DEEP PURPLE : LOUDEST ROCKBAND IN THE WORLD

DEEP PURPLE : LOUDEST ROCKBAND IN THE WORLD. Deep purple is a pioneer of heavy metal bandrock role model. Deep Purple held the record and were recognized by The Guinness Book of World Records as the "globe's loudest band" when in a concert at Rainbow Theater London with 3,000-seat, that rendered three fans unconscious with the intense pressure created by 117 dB of sound in an enclosed space. As Robert Ripley said, “Believe it or not!”. This might sound like urban legend, but The Guinness Book of World Records crowned Deep Purple the world’s loudest band after a 1972 concert at London’s.

Deep Purple Live concert

Deep Purple are a British rock band formed in Hertford , Hertfordshire , in 1968. Along with the bands Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin , Deep Purple is considered one of the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock. Deep Purple also incorporated elements of classical music, blues- rock , pop and rock progressive. Were listed by the Guinness Book of World Records " as the band with the highest sound live in the world ", and sold over 100 million albums around the world.

Deep Purple went through several lineup changes , plus an eight-year hiatus [1976-1984]. The formations of the period 1968-1976 were commonly called phases [Mark] I, II , III and IV. Deep Purple Mark II , the most commercially successful , featured Ian Gillan [vocals] , Ritchie Blackmore [guitar] , Jon Lord [keyboards] , Roger Glover [bass] and Ian Paice [drums]. This formation was active from 1969 to 1973 , and was gathered from 1984 to 1989 and briefly in 1993 , before the friction between guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and the other band members became unbridgeable .

The current lineup includes guitarist Steve Morse [ex - Kansas , former Dixie Dregs] , who joined the band in 1994 . With the departure of Jon Lord , in 2002 , Deep Purple account only with drummer Ian Paice as an original member .

Deep Purple has always been the band's blend of guitar and keyboard , with simple riffs and strong sound. His best known song is 'Smoke on the Water', Highway Star etc.

HISTORY OF DEEP PURPLE
In 1967 , Chris Curtis , former drummer of The Searchers , connected the London businessman Tony Edwards , in the hope that he would get a new group he was putting together , to be called Roundabout . They would take turns around the drummer , like a carousel . After the idea was bought by producer Tony Edwards , the first musician to discover it was the keyboardist Jon Lord , fellow Curtis in The Flowerpot Men , where he also played bassist Nick Simper .

Deep Purple Mark I

It was the late '60s , and Curtis was stuck up to his neck in the zeitgeist. Once, Lord entered the apartment and found the walls covered with aluminum foil. His colleague had redecorated the house to change the mood. On, off , hits the road : Curtis disappeared . The group found a guitarist - Ritchie Blackmore , knew a drummer - Ian Paice - who brought a colleague from The Maze - vocalist Rod Evans . With the departure of Curtis , just the idea of rotation and the band had to change its name . In February 1968 , After a brief tour of Denmark and Sweden in April, in which they were still billed as Roundabout, Blackmore suggested a new name: "Deep Purple", named after his grandmother's favourite song.

The beginning of Deep Purple[1967-1968]

The first album , Shades of Deep Purple , was released in September 1968 . Stuffed rewrites [ including progressive versions of " Help! " , The Beatles , and "Hey Joe " by Jimi Hendrix] , the album broke the charts in the United States with a Joe South song " Hush " , the first single band . In December of that year , when the second disc Album  The Book of Taliesyn had already been released, they made their first tour in America , watching the Cream . On this tour , besides visiting the mansion of Hugh Hefner , founder of Playboy magazine, the group also found that another reason for his success in the New World came from the name of the band - even then a very popular drug in California .

 The second disc also featured re-recordings as " River Deep , Mountain High " [hit for Tina Turner] , " We Can Work it Out " [Beatles] and " Kentucky Woman" [Neil Diamond] . The composition " Wring That Neck " [called " Hard Road " in the United States , the violence of the name] survived in the setlist of the group , the extinction of training the following year . Was the vehicle of some of the most inspired solos exchanges between Blackmore and Lord .

