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The group soon changed their name to Deep Purple, ... Ian Gillan replaced original lead vocalist Rod Evans in 1969 and stayed until 1973. He re-joined the band in ...
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.
The song was subsequently recorded by English hard rock band Deep Purple, at that time fronted by lead singer Rod Evans, for their 1968 debut album Shades of Deep Purple. Group member Ritchie Blackmore having heard the Billy Joe Royal original while living in Hamburg : (Ritchie Blackmore quote:) "It was a great song [which] would be a good song ...
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 ...
Initially influenced by Elvis Presley, Gillan started and fronted several local bands in the mid-1960s, and eventually joined Episode Six when their original singer left. He first found widespread commercial success after joining Deep Purple in 1969. He resigned from the band in June 1973, having given a lengthy notice period to their managers.
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.
Shades of Deep Purple is the debut album by the English rock band Deep Purple, released in July 1968 on Tetragrammaton in the United States and in September 1968 on Parlophone in the United Kingdom. The band, initially called Roundabout, was the idea of former Searchers drummer Chris Curtis , who recruited Jon Lord and Ritchie Blackmore before ...
David Coverdale (born 22 September 1951) is an English singer and songwriter best known as the founder and lead singer of the hard rock band Whitesnake.He was also the lead singer of Deep Purple from 1973 to 1976, after which he released two solo studio albums, White Snake (1977) and Northwinds (1978), before forming Whitesnake in 1978.