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"Godzilla" is a single by U.S. hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult, the first track on the band's fifth studio album Spectres. The lyrics are a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the popular movie monster of the same name .
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. The band has taken on many new members over the years, and Ian Paice is the last member from the original line-up still with the band.
Deep Purple 25 Years Anniversary World Tour, aka The Battle Rages on Tour, 1993; Deep Purple and Joe Satriani Tour, 1993–1994; Deep Purple Secret Mexican Tour (short warm-up tour with Steve Morse), 1994; Deep Purple Secret USA Tour, 1994–1995; Deep Purple Asian & African Tour, 1995; Purpendicular World Tour, 1996–1997; A Band on World ...
Ian Gillan, discussing the origin of "Smoke on the Water" The last gig at Montreux Casino was a matinée performance by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. At the time, the group included singers Flo & Eddie, multi-instrumentalist Ian Underwood and drummer Aynsley Dunbar. During the show, a member of the audience fired a flare into the building's roof. Although the audience were ...
Jon Lord was Deep Purple's spokesperson and the only band member with whom their managers talked. [22] As is the case with most of the material on their previous two albums, the songs of Deep Purple mix elements of progressive rock, hard rock and psychedelic rock, [23] [24] [25] but this time in a darker and more baroque atmosphere. [14]
Purpendicular is the fifteenth studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple, released on 5 February 1996. [4] It is their first album with guitarist Steve Morse from Dixie Dregs, who replaced Ritchie Blackmore. The album entered the UK Charts on 17 February 1996, where it peaked at No. 58. [5]
The Battle Rages On... is the fourteenth studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple, released on 19 July 1993 in Europe.It is the last album recorded with the band's classic Mk II line-up, which reunited for a second time (the first reunion being for 1984's Perfect Strangers).
"Deep Purple" is a song and the biggest hit written by pianist Peter DeRose, who broadcast between 1923 and 1939 with May Singhi as "The Sweethearts of the Air" on the NBC radio network. The British rock band Deep Purple named themselves after the song. Paul Whiteman recorded and released the original version of the song in 1934 as an ...