Origin: England  
Genres: 70's Metal, Hard Rock
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Deep Purple

One of the first, and most popular, hard rock/metal groups of the early seventies, Deep Purple will forever be remembered for their massive hit "Smoke On The Water" (featuring one of the most well-known riffs ever recorded) as well as oft-covered classics such as "Highway Star", "Burn", and countless others. Their most well-known albums would probably be Machine Head and In Rock, but the 1984 comeback album Perfect Stranger deserves mention, as not only is it one of their better efforts but one of the best examples of how a band actually can come back together after years apart and release something relevant without just cashing in on past glories. Since that reunion the band has continued to tour and occasionally record, maintaining a fan base an astonishing 40 years after their inception.

Recent album: =1, released on July 19, 2024.

Current Members

Ian Gillan

vocals (ex-Black Sabbath, ex-Gillan)

Simon McBride

guitars (ex-Sweet Savage)

Roger Glover

bass (ex-Rainbow)

Don Airey

keyboards (ex-Fastway, ex-Michael Schenker Group, guest for Metalium, ex-Ozzy Osbourne, Persian Risk, ex-Rainbow, ex-Sinner, ex-Whitesnake)

Ian Paice

drums (ex-Whitesnake)

Former Members/Guests

Rod Evans

vocals (ex-Captain Beyond)

David Coverdale

vocals (ex-Whitesnake)

Joe Lynn Turner

vocals (ex-Yngwie Malmsteen, ex-Rainbow)

Ritchie Blackmore

guitars (ex-Rainbow)

Steve Morse

guitars

Tommy Bolin

guitars

Nic Simper

bass (ex-Warhorse)

Glenn Hughes

bass (ex-Black Sabbath)

Jon Lord

keyboards (ex-Whitesnake) RIP: July 16, 2012, cancer, age 71


Discography



Shades Of Deep Purple  
1968 Parlophone
  1. And The Address
  2. One More Rainy Day
  3. Prelude
  4. Hush
  5. Help
  6. Mandrake Root
  7. I'm So Glad
  8. Happiness
  9. Love Help Me
  10. Hey Joe
  • Rod Evans
  • Ritchie Blackmore
  • Nic Simper
  • Jon Lord
  • Ian Paice


Book Of Taliesyn  
1968 Parlophone
  1. Listen, Learn, Read On
  2. Wring That Neck
  3. Anthem
  4. Shield
  5. River Deep Mountain High
  6. We Can Work It Out
  7. Exposition
  8. Kentucky Woman
  • Rod Evans
  • Ritchie Blackmore
  • Nic Simper
  • Jon Lord
  • Ian Paice


Deep Purple  
1969 Parlophone
  1. Chasing Shadows
  2. Blind
  3. Lalena
  4. A- Fault Line. B- The Painter
  5. Why Didn't Rosemary?
  6. Bird Has Flown
  7. April
  • Rod Evans
  • Ritchie Blackmore
  • Nic Simper
  • Jon Lord
  • Ian Paice


Concerto For Group And Orchestra  LIVE
1969 Harvest


In Rock  
1970 Harvest
  1. Child In Time
  2. Blood Sucker
  3. Flight Of The Rat
  4. Into The Fire
  5. Speed King
  6. Living Wreck
  7. Hard Loving Man
  • Ian Gillan
  • Ritchie Blackmore
  • Roger Glover
  • Jon Lord
  • Ian Paice
1970 Readers' Album #3



Fireball  
1971 Harvest
  1. Demon's Eye
  2. Anyone's Daughter
  3. No No No
  4. Fools
  5. Fireball
  6. No One Came
  7. The Mule
  • Ian Gillan
  • Ritchie Blackmore
  • Roger Glover
  • Jon Lord
  • Ian Paice


Machine Head  
1972 Purple
  1. Smoke On The Water
  2. Never Before
  3. Maybe I'm A Leo
  4. Lazy
  5. Space Truckin
  6. Highway Star
  7. Pictures Of Home
  • Ian Gillan
  • Ritchie Blackmore
  • Roger Glover
  • Jon Lord
  • Ian Paice
1972 Readers' Album #2



Made In Japan  LIVE
1972 Purple


Who Do We Think We Are  
1973 Purple
  1. Supertrooper
  2. Woman From Tokyo
  3. Smooth Dancer
  4. Our Lady
  5. Place In Time
  6. Rat Bat Blue
  7. Mary Long
  • Ian Gillan
  • Ritchie Blackmore
  • Roger Glover
  • Jon Lord
  • Ian Paice


