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Deep Purple Deep Purple Mark II in 1971. Left to right: , , , , . Background informationAlso known asRoundabout (1967)OriginLondon, EnglandGenres  (early) DiscographyYears active 1968–1976 1984–present Labels Spinoffs Members Past members Website

Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in London in 1967. They are considered to be among the pioneers of  and modern ,  but their musical approach has changed over the years. Originally formed as a  and  band, they shifted to a heavier sound with their 1970 album . Deep Purple, together with  and , have been referred to as the "unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal in the early to mid-seventies". They were listed in the 1975  as "" for a 1972 concert at London's  and have sold over 100 million albums worldwide.

Deep Purple have had several line-up changes and were broken up for eight years from 1976 to 1984, with drummer  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). Mark I comprised the founding members of Deep Purple,  (guitar),  (vocals),  (keyboards), Paice (drums) and  (bass), while Mark II was the most commercially successful line-up, with  and  replacing Evans and Simper respectively. Mark III saw  and  replace Gillan and Glover respectively, while Mark IV featured  replacing Blackmore. The band split in July 1976 and Bolin died from a drug overdose five months later. In 1984, Deep Purple reformed with the Mark II line-up, which remained in place until  replaced Gillan in 1989. Gillan rejoined in 1992, with Blackmore leaving for the second and final time the following year. He was replaced temporarily by  and then permanently by . In 2002 Jon Lord retired and was replaced by , 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 . Paice, Glover, Gillan, Airey and McBride comprise the current line-up of Deep Purple.

Deep Purple were ranked number 22 on 's Greatest Artists of Hard Rock programme, and a poll on radio station  ranked them 5th among the "most influential bands ever". The band received the Legend Award at the 2008 . Deep Purple (specifically Blackmore, Lord, Paice, Gillan, Glover, Coverdale, Evans, and Hughes) were inducted into the  in 2016.

History Beginnings (1967–1968)

In 1967, former  drummer  contacted London businessman Tony Edwards, in the hope he would manage a new group he was putting together, to be called Roundabout. Curtis' vision was a "supergroup" where the band members would get on and off, like a musical roundabout. Impressed with the plan, Edwards agreed to finance the venture with his two business partners  and Ron Hire, who comprised Hire-Edwards-Coletta Enterprises (HEC).

The first recruit to the band was classically trained  player , Curtis's flatmate, who had most notably played with  (led by , brother of future  and  guitarist , and including ).  Lord was then performing in a backing band for the vocal group  (formerly known as ), along with bassist  and drummer  (Simper had previously been in , and survived the 1966 car crash that killed Kidd). Lord alerted the two that he had been recruited for the Roundabout project, after which Simper and Little suggested guitarist , whom Lord had never met. Simper had known Blackmore since the early 1960s when his first band, the Renegades, debuted around the same time as one of Blackmore's early bands, the Dominators.

HEC persuaded Blackmore to travel in from  to audition for the new group. He was making a name for himself as a studio session guitarist, and had also been a member of , , and , the latter artist prompting Blackmore's move to Germany. Curtis's erratic behavior and lifestyle, fueled by his use of , caused him to display a sudden lack of interest in the project he had started, forcing HEC to dismiss him from Roundabout. However, HEC was now intrigued with the possibilities Lord and Blackmore brought and persuaded Ritchie to return from Hamburg a second time. Lord and Blackmore began the recruitment of additional members, retaining Tony Edwards as their manager. Lord convinced Nick Simper to join on bass, but Blackmore insisted they leave Carlo Little behind in favor of drummer . Woodman was the former drummer for 's Play-Boys (for whom he had played under the name Bobbie Clarke). The band, still calling themselves Roundabout, started rehearsing and writing in  in South Kensington.

In March 1968, Lord, Blackmore, Simper and Woodman moved into Deeves Hall, a country house in , Hertfordshire. The band would live, write and rehearse at the house; it was fully kitted out with the latest  and, at Lord's request, a  organ. According to Simper, "dozens" of singers were auditioned (including  and Woodman's friend Dave Curtiss) until the group heard  of club band the Maze, and thought his voice fitted their style well. Tagging along with Evans was his band's drummer . Blackmore had seen an 18-year-old Paice on tour with the Maze in Germany in 1966, and had been impressed by his drumming. The band hastily arranged an audition for Paice, given that Woodman was vocally unhappy with the direction of the band's music.  Both Paice and Evans won their respective jobs, and the line-up was complete.

During a brief tour of Denmark and Sweden in April, in which they were still billed as Roundabout, Blackmore suggested a new name: Deep Purple, after his grandmother's favorite song, "" by .  The group had resolved to choose a name after everyone had posted one on a board in rehearsal. Second to Deep Purple was "Concrete God", which the band thought was too harsh to take on.

