New In The Summer Of 1968. Ritchie Blackmore Never Sounded Less At Ease As A Guitarist Than He Does On This Album And The Sound Mix Doesn't Exactly Favor The Heavier Side Of His Playing But The Rhythm Section Of Nick Simper And Ian Paice Rumble Forward And Jon Lord's Organ Flourishes Weaving Classical Riffs And Unexpected Arabesques Into "I'm So Glad " Which Sounds Rather Majestic Here. "Hush" Was The Number That Most People Knew At The Time It Was A Hit Single In America And It Is A Smooth Crunchy Interpretation Of The Joe South Song. But Nobody Could Have Been Disappointed With The Rest Of This Record — One Can Even Hear The Very Distant Origins Of "Smoke On The Water" In "Mandrake Root " Once One Gets Past The Similarities To Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady" By The Song's Extended Finale They Sound More Like The Nice. Their Version Of "Help" Is One Of The More Interesting Reinterpretations Of A Beatles Song As A Slow Rough-Textured Dirge. "Hey Joe" Is A Bit Overblown And The Group Clearly Had To Work A Bit At Both Songwriting And Their Presentation But One Key Attribute That Runs Through Most Of This Record — Even More So Than The Very Pronounced Heaviness Of The Playing — Is A Spirit Of Fun These Guys Are Obviously Having The Time Of Their Lives Rushing Through Their Limited Repertoire And It's Infectious To The Listener It Gives This Record Much More Of A '60s Feel Than We're Accustomed To Hearing From This Band. The EMI/Spitfire Re-Release From 2000 Is Notably Superior To Any Prior Version Of The CD Made From The Original Master Tape Which Had Been Sent Directly To The Group's American Label Tetragrammaton Leaving EMI With A Vinyl Dub Astonishingly Enough With Textures Far Closer And Crisper Than Have Ever Been Heard Before — There Are Also Five Bonus Tracks Two Very Early Outtakes From Their Earliest Sessions An Alternate Version Of "Help " A BBC Recording Of "Hey Joe " And A Searing Live U.S. Television Performance Of "Hush." Track Listing Side One 1. "And The Address" Ritchie Blackmore Jon Lord – 4 38 2. "Hush" Joe South – 4 24 3. "One More Rainy Day" Rod Evans Lord – 3 40 4. A "Prelude Happiness" Evans Blackmore Nick Simper Lord Ian Paice B "I'm So Glad" Skip James – 7 19 Side Two 5. "Mandrake Root" Evans Blackmore Lord – 6 09 6. "Help" Lennon/McCartney – 6 01 7. "Love Help Me" Evans Blackmore – 3 49 8. "Hey Joe" Billy Roberts – 7 33 Bonus Tracks On The CD Re-Issue 9. "Shadows" Album Out Take Evans Blackmore Simper Lord Paice – 3 38 10. "Love Help Me" Instrumental Version Evans Blackmore – 3 29 11. "Help" Alternate Take Lennon/McCartney - 5 23 12. "Hey Joe" BBC Top Gear Session Roberts – 4 05 13. "Hush" Live US TV South – 3 53 Personnel * Rod Evans - Lead Vocals * Ritchie Blackmore - Guitar * Nick Simper - Bass Backing Vocals * Jon Lord - Organ Keyboards Backing Vocals * Ian Paice - Drums Additional Personnel * Produced By Derek Lawrence * Engineered By Barry Ainsworth * Bonus Tracks Recorded In 1968 & 1969 * Dedicated To Bobby Chris Dave And Ravel * Digitally Remastered And Restored By Peter Mew At Abbey Road Studios London
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Deep Purple - Shades Of Deep Purple 1968 From Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia Shades Of Deep Purple Is The Debut Album By English Hard Rock Band Deep Purple Released In 1968 On Parlophone In The UK And Tetragrammaton In The United States. The Album Reached #24 On Billboard's Pop Album Charts In The U.S. The Song Mandrake Root Would Become An Early Concert Staple For The Band With The Keyboard And Guitar Solos Extended At Times For Up To 15 Minutes. A Similar Instrumental Would Be Paired In Later Years With The Extended Live Versions Of "Space Truckin'." In The Version Of "Space Truckin'" Recorded For The 1972 Live Made In Japan