History Music / DeepPurple

Despite only lasting for little over a year, Deep Purple Mk. I produced three albums and a single that remains one of their biggest hits, "Hush". This lineup was dissolved after Evans and Simper were fired in favor of Episode Six's Gillan and Glover. This lineup played rather standard 60's Psychedelic Pop, with some hints of hard rock.

* '''Albums''': ''Burn'', ''Stormbringer'' (1974).

The band recruited bassist and vocalist Glenn Hughes from another well-known British band, Trapeze, but Blackmore sought a vocalist with a more bluesy voice to be the frontman. Frustrated by attempts to recruit Paul Rodgers (of Music/FreeBand and Music/BadCompany), Deep Purple ended up selecting an unknown singer named David Coverdale from a pile of submitted tapes. This is the lineup that played at the infamous California Jam concert where Blackmore attacked the cameraman with his guitar and set off an explosion on part of the stage. Blackmore walked out on the band in 1975, at which point Deep Purple made the fateful choice to go on without him. This lineup started out playing the hard rock the band was known for, but gradually introduced more funk and soul elements, to Ritchie Blackmore’s disgust.

After Ian Gillan quit, the band struggled to find a replacement vocalist. Blackmore recruited American Joe Lynn Turner, the former vocalist of Blackmore's band, Rainbow. Lord and Paice were dissatisfied with Turner, and record label pressure eventually resulted in Turner's dismissal and the return of Gillan in 1992. Though short-lived, this lineup sounded quite similar to Rainbow, understandable given that three fifths of the lineup were Rainbow alumni.

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* BlackSheep: Good luck finding a radio station that will play anything other than ''Machine Head'', ''In Rock'', and ''Burn''.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Ian Gillan.

* CoolOldGuy: The current lineup has ended up as this. As of early 2019 all but one are seventy or older, and are still managing a punishing tour schedule, not to mention side projects.

* BadassBaritone: David Coverdale and Rod Evans, in contrast to Ian Gillan and Glenn Hughes.
** Even then, Gillan is technically a baritone, having had some impressive low notes as well.
** Gillan during the ''Who Do We Think We Are'' era.

* HeavyMetal: A significant influence, and the primary influence of the faster, more technical genres of Metal. They're one of the oldest bands to be accepted on the Metal Archives, and the Mark II, Mark VII, and Mark VIII albums are generally agreed to be the most "metal" of their works.

* BreakupBreakout: Funnily enough, for such an influential band, this applies a lot.
** Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, and Coverdale's Whitesnake are obvious examples, being ''at least'' as well-known as Purple.
** Roger Glover, despite not being a household name carved out an impressive career post-Purple - creating an acclaimed rock opera, as well as producing for bands such as Status Quo, Nazareth, Whitesnake, Elf and most famously, played a huge role in shaping metal history by producing Judas Priest's seminal ''Sin After Sin''.

* CoverVersion: Quite a few, especially of songs by Music/TheBeatles (one of which, "Help", was thought by Music/JohnLennon to be better than [[Music/{{Help}} their own version]]).

* CoverVersion: Quite a few, especially of songs by Music/TheBeatles (one of which, "Help", was thought by Music/JohnLennon to be [[BetterThanCanon better]] than [[Music/{{Help}} their own version]]).

* AllGuitarsAreStratocasters: Played straight with Ritchie Blackmore and Tommy Bolin. Blackmore did primarily use an ES-335 up to ''In Rock''.

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[[caption-width-right:350: From left to right: Roger Glover, Simon [=McBride=], Ian Gillan, Ian Paice and Don Airey]]

* OneWordTitle: “Anthem,” “Shield,” “Blind,” “Burn,” “Lalena,” “April", "Solitaire", "Bananas", "Lazy", "Stormbringer", "Fireball".

* OneWordTitle: “Anthem,” “Shield,” “Blind,” “Burn,” “Lalena,” “April", "Solitaire", "Bananas".