Deep Purple Mark II early

In 1969 , Blackmore and Lord were unhappy with the sound of the group. They both wanted to experiment more with volume and power , but considered that the voice of Evans did not accompany the changes . The third disc of the group , called "Deep Purple" , reflects the tension of a band that had their feet on the English '60s rock and head into something that was yet to be created . Under invitation from drummer Mick Underwood , on June 24 , Blackmore and Lord were giving a group presentation Episode Six , whose lead singer [Ian Gillan] former colleague Blackmore had spoken very well. The two members of Deep Purple came up on stage to jam . He started there as tense and creatively decisive month throughout the career of Deep Purple .

Blackmore , Lord and Paice combined a test with Ian Gillan . He took his friend Roger Glover , bassist also from Episode Six . Together , the five recorded the single " Hallellujah " on June 7 . Approved the two , Deep Purple went on to have a double life . During the day , the second training rehearsed in Hanwell Community Centre and at night , the first training was still performing as if nothing was happening . Evans and Simper did not know what was happening until the eve of the opening of Mark II on stage , on July 10 . The situation was so crazy that on June 10, 1969 , Episode Six and Deep Purple performed at dances Cambridge . The Deep Purple eleven presentations made ​​between the choice of new members and the debut of the new phase , the Episode Six , eight. But Gillan and Glover also made ​​four other shows to fulfill the contract with the E6 until July 26 , alternating with the first three shows of Mark II .

The projects that had already occurred , however, continued . The third album "Deep Purple" had just been released in England when the new formation , with its boldest musical proposal , debuted . It was released at a time when the band were starting to grow as performers, both live and in the studio, finding their direction musically. There were some conflicts over whether the band should continue on their rawer, heavier direction. This caused turmoil, which was partially responsible for two of the members, Nick Simper [bass] and Rod Evans [vocals], being replaced.

Jon Lord was also completing his Concerto for Group & Orchestra , to be presented at the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on 24 September. On that day , besides showing the new type of composition devised by Lord [linking the languages ​​of classical music and rock] , the English of all social classes met " Child in Time " , also composed in Hanwell . The composition shows all that the new formation brought again from the previous : changes of pace , powerful solos , screaming banshee. The 1969 performance was the first ever combination of rock music and a complete orchestra and has been cited as paving the way for other rock/orchestra performances such as Metallica's S&M concert and Roger Waters's The Wall – Live in Berlin performance.

The new Deep Purple [Mark II] was electric and explosive, and it would be very clear on the first drive of the new training - In Rock album , released in April 1970 . The British were able to see track by track from the new album via BBC during the several months leading up to launch. Met including unreleased tracks like " Jam Stew " and an early version of " Speed ​​King " called " Kneel and Pray " with a completely different and far more malicious than the known and sung today letter.

The second hard Mark II was fireball album, but which maintains the electricity is appealing to a more experimental way. Even a country ["Anyone 's Daughter"] includes the disc , alongside instrumental long as the " Fools " and closer to what was in the previous album , like " Strange Kind of Woman" to the songs . The tour dates 1971 , available only on bootleg recordings show a more mature and bolder band. Is this tour Ian Gillan starts making his voice duels with Blackmore 's guitar, for example. Fireball is the fifth album by Deep Purple, released in 1971 and the second with the Mark II lineup.

Conquering the World

The next step in the trial of Deep Purple would record a studio album made ​​under the same conditions of a live performance. Machine Head Album the sixth studio album released by Deep Purple is often cited as a major influence in the early development of the heavy metal music genre. Commercially, it was Deep Purple's most successful album, topping the charts in several countries following its release. The album reached number 1 in the United Kingdom and stayed in the top 40 for 20 weeks. It reached number 7 in the United States, remaining on the Billboard 200 for 118 weeks.

