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Deep Purple is an English hard rock band formed in Hertfordshire in 1968. Together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath they are considered to be heavy metal/hard rock pioneers. Especially influential to heavy metal were Ian Gillan’s powerful screams and Ritchie Blackmore’s virtuous solos. Deep Purple were also very influential to progressive rock.

Deep Purple’s early output ranged from rock (such as their cover of Joe South’s “

Hush”) to strongly classically influenced pieces (such as “

April”, from their third album). Their first few albums contained very long solos, such as those on the band’s covers of “

Hey Joe” and “

I’m So Glad.”

After their third album, founding member and guitarist Ritchie Blackmore in particular felt the band should move in a harder direction - and felt that then singer Rod Evans and bassist Nicky Simper were incapable of working in that direction. Both were therefore let go, and replaced with singer Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover from Episode Six, producing what is now thought of as the classic Deep Purple lineup with keyboardist Jon Lord and drummer Ian Paice.

The first output of this new lineup was a mixed electric and orchestral album with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Deep Purple In Concert, with the centrepiece being Lord’s “

Concerto For Group And Orchestra.

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Syncmaster2 wrote:
5 hours ago

Deep Purple ist die geilste music Sido usw. das sind sachen die kannste in die Tonne kloppen

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FightforFreedom wrote:
yesterday evening

Usually prefer live to studio? Then check this group out! http://www.last.fm/group/Live+is+better+than+Studio

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guaihouwang wrote:
yesterday afternoon

good!

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ika9101 wrote:
yesterday afternoon

great! child in time :* :* :* :* :* :*

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maidenhell wrote:
yesterday morning

Please join my group MUSIC TO SCREW, CRY & DIE TO.

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Aqrab wrote:
Thursday evening

Has anyone got "you fool no one" here, i think they rocked it when played it live in US!

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oleg_maxim wrote:
Wednesday evening

The Classic, great band, but very-very overrated.

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superclayden wrote:
Wednesday evening

I met someone who claimed their uncle was in the band :O

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poogyahaha wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

yeahhhhhh!

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mustarousku wrote:
Wednesday morning

The BIG-BIG BIG ones!!!

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friguido wrote:
Wednesday morning

1968 - present AND 1984 - present?

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Terminator3 wrote:
Tuesday evening

www.davesharman.com possibly the world's most underated guitar player and he's an Englishman!

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zackomatic wrote:
Monday evening

I saw them in Israel about a month ago... It was awesome, they didn't loose it! Steve morse was great!

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Symmetryx wrote:
Monday evening

deep purple *_*

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alfapp wrote:
last week

Early Purple is best Purple

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demoniac_wrath wrote:
last week

saw them live 2 years ago, and it was the greatest concert i've ever went

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ititokotoko wrote:
last week

Hello everybody! I WANT TO SAVE THE ROCK!!! There is a big problem! There is a new band called Giant! In last.fm http://www.last.fm/music/Giant with the same name is the old AOR band Giant and the experimental doom metal band Giant.When users listening "Giant" they see the same name,different pictures and different similar artists-something like this: Tides, Rosetta, Winger,Bonfire..... I want to ask you to visit this link http://www.last.fm/music/Giant/+images and give your negative vote about every picture of the experimental doom metal band.This is really important!This is the way to erase their photos like default pictures for this band. You must give you positive vote about every pictures of the AOR band Giant : and tell for this on your friend!Chears! Sorry, but this isn`t the way to bacome famous -using Dann Huff`s band! Thank you!

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PanSandro wrote:
last week

http:// rap id share .com /files/150423354/National_Russian_classical_music.rar.html - These compositions are more difficult and are serious. The majority of them are made by a principle of Russian folk songs and have patriotic subjects.

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Autistic_Cucoo wrote:
last week

Child in time is overrated

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WhiteStripe wrote:
last week

we are all sweet childs in time

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