Mark I (1968–1969): Shades of Deep Purple, The Book of Taliesyn and Deep Purple Deep Purple Mark I in 1968. Standing left to right: , , ; seated left to right: , .

In May 1968, the band moved into  Studios in London's  to record their debut album, , which was released in America in July by , and in Britain in September by .  was a notable influence on the band, with Blackmore claiming that the group started out wanting to be a "Vanilla Fudge clone". The group had success in North America with a cover of 's "", and by September 1968, the song had reached number 4 on the  in the US and number 2 in the Canadian  chart, pushing the Shades LP up to No. 24 on Billboard's pop albums chart. The following month, Deep Purple were booked to support  on the US leg of their  tour.

The band's second album, , was recorded quickly and released in North America in October 1968 to coincide with the tour. The album included 's "", which cracked the Top 40 in both the US (No. 38 on the Billboard chart) and Canada (No. 21 on the  chart), though sales for the album were not as strong (No. 54 in US, No. 48 in Canada). The Book of Taliesyn would not be released in the band's home country until the following year and, like its predecessor, it failed to have much impact in the .

Early in 1969, the band released the non-album single "Emmaretta", named after Emmaretta Marks, then a cast member of the musical , whom Evans was trying to seduce. By March of that year, the band had completed recording for their third album, . The album included the track "April", which featured strings and woodwind, showcasing Lord's classical antecedents such as  and . This would be the last recording by Deep Purple Mark I.

Deep Purple's North American record label, Tetragrammaton, delayed production of the Deep Purple album until after the band's 1969 American tour ended. This, as well as lackluster promotion by the nearly broke label, caused the album to sell poorly, finishing well out of the Billboard Top 100. Soon after Deep Purple was finally released in late June 1969, Tetragrammaton went out of business, leaving the band with no money and an uncertain future (Tetragrammaton's assets were eventually assumed by , who would release Deep Purple's records in the US throughout the 1970s).

During the 1969 American tour, Lord and Blackmore met with Paice to discuss their desire to progress the heavy rock side of the band further. Having decided that Evans and Simper would not fit well with the style they envisioned, both were replaced that summer. Paice stated, "A change had to come. If they hadn't left, the band would have totally disintegrated." Both Simper and Blackmore noted that Rod Evans already had one foot out of the door. Simper said that Evans had met a girl in  and had eyes on being an actor, while Blackmore explained, "Rod just wanted to go to America and live in America."  Evans and Simper would go on to co-form the bands  and  respectively.

Mark II (1969–1973): Concerto for Group and Orchestra, In Rock, Fireball, Machine Head, Made in Japan and Who Do We Think We Are Deep Purple Mark II in 1969. Left to right: Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Paice, Jon Lord, , 

The classic Mark II line-up of the band was formed in Hanwell Community Centre in West London. In search of a replacement vocalist, Blackmore set his own sights on 19-year-old singer . Though he found the offer "flattering", Reid was still bound by an exclusive recording contract with his producer  and more interested in his solo career. Blackmore had no other choice but to look elsewhere. The band sought out singer  from , a band that had released several singles in the UK without achieving any great commercial success. Six's drummer  – an old comrade of Blackmore's from his days in  – introduced the band to Gillan and bassist . According to Nick Simper, "Gillan would join only with Roger Glover." This effectively killed Episode Six, which gave Underwood a persistent feeling of guilt that lasted nearly a decade, until Gillan recruited him for  in the late 1970s. According to Blackmore, Deep Purple was only interested in Gillan and not Glover, but Glover was retained on the advice of Ian Paice.

"He turned up for the session...he was their bass player. We weren't originally going to take him until Paicey said, 'he's a good bass player, let's keep him.' So I said okay."

— Ritchie Blackmore on the hiring of .

This created Deep Purple Mark II, whose first release was a - tune titled "". At the time of its recording, Nick Simper still thought he was in the band and had called John Coletta to inquire about the recording dates for the song. He then found that the song had already been recorded with Glover on bass. The remaining original members of Deep Purple then instructed management to inform Simper that he had been officially replaced. Despite television appearances to promote the "Hallelujah" single in the UK, the song flopped. Blackmore had told the British weekly music newspaper  that the band "need to have a commercial record in Britain", and described the song as "an in-between sort of thing"—a compromise between the type of material the band would normally record, and openly commercial material.