[[caption-width-right:350: The current lineup (Mark VIII). From left to right: Don Airey, Ian Paice, Steve Morse, Ian Gillan and Roger Glover.]]

* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: "Strange Kind of Woman" from ''Fireball'' and "Lady Luck" off ''Come Taste The Band''

* OneWordTitle: “Anthem,” “Shield,” “Blind,” “Lalena,” “April", "Solitaire", "Bananas".

So far there have been eight distinct lineups, or Marks, not including a "bogus" Deep Purple that toured in 1980 with only one original member (vocalist Rod Evans).

!Deep Purple Mark VIII (2002–present)

!Deep Purple 2022 Tour

While Steve Morse has not quit the band, he is taking time off due to his wife’s illness. Simon [=McBride=] is taking over guitar duties live, just as Joe Satriani had done when Ritchie Blackmore left. Morse is expected to re-join.

* [[Music/{{Kansas}} Steve Morse]] - guitars (1994–present)

* NiceHat: Roger Glover. In recent years he's taken to a bandana, though. Ritchie Blackmore also sported a top hat, and sometimes a witches' hat in the mid-'70s, as seen on the cover of ''Burn''.

* GenreRoulette: While they are generally considered a HardRock band, their music incorporates multiple influences. In addition, each Mark has its signature take on rock (with Mark I being more of a ProgressiveRock or PsychedelicRock bent, Mark II on the harder rock part, Mark III / IV known for funk influences, Mark V with an AOR sound that sounded more like '80s Music/{{Rainbow}} or Music/{{Foreigner}}, and the modern lineup being a mix of all of this with strong prog rock elements.

* ContemptibleCover: It does not help that the cover of their third (self-titled) album is a painting by Creator/HieronymusBosch.

* CanonDiscontinuity: The Ian Gillan-led versions of the group have never played anything from the David Coverdale/Glenn Hughes years. Gillan has even gone so far as to say he doesn't consider the three studio albums made during that period (''Burn,'' ''Stormbringer'' and ''Come Taste the Band'') to even ''be'' Deep Purple albums, although he admits they contain some very good music. Ditto for anything off ''Slaves and Masters'', from the [[Music/{{Rainbow}} Joe Lynn Turner]] era.

* AllGuitarsAreStratocasters: Played straight with Ritchie Blackmore and Tommy Bolin.

American guitarist Tommy Bolin, known for his time in The James Gang, joined Deep Purple. By this time, Hughes was a cocaine addict, and Bolin turned out to be a heroin junkie. Deep Purple, never known as a junkie band, was beset with troubles as the members grappled with addictions and personal problems. A disastrous concert in UsefulNotes/{{Indonesia}} resulted in one of the band's road crew being murdered when thrown down an elevator shaft, and Deep Purple being forced to play an additional concert practically at gunpoint. Bolin tragically died from a heroin overdose in December 1976, ending the Mark IV lineup (and the band, until 1984) for good. Coverdale would go on to form his own band, Music/{{Whitesnake}}, and Paice and Lord would join that band for several albums. Hughes had a brief stint as Music/BlackSabbath's singer and also collaborated with Joe Lynn Turner (of the Mk. V lineup) in the Hughes-Turner Project. This lineup played Funk Rock, similar to Glenn Hughes' old band Trapeze.

* RagTagGroupOfMisfits: The classic line-up was comprised of a classically-trained jazz/classical musician (Jon Lord), a skilled record producer (Roger Glover), a young drum prodigy (Ian Paice), a former pop singer (Ian Gillan) and a session guitarist that was something of a legend in ''Germany'' of all places (Blackmore).

* AlbumSingle: A great many over the years.
** ''Whoosh!'', featured three singles, "Throw My Bones" (the first song from the album), "Man Alive", and "Nothing at All". This last one was only released as a single because of the COVID-19 pandemic forcing them into delaying the album.