Deep Purple Mark II

All together , in the same environment , creating and recording together as the long instrumental jams they did on stage . They already had some almost ready songs : " Highway Star " began to be created inside a bus , when a journalist asked how they created their music . Blackmore said : " well " , and began playing a busy riff . Gillan went on a bender and began improvising a letter: " We're on the road , we're on the road , we're a rock'n'roll " . In September , the first version of what would be " Highway Star " was already beginning to be experienced on stage and in the German TV show Beat Club . It is this presentation that comes the video for " Highway Star " on which Blackmore uses a wizard's hat and Gillan babbles words about Mickey Mouse and Steve McQuinn . " Lazy " is another song which began being tested before going on stage to the studio.

Deep Purple Mark II

Smoke On The Water Stories.
In December 1971 , they had found the right place to create and burn disc this site : Montreux , Switzerland, where even today a famous jazz festival occurs . The best place would be to record the big casino in town , where traditionally there were musical performances . The casino was not released for Deep Purple when they arrived - missing a final presentation, Frank Zappa , to end the season. The group then went to watch the show. Zappa always been an innovator of rock, and in particular show that he used a synthesizer last generation . In the middle of the show , someone sets fire to the casino .

The music stops . Zappa yells " FIRE Arthur Brown in person ! " and guides the audience to leave the casino quietly. In interviews , Roger Glover says that everyone was really quiet - enough so that he himself could also take a look at synthesizer before leaving the building. Meanwhile , Claude Nobs , who today arranges the Montreux Jazz Festival , running from one side to the other to take some viewers inside the casino .

The Biggest Phases Deep Purple Mark II

The group was transferred to the Grand Hotel in Montreux . In winter , it was empty , it was cold and all the furniture was saved . They parked outside the mobile unit recording of the Rolling Stones , pulled some wires , comfortably installed their instruments in the corridors of the hotel and started rehearsing . The result is that today all shows Deep Purple contain at least four of the seven songs from Machine Head album, released in 1972 .

The entire recording history is told in a few words in the song " Smoke on the Water " , the last to be written to disk . Blackmore had created a riff that was not used, then nicknamed " durrh - durrh " . There was no letter. Then came the idea to write about what happened on the disc's recording . Gillan says they were in a bar when Roger Glover wrote on a napkin the song title [meaning " smoke on the water " , a good description of the photograph published in a newspaper following the fire day] . Glover says that the words came to him in a dream and that Gillan replied: " will not roll ; sounds like a song about drugs , but we 're a band that drink ." None of them would bet that more than thirty years of playing " durrh - durrh " all night , such was the success that the song reached . Although it was recorded in December , she only entered the setlist on March 9 , a show on the BBC. This first display consists of In Concert 1970-1972 .

Deep Purple Live in Japan

The year 1972 is extremely busy , and it Deep Purple first came to Japan , where he recorded his most famous live album , Made in Japan. recorded during their first tour of Japan in August 1972. It was originally released in December 1972, with a U.S. release in April 1973, and became a commercial and critical success. he album continues to attract praise. A Rolling Stone readers' poll in 2012 ranked Made in Japan the sixth best live album of all time.

In Italy , the group also prepared the recording of Who Do We Think We Are . The pace of the band's work , however, was costly to them . On several occasions , members of the group got sick . Guitarist Randy California came to replace Blackmore on a show , Gillan and Roger Glover replaced another. The relationships between members - and especially between Gillan and Blackmore - did not fare as well. Who Do We Think We Are is the seventh studio album by Deep Purple, released in 1973. It was Deep Purple's last album with singer Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover until Perfect Strangers in 1984. In December , Gillan handed his resignation , warning that would leave the group in late June 1973 , giving entrepreneurs and colleagues six months to decide what to do in the group.