Ritchie Blackmore in , Germany, 1970

In September 1969, the band gained some much-needed publicity in the UK with the , a three-movement epic composed by Lord as a solo project and performed by the band at the  in London with the , conducted by .  Alongside  by  and  by , it was one of the first collaborations between a rock band and an orchestra. This live album became their first release with any kind of chart success in the UK. Gillan and Blackmore were less than happy at the band being tagged as "a group who played with orchestras", both feeling that the Concerto was a distraction that would get in the way of developing their desired hard-rocking style. Lord acknowledged that while the band members were not keen on the project going in, at the end of the performance "you could have put the five smiles together and spanned the ." Lord would also write the , another orchestra/group collaboration in the same vein, for the band in late 1970, although the band's recording of the piece wouldn't be released until 1993. In 1975, Blackmore stated that he thought the Concerto for Group and Orchestra wasn't bad but that the Gemini Suite was horrible and very disjointed. Roger Glover later noted that Jon Lord had appeared to be the leader of the band in the early years.

Deep Purple live in Germany 1970.

Shortly after the orchestral release, Mark II began a hectic touring and recording schedule that was to see little respite for the next four years. The second album, and first studio album, of the Mark II era, released in 1970, was  (a name supported by the album's -inspired cover), which contained the then-concert staples "", "Into The Fire" and "". The non-album single "", released around the same time, finally put Deep Purple into the UK Top Ten. The interplay between Blackmore's guitar and Lord's distorted organ, coupled with Gillan's powerful, wide-ranging vocals and the rhythm section of Glover and Paice, now started to take on a unique identity that separated the band from its earlier albums.  Along with Zeppelin's  and Sabbath's , In Rock codified the budding  genre.

On the album's development, Blackmore stated: "I got fed up with playing with classical orchestras, and thought, 'well, this is my turn.' Jon was into more classical. I said, 'well you've done that, I'll do rock, and whatever turns out best we'll carry on with.'" In Rock performed well, especially in the UK where it reached No. 4, while the "Black Night" single reached No. 2 on the , and the band performed the song live on the 's .  In addition to increasing sales in the UK, the band were making a name for themselves as a live act, particularly with regard to the sheer volume of their shows and the improvisational skills of Blackmore and Lord. Said Lord, "We took from jazz, we took from old fashioned rock and roll, we took from the classics. Ritchie and myself...used to swap musical jokes and attacks. He would play something, and I'd have to see if I could match it. That provided a sense of humor, a sense of tension to the band, a sense of, 'what the hell's going to happen next?' The audience didn't know, and nine times out of ten, neither did we!"

A second Mark II studio album, the creatively progressive , was issued in the summer of 1971, reaching number 1 on the . The title track "" was released as a single, as was "", not from the album but recorded during the same sessions (although it replaced "Demon's Eye" on the US version of the album).  "Strange Kind of Woman" became their second UK Top 10 single, reaching No. 8.

 outside Montreux where  – excluding "" – was recorded in December 1971

Within weeks of Fireball's release, the band were already performing songs planned for the next album. One song (which later became "") was performed at the first show of the Fireball tour, having been written on the bus to a show in Portsmouth, in answer to a journalist's question: "How do you go about writing songs?"  On 24 October 1971 during the US leg of the Fireball tour, the band was set to play the  in Chicago when Ian Gillan contracted , forcing the band to play without him, with bassist Glover singing the set. After this, the rest of the US dates were cancelled and the band flew home.

In early December 1971, the band travelled to Switzerland to record . The album was due to be recorded at the  using the , but a fire during a  and  concert, caused by a man firing a flare gun into the ceiling, burned down the Casino. This incident famously inspired the song "". The album was later recorded in a corridor at the nearby empty , with the exception of the music track to "Smoke on the Water". That was recorded at a vacant theatre called The Pavillon before the band was asked to leave. On recording "Smoke on the Water", Blackmore stated to : "We did the whole thing in about four takes because we had to. The police were banging on the door. We knew it was the police, but we had such a good sound in this hall. We were waking up all the neighbours for about five miles in Montreux, because it was echo-ing through the mountains. I was just getting the last part of the riff down, we'd just finished it, when the police burst in and said 'you've got to stop'. We had the track down."

Continuing to progress the musical direction of the previous two albums, Machine Head was released in late March 1972 and became one of the band's most famous releases. It was the band's second No. 1 album in the UK while re-establishing them in North America, hitting No. 7 in the US and No. 1 in Canada.  It included tracks that became live classics, such as "Highway Star", "", "" and "Smoke on the Water", the last of which remains Deep Purple's most famous song. They continued to tour and record at a rate that would be rare thirty years on; when Machine Head was recorded, the group had only been together three-and-a-half years, yet it was their sixth studio album and seventh album overall.

