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British rock band about|the band|the song after which they are named|Deep Purple (song)|their third album|Deep Purple (album)!''Deep Purple'' (album)|other uses Use British English December 2023 December 2023 Infobox musical artist | name = Deep Purple | image = Deep Purple (1971).JPG | caption = Deep Purple Mark II lineup in 1971. Left to right: Jon Lord, Roger Glover, Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore and Ian Paice. | landscape = yes | image_upright = 1.25 | genre = hlist|Hard rock|Heavy metal music|heavy metal|progressive rock|psychedelic rock (early) | discography = Deep Purple discography | origin = London, England | years_active = hlist|1968–1976|1984–present | label = flatlist| *Tetragrammaton Records|Tetragrammaton *Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros. *Polydor *Bertelsmann Music Group|BMG *EMI Records|EMI *Edel Records|Edel | spinoffs = flatlist| *Rainbow (rock band)|Rainbow *Whitesnake *Gillan (band)|Gillan *Paice Ashton Lord | website = URL|https://deep-purple.com/ | current_members = *Ian Paice *Roger Glover *Ian Gillan *Don Airey *Simon McBride | past_members = *Jon Lord *Ritchie Blackmore *Rod Evans *Nick Simper *David Coverdale *Glenn Hughes (English singer)|Glenn Hughes *Tommy Bolin *Joe Lynn Turner *Joe Satriani *Steve Morse ''Deep Purple'' are an English rock band formed in London in 1968.Cite web https://www.classicrockforever.com/ History of Deep Purple, Ritchie Blackmore Meets Jon Lord (True)) Classicrockforever.com They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal music|heavy metal and modern hard rock,cite book Wasler Robert https://books.google.com/books?id=YKPDF0I5p3kC&pg=PA10 Running with the Devil: power, gender, and madness in heavy metal music |page=10 Wesleyan University Press |year=1993 |isbn=9780819562609cite book |last1=Campbell |first1=Michael |last2=Brody |first2=James |year=2008 https://books.google.com/books?id=RK-JmVbv4OIC&pg=PA213 Rock and Roll: An Introducction |page=213 Cengage Learning |isbn=978-0534642952 although their musical style has varied throughout their career.cite news Wright Jeb http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/interviewIANGILLAN09.htm The Naked Truth: An Exclusive Interview with Deep Purple's Ian Gillan |work=Classic Rock Revisited |year=2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090427152050/http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/interviewIANGILLAN09.htm 27 April 2009 Originally formed as a psychedelic rock and progressive rock band, they shifted to a heavier sound with their 1970 album ''Deep Purple in Rock''. Deep Purple, together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, have been referred to as the "unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal in the early to mid-seventies".Joel McIver|McIver, Joel (2006). "Black Sabbath: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath". Chapter 12, p. 1. Listed in the 1975 ''Guinness World Records|Guinness Book of World Records'' as "Loudest band|the globe's loudest band" for a 1972 concert at London's Rainbow Theatre,cite book McWhirter Ross Guinness Book of World Records |year=1975 |edition=14 Sterling Pub. Co. |page=242 https://books.google.com/books?id=Rv26phaJLUAC&q=Deep+Purple+loudest+intitle:Guinness |isbn=978-0-8069-0012-4cite web http://www.allmusic.com/artist/deep-purple-p4061/biography Deep Purple |author=Jason Ankeny AllMusic 24 December 2011 they have sold over 100 million records worldwide.[http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/16/showbiz/jon-lord-obit/index.html "Jon Lord, keyboard player with seminal hard rock act Deep Purple, dies"]. CNN. Retrieved 25 July 2012[https://web.archive.org/web/20120719163954/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturevideo/musicvideo/9404573/Deep-Purple-keyboard-player-Jon-Lord-dies-aged-71.html "Deep Purple keyboard player Jon Lord dies aged 71"]. The Telegraph. Retrieved 25 July 2012[https://web.archive.org/web/20120719020546/http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/16/12771521-deep-purples-jon-lord-dies-at-71?lite "Deep Purple's Jon Lord dies at 71"] . MSNBC. Retrieved 25 July 2012 Deep Purple have had several line-up changes and disbanded for eight years from 1976 to 1984, with drummer Ian Paice being the band's only constant member. The first four line-ups, which constituted the band's original 1968–1976 run, are officially indicated as Mark I (1968–1969, Mark II (1969–1973, Mark III (1973–1975) and Mark IV (1975–1976).cite web http://www.ram.org/music/reviews/deep_purple.html Deep Purple reviews Ram.orgcite web http://www.rock.co.za/files/marki.html Deep Purple Mark I & Mark II Rock.co.za Mark I comprised the founding members of Deep Purple, Ritchie Blackmore (guitar, Rod Evans (vocals, Jon Lord (keyboards, Paice (drums) and Nick Simper (bass, while Mark II was the most commercially successful line-up, with Ian Gillan and Roger Glover replacing Evans and Simper respectively. Mark III saw David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes (English singer)|Glenn Hughes replace Gillan and Glover respectively, while Mark IV featured Tommy Bolin replacing Blackmore. The band split in July 1976, and Bolin died from a drug overdose five months later. Deep Purple reformed in 1984 with the Mark II line-up, which remained in place until Joe Lynn Turner replaced Gillan in 1989. Gillan rejoined in 1992, and Blackmore left for the second and final time the following year. He was replaced temporarily by Joe Satriani and then permanently by Steve Morse. In 2002, Lord retired and was replaced by Don Airey, which saw Deep Purple settle into its longest running line-up, unchanged for the next twenty years, until Morse announced his departure from the band in 2022. His place was taken by Simon McBride. Paice, Glover, Gillan, Airey and McBride comprise the current line-up of Deep Purple. Deep Purple were ranked number 22 on VH1's ''Greatest Artists of Hard Rock'' programme,cite web http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/vh1-counts-down-the-100-greatest-artists-of-hard-rock-in-five-hour-five-night-special-premiering-november-13-17-at-1000-pm-etpt-75380612.html VH1 Counts Down the '100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock' In Five-Hour, Five-Night Special 8 July 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20121025064126/http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/vh1-counts-down-the-100-greatest-artists-of-hard-rock-in-five-hour-five-night-special-premiering-november-13-17-at-1000-pm-etpt-75380612.html 25 October 2012 and a poll on radio station Planet Rock (radio station)|Planet Rock ranked them 5th among the "most influential bands ever".[http://www.planetrock.com/promotions/most-influential-rock-band-poll/planet-rock-poll-most-influential-band-ever-the-results/ "Planet Rock: Most Influential Band Ever – The Results"]. Planet Rock (radio station)|Planet Rock. Retrieved 25 February 2013 The band received the Legend Award at the 2008 World Music Awards. Deep Purple (specifically Blackmore, Lord, Paice, Gillan, Glover, Coverdale, Evans, and Hughes) were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016.
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