Time for change
On June 29, 1973 , the second group trip to Japan and after a flawless show, in which Jon Lord included the "Happy Birthday " to Paice on your keyboard solo [it was the birthday of drummer] , Ian Gillan back to stage and warns that it would be the last concert of Deep Purple with that training . During the show , there was no other sign of wear . In retrospect , the silence of Gillan 's time to sing the verse " the matter what we get out of this " [" no matter what we get out of it "] in " Smoke on the Water " could indicate that all he could take what had already finished . Glover also left the group , began dedicating himself to production in the artistic department of Purple Records - the label of the group .

Deep Purple Mark III

The first new member recruited to Deep Purple , shortly after the end of Mark II, was the bassist Glenn Hughes , from Trapeze Group . The duo wowed ability Blackmore and Lord , but he would not be left alone on vocals . Deep Purple The plan was to seek the voice of Paul Rodgers ( ex - Free, ex - Bad Company ) . After a first contact , he asked for time to think and decided to continue with his band at the time, the then Free . While following the search for new vocalist , Blackmore and Hughes would be knowing and playing together . What would become the blues " Mistreated " without the letter was composed at that time .

The chance to play the group with just four members was contemplated , but the idea of having two vocalists spoke louder . With this idea in the streets , entrepreneurs Deep Purple never stopped receiving new artists tape . One of them had been sent by a boy of twenty-one years old, singing since I was fifteen : David Coverdale . And his band Deep Purple had already crossed paths in November 1969 , a show at the University of Bradford , when Gillan and Glover had just joined Deep Purple. The test Coverdale occurred in August 1973 . For six hours , they played material from Deep Purple and best-known songs, such as " Long Tall Sally " and " Yesterday" . When Coverdale went home , the rest of Deep Purple went out to drink and decided : it was the same chubby ( in the following months , the entrepreneurs of the band would give you some medicine to fine tune the appearance ) . On September 9 , the new group is locked for two weeks at Clearwell Castle to compose . Thrilled , Coverdale - whose stage experience was only recording demos - wrote to four different music it would be " Burn " lyrics. One was called " The Road " . On day 23 , a day after Coverdale was twenty- two years, stage III was presented to the British press . In November , the Burn disc was recorded again in Montreux , with the same mobile unit with the Rolling Stones that was recorded Machine Head . The new team estrearia on stage on December 8 , Denmark. It was the debut of Deep Purple Mark III . The disc would come out in 1974 .

The sound of the new lineup [Mark III] was marked by greater speed and Blackmore technique on guitar and the tension between the two singers . In the studio , the duets were perfect . On stage , Hughes put to work all the power of his lungs whenever he could , often coming to intimidate Coverdale .

Bassist and singer also added to the recipe of Deep Purple a good pinch of spice funky - that Blackmore originally accepted reluctantly , understanding that although this style living on the charts at the time, was not part until then , the constituent elements the sound of Deep Purple.

Deep Purple Mark III released new album was recorded in Montreux, Switzerland, in November 1973 "Burn" with the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio. With the addition of Coverdale and Hughes, Purple's hard rock sound became more boogie oriented, incorporating elements of soul and funk which would become much more prominent on the follow-up album, Stormbringer. Burn introduced a new unknown vocalist David Coverdale, and new bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes from Trapeze. Burn is a phenomenal title track started things off at full throttle, actually challenging the seminal "Highway Star" for the honor of best opener to any Deep Purple album, while showcasing the always impressive drumming of Ian Paice.

On 6 April 1974, the group performed in California, United States, to an audience of two hundred thousand people - was the California Jam festival that lasted twelve hours and was led by Deep Purple. The show, and particularly bad mood Blackmore with the fact that he started playing before dark with cameras on stage, became famous for being explosive: guitarist destroyed a camera up with your guitar and not content, exploded an amplifier. Silhouette of guitar player in front of the flames of the amplifier is one of the most powerful scenes of the whole iconography of rock.

