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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 : "It was a great song [which] would be a good song [for] our act, if we could ...
When Deep Purple's first line-up came together in 1967, there was a moment of transition for the British music scene. Beat was still popular, especially in dance halls and outside the capital, but the tastes of young people buying records and filling up the clubs was rapidly changing in favour of blues rock, progressive rock and psychedelic rock. [2]
[124] On 3 February 2017, Deep Purple released a video version of "Time for Bedlam", the first track taken from the new album and the first new Deep Purple track for almost four years. [ 125 ] On 29 February 2020, a new track, "Throw My Bones" was released online, with a new album Whoosh! planned for release in June.
The song contained lines directly lifted from the Byrds' 1967 song "Everybody's Been Burned," [1] while the melody prominently features an organ riff lifted from the Deep Purple rendition of the song "Hush". [2] In addition, Martin Blunt has described Jon Baker's guitar part as resembling that of the Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On".
Shades 1968–1998 is a 4 CD-Box-Set by the English hard rock band Deep Purple.It was released on 16 March 1999. It spans their career from 1968 to 1998. This box set contains rare edits and singles which are remastered along with album versions of their biggest hits.
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.
"Highway Star" is a song by the English rock band Deep Purple. It is the opening track on the band's sixth studio album Machine Head (1972) and is the fastest tempo song on the album. It is characterised by long, classically inspired guitar and organ solos. [6]
The live album also featured a studio re-recording of the 1968 hit "Hush" with Gillan on vocals, to commemorate Deep Purple's 20th anniversary. (The original 1968 release had been sung by Rod Evans). Gillan later remarked that the album was "the embodiment of all the things wrong with Purple."