Ian Gillan on stage in , 1972

In January 1972 the band returned to tour the US once again, then headed over to play Europe before resuming US dates in March. While in America, Blackmore contracted hepatitis, and the band attempted one show in , without a guitarist before attempting to acquire the services of , who rehearsed with the band before bowing out, suggesting  guitarist  instead. California played one show with the group, in , Quebec on 6 April, but the rest of this tour was cancelled as well.

The band returned to the US in late May 1972 to undertake their third North America tour (of four total that year). A Japan tour in August of that year led to a double live album, . Originally intended as a Japan-only release, its worldwide release became an instant hit, reaching platinum status in five countries, including the US. It remains one of rock music's most popular and highest selling live albums.

Mark II continued to work and released the album  in 1973. Spawning the hit single "", the album hit No. 4 in the UK charts and No. 15 in the US chart, while achieving gold record status faster than any Deep Purple album released up to that time.  However, internal tensions and exhaustion were more noticeable than ever. Following the successes of Machine Head and Made in Japan, the addition of Who Do We Think We Are made Deep Purple the top-selling artists of 1973 in the US.

Gillan admitted in a 1984 interview that the band was pushed by management to complete the Who Do We Think We Are album on time and go on tour, although they badly needed a break.  The bad feelings, including tensions with Blackmore, culminated in Gillan quitting the band after their second tour of Japan in the summer of 1973, followed by the dismissal of Glover, at Blackmore's insistence. In interviews later, Lord called the end of Mark II while the band was at its peak "the biggest shame in rock and roll; God knows what we would have done over the next three or four years. We were writing so well."

Mark III (1973–1975): Burn and Stormbringer Collage of Deep Purple Mark III in 1974, with  (left),  (top), Jon Lord (middle), Ian Paice (bottom), Ritchie Blackmore (right).

The band hired Midlands bassist/vocalist , formerly of . According to Paice, Glover told him and Lord a few months before his official termination that he wanted to leave the band, so they had started to drop in on Trapeze shows. After acquiring Hughes, they debated continuing as a four-piece, with Hughes as bassist and lead vocalist. According to Hughes, he was told the band was bringing in  of  as a co-lead vocalist, but by that time Rodgers had just started .  "They did ask", Rodgers recalled, "and I spoke to all of them at length about the possibility. Purple had toured Australia with Free's final lineup. I didn't do it because I was very much into the idea of forming Bad Company."  Instead, auditions were held for lead vocal replacements. They settled on , an unknown singer from  in north-east England, primarily because Blackmore liked his masculine, blues-tinged voice.

, the first album by Deep Purple Mark III, was released in February 1974 to great success, reaching No. 3 in the UK and No. 9 in the US, and was followed by another world tour. The , which opens the album and would open most concerts during the Mark III and IV eras, was a conscious effort by the band to embrace the progressive rock movement, which was popularized at the time by bands such as , , ,  and . Another notable song from the album was "".

Deep Purple co-headlined the  in 1974. They played to over 250,000 people at the  in Ontario, Southern California.

Mark III embarked on a spring tour that included shows at , New York, on 13 March, and  four days later. The band co-headlined (with ) the  festival at  in , southern California, on 6 April 1974. Attracting over 250,000 fans, the festival also included 1970s rock giants ,  and .  Portions of the show were telecast on  Television in the US, exposing the band to a wider audience. During the show, Blackmore doused his amplifiers with petrol and set them on fire, blowing a hole in the stage. A month later, the band's 22 May performance at the  in , London, was recorded and later released in 1982 as .

Hughes and Coverdale brought vocal harmonies and elements of funk and blues, respectively, to the band's music, a sound that was even more apparent on the late 1974 release . Along with the title track, the Stormbringer album had a number of songs that received significant radio play, such as "Lady Double Dealer", "The Gypsy" and "", and the album reached No. 6 in the UK and No. 20 on the US Billboard chart. Blackmore publicly disliked most of the album, however, derisively calling it "shoeshine music" out of distaste for its funk and soul elements.  A new live album, , culled from three shows on the Stormbringer tour, was assembled during the summer of 1975, but wouldn't see release until late 1976. Blackmore left the band on 21 June 1975 to form his own band with  of , called , shortened to Rainbow after the .