California Jam

Stormbringer is the ninth studio album by Deep Purple, released in November 1974. On this album, the soul and funk elements that were only hinted at on Burn are much more prominent.Ritchie Blackmore would leave after the making of and touring this album, returning later during the recording of the Perfect Strangers album. The third formation of Deep Purple would end a year after California Jam , on April 7, 1975 , a week before Blackmore turned thirty years old. It was the tour 's launch Stormbringer album in Europe . With more rocking funk, disco displeased enough to Blackmore . He already had some ideas in my head , and upon leaving had formed a new band : the Rainbow . Left the group the dilemma between continuing without Blackmore - the creator of all the riffs that made the famous Deep Purple - or leave for another , taking advantage of the group was one of the most profitable in all of rock history .

Decided to continue inviting guitarist Tommy Bolin , the first American to join the group. With this training ( Mark IV ) , record the disc Come Taste the Band originally released in October 1975. Come Taste The Band It is the only Deep Purple studio record featuring Tommy Bolin, who replaced Ritchie Blackmore on guitar and is also the final of three albums to feature Glenn Hughes on bass and David Coverdale on lead vocals before he later left to form Whitesnake. The tour of Come Taste The Band is complicated somewhat due to problems with drugs Bolin and Hughes .

Tragedy and mayhem struck the Deep Purple tour December 4 in Jakarta, Indonesia, when one of the group’s road crew, Patsy Collins, a well-loved celebrity of the British rock scene and guitarist Tommy Bolin’s bodyguard, was killed in a six-story fall down a service elevator shaft at the band’s hotel. Deep Purple played to an estimated 150,000 Indonesians in two shows at the outdoor Senyan Sports Stadium [now Gelora Bung Karno Stadium] as part of their first tour since adding Bolin to the band. In several shows , as recorded in the Last Concert in Japan , Bolin could not play because his arm was numb from drugs . Talented kids , twenty -somethings, to get into a money making machine in the entertainment industry , are in serious danger of losing their sense of proportion . This happened at the time.

Deep Purple Mark IV

Bolin had two aggravating factors : insecurity and low self -esteem . All this despite having recorded beautiful solo albums , be considered a guitar genius and magicians have played with jazz drummer Billy Cobham as . Bolin could not bear to be compared by fans charismatic predecessors had in large groups of rock . Deep Purple was the second time he replaced a great guitarist - formerly , had touched the James Gang . In Deep Purple , he came to discuss with the audience a few times during presentations .

The End of Deep Purple
At the end of the show March 15, 1976 , in Liverpool , David Coverdale vents with Lord : there was no mood to continue with Deep Purple . Lord pours out back, there was another Deep Purple to continue. Just so, in a climate of confidence, the band created eight years before and came to appear in Guinness World Records as the loudest in the world. Eight months later , Bolin died of a drug overdose at the Resort Hotel Miami , after a presentation . And for eight years Deep Purple would remain off the air .

During this period , the band members would do their own careers and would plant the foundations for the future developments of Deep Purple . By order of output :

• Ian Gillan - After a brief period of seclusion that sold bikes and tried to have a hotel , was rescued for the stage by Roger Glover and felt excited enough to create his own band , the Ian Gillan Band . In a kind of jazz-rock , followed by the early '80s . In 1982 , the band dissolved , the following year to record an album with Black Sabbath : Born Again . 

• Roger Glover - initially remained near Purple Records and was the one who had more contact with all branches of the gigantic genealogy Deep Purple . Two years later, he joined the same stage of England 's best musicians ( many of them members or former members of Deep Purple , and his colleagues in other bands ) , the musical Butterfly Ball . It was the first public appearance after the end Ian Gillan of Deep Purple , replacing Ronnie James Dio ( who sang in Blackmore's Rainbow and Black Sabbath would by then ) . Produced other bands , recorded two solo albums and returned to play bass in Blackmore's Rainbow .
  

• Ritchie Blackmore - With the Rainbow , had one of the bands most successful hard rock of the late '70s and early '80s , pointing the spotlight on musicians like Joe Lynn Turner, Don Airey and who years later would participate Deep Purple . Roger Glover came to play with him .