Burn  
1974 Purple
  1. Mistreated
  2. Might Just Take Your Life
  3. Sail Away
  4. A Zoo
  5. You Fool No One
  6. What's Going On Here
  7. Lay Down Stay Down
  • David Coverdale
  • Ritchie Blackmore
  • Glenn Hughes
  • Jon Lord
  • Ian Paice
1974 Readers' Album #1



Stormbringer  
1974 Purple
  1. Stormbringer
  2. Love Don't Mean A Thing
  3. Holy Man
  4. Hold On
  5. Lady Double Dealer
  6. You Can't Do It Right
  7. High Ball Shooter
  8. The Gypsy
  9. Soldier Of Fortune
  • David Coverdale
  • Ritchie Blackmore
  • Glenn Hughes
  • Jon Lord
  • Ian Paice


Come Taste The Band  
1975 Purple
  1. Keep On Moving
  2. This Time Around
  3. Owed To The 'G'
  4. Drifter
  5. Love Child
  6. I Need Love
  7. Getting Tighter
  8. Coming Home
  9. Lady Luck
  • David Coverdale
  • Tommy Bolin
  • Glenn Hughes
  • Jon Lord
  • Ian Paice


Made In Europe  LIVE
1976 Purple


Last Concert In Japan  LIVE
1978 Purple


In Concert  LIVE
1980 Harvest


Live In London  LIVE
1982 Harvest


Perfect Strangers  
1984 Polydor
  1. Knocking At Your Back Door
  2. Perfect Strangers
  3. A Gypsy's Kiss
  4. Under The Gun
  5. Nobody's Home
  6. Wasted Sunsets
  7. Hungry Days
  8. Mean Streak
  9. Not Responsible
  • Ian Gillan
  • Ritchie Blackmore
  • Roger Glover
  • Jon Lord
  • Ian Paice


The House Of Blue Light  
1987 Polydor
  1. Bad Attitude
  2. Unwritten Law
  3. Call Of The Wild
  4. Mad Dog
  5. Hard Lovin' Woman
  6. Black And White
  7. Strangeways
  8. Spanish Archer
  9. Mitzi Dupree
  10. Dead Or Alive
  • Ian Gillan
  • Ritchie Blackmore
  • Roger Glover
  • Jon Lord
  • Ian Paice


Nobody's Perfect  LIVE
1988 Polydor


Slaves And Masters  
1990 RCA
  1. King Of Dreams
  2. The Cut Runs Deep
  3. Fire In The Basement
  4. Truth Hurts
  5. Breakfast In Bed
  6. Love Conquers All
  7. Fortune Teller
  8. Too Much Is Not Enough
  9. Wicked Ways
  • Joe Lynn Turner
  • Ritchie Blackmore
  • Roger Glover
  • Jon Lord
  • Ian Paice


The Battle Rages On ...  
1993 RCA
  1. The Battle Rages On
  2. Lick It Up
  3. Anya
  4. Talk About Love
  5. Time To Kill
  6. Ramshackle Man
  7. A Twist In The Tale
  8. Nasty Piece Of Work
  9. Solitaire
  10. One Man's Meat
  • Ian Gillan
  • Ritchie Blackmore
  • Roger Glover
  • Jon Lord
  • Ian Paice


Come Hell Or High Water  LIVE
1994 RCA


Purpendicular  
1996 RCA
  1. Vavoom
  2. Ted The Mechanic
  3. Loosen My Strings
  4. Soon Forgotten
  5. Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
  6. Cascades
  7. I'm Not Your Lover
  8. The Aviator
  9. Rosa's Cantina
  10. A Castle Full Of Rascals
  11. A Touch Away
  12. Hey Cisco
  13. Somebody Stole My Guitar
  14. The Purpendicular Waltz
  • Ian Gillan
  • Steve Morse
  • Roger Glover
  • Jon Lord
  • Ian Paice


Live At The Olympia '96  LIVE
1997 EMI


Abandon  
1998 CMC
  1. Any Fule Kno That
  2. Almost Human
  3. Don't Make Me Happy
  4. Seventh Heaven
  5. Watching The Sky
  6. Fingers To The Bone
  7. Jack Ruby
  8. She Was
  9. Whatsername
  10. '69
  11. Evil Louie
  12. Bludsucker
  • Ian Gillan
  • Steve Morse
  • Roger Glover
  • Jon Lord
  • Ian Paice