Album A Riff From "Mandrake Root" Can Be Plainly Heard During The Instrumental Parts. The First Two Or So Minutes Of The Fourth Track "Prelude Happiness" Is A Direct Translation Of The First Movement Of Scheherazade. From "allmusic" Reviewby Bruce EderThe Usual Perception Of Early Deep Purple Is That It Was A Band With A Lot Of Potential In Search Of A Direction. And That Might Be True Of Their Debut LP Put Together In Three Days Of Sessions In May Of 1968 But It's Still A Hell Of An Album. From The Opening Bars Of "And The Address " It's Clear That They'd Gotten Down The Fundamentals Of Heavy Metal From Day One And At Various Points The Electricity And The Beat Just Surge Forth In Ways That Were Startlingly New In The Summer Of 1968. Ritchie Blackmore Never Sounded Less At Ease As A Guitarist Than He Does On This Album And The Sound Mix Doesn't Exactly Favor The Heavier Side Of His Playing But The Rhythm Section Of Nick Simper And Ian Paice Rumble Forward And Jon Lord's Organ Flourishes Weaving Classical Riffs And Unexpected Arabesques Into "I'm So Glad " Which Sounds Rather Majestic Here. "Hush" Was The Number That Most People Knew At The Time It Was A Hit Single In America And It Is A Smooth Crunchy Interpretation Of The Joe South Song. But Nobody Could Have Been Disappointed With The Rest Of This Record — One Can Even Hear The Very Distant Origins Of "Smoke On The Water" In "Mandrake Root " Once One Gets Past The Similarities To Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady" By The Song's Extended Finale They Sound More Like The Nice. Their Version Of "Help" Is One Of The More Interesting Reinterpretations Of A Beatles Song As A Slow Rough-Textured Dirge. "Hey Joe" Is A Bit Overblown And The Group Clearly Had To Work A Bit At Both Songwriting And Their Presentation But One Key Attribute That Runs Through Most Of This Record — Even More So Than The Very Pronounced Heaviness Of The Playing — Is A Spirit Of Fun These Guys Are Obviously Having The Time Of Their Lives Rushing Through Their Limited Repertoire And It's Infectious To The Listener It Gives This Record Much More Of A '60s Feel Than We're Accustomed To Hearing From This Band. The EMI/Spitfire Re-Release From 2000 Is Notably Superior To Any Prior Version Of The CD Made From The Original Master Tape Which Had Been Sent Directly To The Group's American Label Tetragrammaton Leaving EMI With A Vinyl Dub Astonishingly Enough With Textures Far Closer And Crisper Than Have Ever Been Heard Before — There Are Also Five Bonus Tracks Two Very Early Outtakes From Their Earliest Sessions An Alternate Version Of "Help " A BBC Recording Of "Hey Joe " And A Searing Live U.S. Television Performance Of "Hush." Track Listing Side One 1. "And The Address" Ritchie Blackmore Jon Lord – 4 38 2. "Hush" Joe South – 4 24 3. "One More Rainy Day" Rod Evans Lord – 3 40 4. A "Prelude Happiness" Evans Blackmore Nick Simper Lord Ian Paice B "I'm So Glad" Skip James – 7 19 Side Two 5. "Mandrake Root" Evans Blackmore Lord – 6 09 6. "Help" Lennon/McCartney – 6 01 7. "Love Help Me" Evans Blackmore – 3 49 8. "Hey Joe" Billy Roberts – 7 33 Bonus Tracks On The CD Re-Issue 9. "Shadows" Album Out Take Evans Blackmore Simper Lord Paice – 3 38 10. "Love Help Me" Instrumental Version Evans Blackmore – 3 29 11. "Help" Alternate Take Lennon/McCartney - 5 23 12. "Hey Joe" BBC Top Gear Session Roberts – 4 05 13. "Hush" Live US TV South – 3 53 Personnel * Rod Evans - Lead Vocals * Ritchie Blackmore - Guitar * Nick Simper - Bass Backing Vocals * Jon Lord - Organ Keyboards Backing Vocals * Ian Paice - Drums Additional Personnel * Produced By Derek Lawrence * Engineered By Barry Ainsworth * Bonus Tracks Recorded In 1968 & 1969 * Dedicated To Bobby Chris Dave And Ravel * Digitally Remastered And Restored By Peter Mew At Abbey Road Studios London