Mark IV (1975–1976): Come Taste the Band Deep Purple Mark IV in 1976. Standing left to right: David Coverdale, Ian Paice; seated left to right: Glenn Hughes, , Jon Lord

Following Blackmore's departure, the group considered disbanding but decided to continue and find another guitarist.  (, ),  (),  () and  were considered, and the final choice was American . There are at least two versions of the Bolin recruitment story: Coverdale claims to have been the one who suggested auditioning Bolin. "He walked in, thin as a rake, his hair coloured green, yellow and blue with feathers in it. Slinking along beside him was this stunning Hawaiian girl in a crochet dress with nothing on underneath. He plugged into four  100-watt stacks and...the job was his." But in an interview published by  in June 1975, Bolin claimed that he came to the audition following a recommendation from Blackmore.  Bolin had been a member of many late-1960s bands – Denny & The Triumphs, American Standard, and , which released three albums from 1969 to 1972. Before he joined Deep Purple, Bolin's best-known recordings had been made as a session musician on 's 1973  album , and as lead guitarist on two post-  albums:  (1973) and  (1974). He had also played with , , ,  and , and was busy working on his first solo album, , when he accepted the invitation to join Deep Purple.

Tommy Bolin in 1975.

The resulting album from Deep Purple Mark IV, , was released in October 1975, one month before Bolin's Teaser album. Despite mixed reviews and middling sales (#19 in the UK and #43 in the US), the collection revitalized the band once again, bringing a new, extreme funk edge to their  sound. Bolin's influence was crucial, and with encouragement from Hughes and Coverdale, the guitarist developed much of the album's material. Despite Bolin's talents, his personal problems with hard drugs began to surface. During the Come Taste the Band tour many fans openly booed Bolin's inability to play solos like Ritchie Blackmore, not realizing that Bolin was physically hampered by his addiction. At this same time, as he admitted in interviews years later, Hughes was suffering from cocaine addiction.

The last show on the tour was on 15 March 1976 at the . The break-up was finally made public in July 1976, with then-manager Rob Cooksey issuing a statement: "the band will not record or perform together as Deep Purple again". Bolin went on to record his second solo album, . On 4 December 1976, after a show in Miami supporting , Bolin was found unconscious by his girlfriend and bandmates. Unable to wake him, she hurriedly called paramedics, but it was too late. The official cause of death was multiple-drug intoxication. Bolin was 25 years old.

Band split (1976–1984)

After the break-up, most of the members of Deep Purple went on to have considerable success in a number of other bands, including  (1975–1984, Ritchie Blackmore and, from 1979, Roger Glover),  (1978–present, David Coverdale, Jon Lord until 1984 and Ian Paice during 1979 to 1982) and  (1978–1982, Ian Gillan). Ian Gillan also joined  from the end of 1982 to the beginning of 1984 (Glenn Hughes would also join Sabbath for a short time later in the 1980s). The now-defunct Deep Purple began to gain a type of mystical status, with fan-driven reissues and newly assembled live and compilation albums being released throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s. This fueled a number of promoter-led attempts to get the band to reform, especially with the revival of the hard rock market in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1980, a  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 unauthorized use of the name. Evans was ordered to pay damages of US$672,000 for using the band name without permission.

Mark II reunion (1984–1989): Perfect Strangers and The House of Blue Light Deep Purple Mark II during their reunion tour at the , San Francisco, 1985. Pictured left to right: Roger Glover, Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Richie Blackmore (out of shot: Jon Lord).

In April 1984, eight years after the demise of Deep Purple, a full-scale (and legal) reunion took place with the "classic" Mark II line-up of 1969–1973: Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan and Roger Glover. The reformed band signed a worldwide deal with , with  releasing their albums in the US, and  in the UK and other countries. The album  was recorded in  and released in October 1984. The album was commercially successful, reaching number 5 in the  and number 12 on the  in the US.  The album included the singles and concert staples "Knockin' At Your Back Door" and "".  Perfect Strangers became the second Deep Purple album to go platinum in the US, following Machine Head (Made in Japan would also finally hit platinum status in the US in 1986, the same year Machine Head increased to double platinum).

Promotional poster for the band's concert in Mannheim, Germany in 1985 during their 

The reunion tour followed, starting in Australia and winding its way across the world to North America, then into Europe by the following summer. Financially, the tour was also a tremendous success. In the US, the 1985 tour out-grossed every other artist except .  The UK homecoming saw the band headline the 1985  in June, where the weather was bad (torrential rain and 6 inches (15 cm) of mud) in front of 80,000 fans. The gig was called the "Return of the Knebworth Fayre".

Mark II followed Perfect Strangers with  in 1987, which was supported by another world tour (interrupted after Blackmore broke a finger on stage while trying to catch his guitar after throwing it in the air). A new live album , which was culled from several shows on this tour, was released in 1988. In the UK a new Mark II version of "Hush" was also released in 1988 to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Deep Purple.