Bananas  
2003 EMI
  1. House Of Pain
  2. Sun Goes Down
  3. Haunted
  4. Razzle Dazzle
  5. Silver Tongue
  6. Walk On
  7. Pictures of Innocence
  8. I've Got Your Number
  9. Never A Word
  10. Bananas
  11. Doing It Tonight
  12. Contact Lost
  • Ian Gillan
  • Steve Morse
  • Roger Glover
  • Don Airey
  • Ian Paice
2003 Readers' Album #71



Rapture Of The Deep  
2005 Edel
  1. Back To Back
  2. Before Time Began
  3. Clearly Quite Absurd
  4. Don't Let Go
  5. Girls Like That
  6. Rapture
  7. MTV
  8. Money Talks
  9. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
  10. Junkyard Blues
  11. Things I Never Said
  12. Wrong Man
  • Ian Gillan
  • Steve Morse
  • Roger Glover
  • Don Airey
  • Ian Paice


Live At Montreaux 1996  LIVE
2006


They All Came Down To Montreaux  LIVE
2007


Live Encounters  LIVE
2009


Phoenix Rising  VIDEO
2011


Live At Montreux 2011  LIVE
2011


Now What?!  
2013 earMUSIC
  1. A Simple Song
  2. Weirdistan
  3. Out of Hand
  4. Hell to Pay
  5. Body Line
  6. Above and Beyond
  7. Blood from a Stone
  8. Uncommon Man
  9. Après Vous
  10. All the Time in the World
  11. Vincent Price
  12. It'll Be Me
  • Ian Gillan
  • Steve Morse
  • Roger Glover
  • Don Airey
  • Ian Paice
2013 Readers' Album #21



Infinite  
2017 earMUSIC
  1. Time For Bedlam
  2. Hip Boots
  3. All I've Got Is You
  4. One Night In Vegas
  5. Get Me Outta Here
  6. The Surprising
  7. Johnny's Band
  8. On Top Of The World
  9. Birds Of Prey
  10. Roadhouse Blues
  • Ian Gillan
  • Steve Morse
  • Roger Glover
  • Don Airey
  • Ian Paice
2017 Readers' Album #13



Throw My Bones  EP
2020 earMUSIC
  1. Throw My Bones
  2. The Power Of The Moon
  3. Man Alive
  • Ian Gillan
  • Steve Morse
  • Roger Glover
  • Don Airey
  • Ian Paice


Whoosh!  
2020 earMUSIC
  1. Throw My Bones
  2. Drop the Weapon
  3. We're All the Same in the Dark
  4. Nothing at All
  5. No Need to Shout
  6. Step by Step
  7. What the What
  8. The Long Way Round
  9. The Power of the Moon
  10. Remission Possible
  11. Man Alive
  12. And the Address
  13. Dancing in My Sleep
  • Ian Gillan
  • Steve Morse
  • Roger Glover
  • Don Airey
  • Ian Paice


Turning To Crime  COVERS
2021 earMUSIC
  1. Volume 1
  2. 7 And 7 Is (LOVE)
  3. Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu (Huey "Piano" Smith)
  4. Oh Well (FLEETWOOD MAC)
  5. Jenny Take A Ride! (MITCH RYDER & THE DETROIT WHEELS)
  6. Watching The River Flow (Bob Dylan)
  7. Let The Good Times Roll (Ray Charles & Quincy Jones)
  8. Dixie Chicken (LITTLE FEAT)
  9. Shapes Of Things (THE YARDBIRDS)
  10. The Battle Of New Orleans (Lonnie Donegan/Johnny Horton)
  11. Lucifer (BOB SEGER SYSTEM)
  12. White Room (CREAM)
  13. Caught In The Act (Medley)
  • Ian Gillan
  • Steve Morse
  • Roger Glover
  • Don Airey
  • Ian Paice


=1  
2024 earMUSIC
  1. Show Me
  2. A Bit on the Side
  3. Sharp Shooter
  4. Portable Door
  5. Old Fangled Thing
  6. If I Were You
  7. Pictures of You
  8. I'm Saying Nothin'
  9. Lazy Sod
  10. Now You're Talkin'
  11. No Money to Burn
  12. I'll Catch You
  13. Bleeding Obvious



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