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and on record they are a sort of Deep Purple sound-alike group. This remained true on their The Battle Rages On..., their fourth new studio album after getting back together, which marked the return of straying lead singer Ian Gillan, who had ducked out in 1989. Gillan is so buried in...
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 gen...
It's down to David Coverdale. The singer is the last remaining member of the original Whitesnake, the band he started in 1978 after leaving Deep Purple. "The truth is," he toldMetal Edgein 2023, "I was able to find my voice with Whitesnake in ways that I never could with Deep Purple...
It's down to David Coverdale. The singer is the last remaining member of the original Whitesnake, the band he started in 1978 after leaving Deep Purple. "The truth is," he toldMetal Edgein 2023, "I was able to find my voice with Whitesnake in ways that I never could with Deep Purple...
‘Hallelujah’ was the first record not to feature singer Rod Evans; he was replaced by Ian Gillan, and bass player Nick Simper also left, to be replaced by Roger Glover; both new recruits came from Episode Six, a band with a not dissimilar musical vibe to Deep Purple. The new line up...
as nuanced and sensitive as it was devastating. So impassioned was the singer's delivery, in fact, that the song would remain his personal, in-concert trademark with Whitesnake, long after his tenure with Deep Purple came to a close. Like the vast majority of Burn this song's greatness qu...
who had also starred in the lead role in the original version of Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Tim Rice's "Jesus Christ Superstar". This line-up, which is widely known as DEEP PURPLE Mark II, gave the band international renown - even though their first album, Lord's pet project "Concerto for...
LOS ANGELES, USA – 1st JUNE: English rock group Deep Purple posed at Columbia rehearsal studios in Los Angeles, USA in June 1975. Left to right: Drummer Ian Paice, bassist Glenn Hughes, singer David Coverdale, guitarist Tommy Bolin (1951-1976) and keyboard player Jon Lord (1941-2012). ...
As for Blackmore, who stays in a separate dressing room, he is forming a blues power-trio as an alternative to Deep Purple. While maintaining that both bands will hold him as their lead guitarist, Ritchie is already speaking about his involvement with Deep Purple in the past tense. “I w...