Mark V (1989–1992): Slaves and Masters

Gillan was fired in 1989; his relations with Blackmore had again soured, and their musical differences had diverged too far. Originally, the band intended to recruit  frontman  as Gillan's replacement. After two weeks of sessions with the band, however, Jamison announced he could not join Deep Purple owing to complications with , his record label.  Eventually, after auditioning several high-profile candidates, including  (, , ),  (), Australians  () and  (), Terry Brock (Strangeways, ) and Norman "Kal" Swan (, , ), the band agreed on , who had previously been a member of Rainbow with Blackmore and Glover. This Mark V line-up recorded just one album,  (1990), and undertook a world tour for most of 1991. The album achieved modest success, reaching number 45 in the UK and number 87 in the US Billboard chart, with some fans and critics feeling the music was closer in style to Rainbow than to Deep Purple.

Second Mark II reunion (1992–1993) and Mark VI (1993–1994): The Battle Rages On...

With the tour complete, the band set to work on another album, the early sessions of which saw Turner being forced out. 1993 would be Deep Purple's twenty-fifth anniversary year, with Lord, Paice and Glover (and the record company) wanting Gillan back for another Mark II reunion to celebrate this milestone. Although Blackmore preferred Turner to remain in the group, he grudgingly relented, after requesting and eventually receiving $250,000 in his bank account and Mark II completed the aptly titled  in 1993.

Blackmore still disagreed with the decision, creating more tension between himself and the rest of the band, especially Gillan. Of particular contention was that Gillan had reworked much of the material that had been written with Turner for the new album. Blackmore felt Gillan's rewrites made the songs less melodic than they had been in their original versions. The band began a European tour, which was documented on the live album , released in 1994. A live home video of the same name was also released, covering a show in , England that displayed a very disgruntled Blackmore, who did not perform many of the guitar parts and at one point threw a cup of water at a cameraman for unknown reasons. The complete show was eventually released in 2006 as Live at the NEC but was quickly withdrawn after Gillan publicly complained, feeling it represented a bad time in the group's history:  "It was one of the lowest points of my life – all of our lives, actually".

Blackmore left Deep Purple for the second and final time after a show in , Finland on in November 1993.   was drafted to complete the Japanese dates in December and stayed on for a European summer tour in 1994. He was asked to join permanently, but his commitments to his contract with  prevented this. The band unanimously chose / guitarist  as Satriani's successor in August 1994.

"Musically, it was very satisfying. The setlist was straight out of classic rock heaven. And the band were just great. Their timing was just fantastic."

— Guitarist  on his brief period with Deep Purple.

Mark VII (1994–2002): Purpendicular and Abandon

Morse's arrival revitalised the band creatively, and in 1996 a new album titled  was released, showing a wide variety of musical styles. Though in the  mid '90s it was no surprise that it never made chart success on the Billboard 200 in the U.S. This Mark VII line-up then released a new live album  in 1997. With a revamped set list to tour, Deep Purple enjoyed successful tours throughout the rest of the 1990s, releasing the harder-sounding  in 1998, and touring with renewed enthusiasm. In 1999, Lord, with the help of a Dutch fan, who was also a musicologist and composer, , painstakingly recreated the , the original score having been lost. It was once again performed at the  in September 1999, this time with the  conducted by Paul Mann. The concert also included songs from each member's solo careers, as well as a short Deep Purple set, and the occasion was commemorated on the 2000 album . 2001 saw the release of the  , containing concerts from the 2001 Australian Tour plus two from Tokyo, Japan.  Much of the next few years was spent on the road touring. The group continued forward until 2002 when founding member Lord (who, along with Paice, was the only member to be in all incarnations of the band) announced his amicable retirement from the band to pursue personal projects (especially orchestral work). Lord left his Hammond organ to his replacement, rock keyboard veteran , who had helped Deep Purple out when Lord's knee was injured in 2001. Airey had previously worked with Glover as a member of Rainbow from 1979 to 1982.

Mark VIII (2002–2022): Bananas, Rapture of the Deep, Now What?!, Infinite, Whoosh! and Turning to Crime

In 2003, the new Mark VIII line-up released , their first studio album in five years, and began touring in support.  refused a contract extension with Deep Purple, possibly because of lower than expected sales. Actually In Concert with The London Symphony Orchestra sold more than Bananas.

Roger Glover and  playing the intro to "" at the , Toronto, 2005

The band played at the  concert in  (, Ontario) in July 2005, and in October released their next album, , which was followed by the . Both Bananas and Rapture of the Deep were produced by . In 2009 Ian Gillan said, "Record sales have been steadily declining, but people are prepared to pay a lot for concert tickets."  In addition, Gillan stated: "I don't think happiness comes with money."

