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The group soon changed their name to Deep Purple, after the song of the same name by Nino Tempo & April Stevens. [3] Deep Purple quickly recorded their first album Shades of Deep Purple, which was issued in July 1968. [4]
English hard rock band Deep Purple have released 23 studio albums, 43 live albums, 26 compilation albums and 58 singles.. Formed in early 1968 by Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Rod Evans, Ritchie Blackmore, and Nick Simper, Deep Purple released their debut album, Shades of Deep Purple, in July of that year.
In 1980, a touring version of the band surfaced with Rod Evans, who had left Captain Beyond at the end of 1973, 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 ...
The Deep Purple Singles A's & B's is a compilation album of singles released by the English hard rock band Deep Purple.It was released on vinyl in October 1978. An updated version of the album was issued on CD in 1993 and contains the complete collection of Deep Purple's UK singles, recorded and released from 1968 to 1976 by the Mk I, II, III and IV line-ups of Deep Purple.
Ian Anderson Paice (born 29 June 1948) is an English musician who is the drummer and last remaining original member of the rock band Deep Purple. [1] He remains the only member of Deep Purple who has served in every line-up since the band's inception in 1968, as well as having played on every album and at every live appearance.
It was the first Deep Purple studio album in nine years. Perfect Strangers is also the first album with the Mk II line-up in eleven years, the last being Who Do We Think We Are (1973). Its nine-year gap from Come Taste the Band (1975) marks the longest between two studio albums from the band to date.
Pages in category "Deep Purple members" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
A registered company, Deep Purple Overseas Ltd., had been registered with Companies House in the UK 9 years prior in 1971 to safeguard the "Deep Purple" name from unwarranted exploitation. Members of the management team of then-disbanded genuine Deep Purple John Coletta and Tony Edwards successfully sued and were awarded $672,000 in damages. As ...