Deep Purple did concert tours in 48 countries in 2011.   used a 38-piece orchestra, and included a performance at  in London. Until May 2011, the band members had disagreed about whether to make a new studio album, because it would not really make money any more. Roger Glover stated that Deep Purple should make a new studio album "even if it costs us money."  In early 2011, David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes told  they would like to reunite Mark III for the right opportunity, such as a benefit concert.  The current band's chief sound engineer on nine years of tours, Moray McMillin, died in September 2011, aged 57.  After a lot of songwriting sessions in Europe, Deep Purple decided to record through the summer of 2012, and the band announced they would release their new studio album in 2013.  Steve Morse announced to French magazine Rock Hard that the new studio album would be produced by .

Glover and Morse in 2013 in Spain

On 16 July 2012 the band's co-founding member and former organ player, Jon Lord, died in London, aged 71.  In December 2012 Roger Glover stated that the band had completed work on 14 songs for a new studio album, with 11 or 12 tracks set to appear on the final album to be released in 2013.  On 26 February 2013 the title of the band's nineteenth studio album was announced as , which was recorded and mixed in , Tennessee, and released on 26 April 2013. The album contains the track "", named after the  who had worked with both Gillan and Glover earlier in their careers.

Deep Purple live at Wacken Open Air in 2013. Left to right: Ian Paice, Roger Glover, Steve Morse, , Ian Gillan.

On 25 November 2016, Deep Purple announced  as the title of their twentieth studio album, which was released on 7 April 2017.  In support for the album, Deep Purple embarked on 13 May 2017 in Bucharest, Romania on . At the time of the tour's announcement in December 2016, Paice told the Heavyworlds website it "may be the last big tour", adding that the band "don't know". He described the tour as being long in duration and said: "We haven't made any hard, fast plans, but it becomes obvious that you cannot tour the same way you did when you were 21. It becomes more and more difficult. People have other things in their lives, which take time. But never say never."  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.

On 29 February 2020, a new track, "Throw My Bones" was released online, with a new album  planned for release in June.  The release of the full-length album would later be postponed to 7 August 2020 due to the .  A review in  said the album sounded nothing like contemporary music of 2020, but suggested that "maybe that's a good thing". Gillan confirmed in an interview on 4 August 2020 that he and the other members of Deep Purple have no immediate plans to retire.

On 6 October 2021, the band had announced the title of their covers album,  which was released on 26 November 2021.

Mark IX (2022–present) Deep Purple live in Germany, July 2022. Left to right: Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Ian Gillan, Don Airey, .

In March 2022, Morse announced that he had to take a hiatus from the band after his wife was diagnosed with cancer. The band, who had recently returned to live performances, continued touring with , formerly of , standing in for Morse who at that point officially remained in the band. On 23 July 2022, it was announced that Morse would be leaving permanently in order to focus on caring for his wife as she battles cancer. Later that September, McBride was made an official member of the band.

Glover, Gillan and McBride performing in 2022

In June 2022, Gillan announced that the band plans to work on their twenty-third studio album after the conclusion of the Whoosh! tour: "Deep Purple has got a writing session booked in March 2023, which I believe is to get started on thinking about our next record."

Legacy and influence

"In 1971, there were only three bands that mattered, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple."

— Def Leppard vocalist .

Deep Purple are cited as one of the pioneers of hard rock and heavy metal, along with  and . The  states they "made up the 'unholy trinity' of British hard rock and heavy metal during the genre's 1970s golden age."  The group have influenced a number of rock and metal bands including , , , , ,  , ,  , , , , and many  bands such as , and . Iron Maiden's bassist and primary songwriter, , states that his band's "heaviness" was inspired by "Black Sabbath and Deep Purple with a bit of Zeppelin thrown in."  Van Halen founder  named "" one of his favorite ever guitar riffs.  Queen guitarist  referred to Ritchie Blackmore as "a trail blazer and technically incredible — unpredictable in every possible way...you never knew what you were gonna see when you went to see Purple".  Metallica drummer  states, "When I was nine years old it was all about Deep Purple. My all time favourite [album] is still ".  The band's 1974 album Stormbringer was the first record owned by , vocalist of German  band .

Ian Paice (pictured in 2017). Ranked number 21 in 's 100 Greatest Drummers list, his magazine entry states, "without Deep Purple's only continuous member, there would be no heavy metal drumming."

While firmly placed in the hard rock and heavy metal categories, Deep Purple's music frequently incorporated elements of  and , prompting Canadian journalist  to once call the band "a reference point of a genre in metal without categorization."

In 2000, Deep Purple were ranked number 22 on 's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock" programme.  At the 2008 , the band received the Legend Award. In 2011, they received the Innovator Award at the 2011  Awards in London.  A  readers' poll in 2012 ranked  the sixth best live album of all time.  As part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of  (1972),  was released in 2012.  This tribute album included Iron Maiden, Metallica, , , , ,  vocalist ,  (former Van Halen members  and , guitarist  and  of ) and the supergroup Kings of Chaos (Def Leppard vocalist , , and former  members  and ).

In 2007, Deep Purple were one of the featured artists in the fourth episode of the BBC/VH1 series  – an episode focusing on heavy metal. In May 2019 the group received the  for International Achievement from the .

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Before October 2012, Deep Purple had never been nominated for induction into the  (though they have been eligible since 1993), but were nominated for induction in 2012 and 2013.  Despite ranking second in the public's vote on the Rock Hall fans' ballot, which had over half a million votes, they were not inducted by the Rock Hall committee.  bassist  and  bassist  commented that Deep Purple should obviously be among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. There have been criticisms in the past over Deep Purple not having been inducted.  guitarist  commented, "they put  in there but not Deep Purple? What's the first song every kid learns how to play? ["Smoke on the Water"] ... And they're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? ... the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has lost its cool because of the glaring omissions."   and  guitarist  expressed his surprise and disagreement regarding the non-induction of Deep Purple: "The list of people who haven't even been nominated is mind-boggling ... [the] big one for me is Deep Purple. How could you not induct Deep Purple?". Metallica band members ,  and  have also lobbied for the band's induction. In an interview with Rolling Stone in April 2014, Ulrich pleaded: "I'm not going to get into the politics or all that stuff, but I got two words to say: 'Deep Purple'. That's all I have to say: Deep Purple. Seriously, people, Deep Purple. Two simple words in the English language ... 'Deep Purple'! Did I say that already?" In 2015, , professional wrestler and vocalist of rock band , stated: "that Deep Purple are not in it [Hall of Fame]. It's bullshit. Obviously there's some politics against them from getting in there."

"With almost no exceptions, every hard rock band in the last 40 years, including mine, traces its lineage directly back to Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple. Where I grew up, and in the rest of the world outside of North America, all were equal in status, stature and influence. So in my heart – and I know I speak for many of my fellow musicians and millions of Purple fans when I confess that – I am somewhat bewildered that they are so late in getting in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."

—Excerpt from Lars Ulrich's speech, inducting Deep Purple into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

In response to these, a Hall of Fame chief executive said, "The definition of 'rock and roll' means different things to different people, but as broad as the classifications may be, they all share a common love of the music." Roger Glover got an inside word in there and they were talking of us as not "fashionable" enough. "One of the jurors said, 'You know, Deep Purple, they're just one-hit wonders.' How can you deal with that kind of Philistinism, you know?". Ian Gillan also commented, "I've fought all my life against being institutionalised and I think you have to actively search these things out, in other words mingle with the right people, and we don't get invited to those kind of things."  On 16 October 2013 Deep Purple were again announced as nominees for inclusion to the Hall, and once again they were not inducted.

In April 2015, Deep Purple topped the list in a Rolling Stone readers poll of acts that should be inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2016. In October 2015, the band were nominated for induction for the third time.  In December 2015, the band were announced as 2016 inductees into the Hall of Fame, with the Hall stating: "Deep Purple's non-inclusion in the Hall is a gaping hole which must now be filled", adding that along with fellow inductees Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, the band make up "the Holy Trinity of hard rock and metal bands."  The band was officially inducted on 8 April 2016. The Hall of Fame announced that the following members were included as inductees: Ian Paice, Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, Ian Gillan, Rod Evans, David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes. Excluded from induction were Nick Simper, Tommy Bolin, Joe Lynn Turner, Joe Satriani, Steve Morse and Don Airey.

It was reported that Ian Gillan announced that he was barring Hughes, Coverdale, Evans and Blackmore from playing with them onstage, as these members are not in the current "living, breathing" version of the band. When interviewed by Loudwire he stated however that this was not the case. An email was sent from his management to Blackmore's management but Blackmore claimed he never received said email. Of the seven living inducted members, five showed up. Blackmore didn't attend; a posting on his Facebook page claimed he was honored by the induction and had considered attending, until he received correspondence from Bruce Payne, manager from the current touring version of Deep Purple saying, "No!"  Evans, who had disappeared from the music scene more than three decades prior, also didn't appear. Since Lord had died in 2012, his wife Vickie accepted his award on his behalf. The current members of the band played "" for the opening performance. After a brief interlude playing the  song "" while photos of the late Jon Lord flashed on the screen behind them, the current Deep Purple members played two more songs: "" and their signature tune "". Although barred from playing with Deep Purple, both David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes (as well as Roger Glover) joined fellow inductees  and an all-star cast to perform a cover of the  song "".

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