• David Coverdale - After two solo albums , formed Whitesnake and stormed the charts FM 80 . In the band , he played with Jon Lord and Ian Paice . From time to time , to meet the Whitesnake tour .
  

• Jon Lord - Had an interesting solo career , mixing his various musical influences ( classical, rock and jazz ) . Composed film soundtracks with Tony Ashton and the two joined Paice to Paice , Ashton and Lord project. Later , he joined Coverdale in Whitesnake . After battling cancer , Lord died on 16 July 2012.

• Ian Paice - He played with many musicians , including Gary Moore , along with Paice , Ashton and Lord , and Whitesnake.
  

• Glenn Hughes - Trapeze gathered , recorded several solo albums , played with Gary Moore and Pat Thrall , fought with himself to get rid of drugs , sang on Black Sabbath and more recently recorded two albums with fellow ex - Deep Purple Joe Lynn Turner : Hughes - Turner Project ( HTP ) . 

Deep Purple Mark II comeback !

The resumption of Deep Purple
In 1984 , it announced the return of Deep Purple with its most successful training [Mark II] , with Gillan , Blackmore , Paice , Lord and Glover . The first album of new material since 1975 's launched called Perfect Strangers Perfect Strangers is the eleventh studio album by Deep Purple, released in September 1984. It represents the first album recorded by the reformed, the most successful and popular, Mark II line-up. It was the first Deep Purple studio album in nine years, and the first with the Mk II lineup for eleven years, the last being Who Do We Think We Are in 1973. Which was followed by The House of Blue Light, 1987.

The House of Blue Light is the twelfth studio album by Deep Purple, released in 1987. It is the second recording by the re-formed Mark II lineup. Tours of these two albums, live out the Nobody's Perfect , released in 1988 . However, it failed to match the success of their previous release, Perfect Strangers. The album reached # 34 in the States. Two singles were released from The House Of Blue Light: 'Call of the Wild' and 'Bad Attitude'. Both reached #14 on Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks.

In 1989 , Ian Gillan decided to leave the band again , and the replacement vocalist Joe Lynn Turner [ex - Rainbow] . With this new lineup [Mark V] , the band went on a successful tour which was very well praised by fans . Although the new album with Turner , Slaves and Masters , was commercially weak, his tour was not . Slaves and Masters is the thirteenth studio album by Deep Purple, and was released on 5 October 1990. Despite generally weak album sales, Deep Purple had a relatively successful tour in support of Slaves and Masters in 1991, especially for the band's European leg.
 

Deep Purple Mark V

Turner was still a member of the group when they began recording their next album in 1992, but under duress from management, Deep Purple ultimately decided to bring back Ian Gillan to the lineup for their 1993 studio album The Battle Rages On... The shows were marked by clean band performances and excellent stage presence of vocalist Joe Lynn Turner . Remember that on this tour , Deep Purple came to Brazil for the first time . The set list contained the classic era of Coverdale , and many that the band had not played in a while .

The band finished the tour in late 1991 and in April 1992 , starts recording what would become the album The Battle Rages on, is the fourteenth studio album. ... This album was originally recorded and written with Joe Lynn Turner still in the band , but in through September 1992, Joe Lyn Turner is fired from the group and replacement Ian Gillan , ending what remained of the Battle Rages on. .. , rewriting it with his voice again. The album was released in 1993. It is the last album recorded with the band's classic Mk II line-up reunited for a second time (the first reunion being 1984's Perfect Strangers). Since Ian Gillan returned to the band in late 1992, he reworked much of the material already existing for the album. Ritchie Blackmore became infuriated at the non-melodic elements and quit during the tour in 1993, during the 17 November show in Helsinki, Finland. American guitarist Joe Satriani joined Deep Purple as a temporary replacement for the duration of the tour.

Deep Purple Mark VI

In December 1993 , following the departure of Ritchie Blackmore due to constant conflicts over musical style to be followed , the guitar-hero Joe Satriani was asked to join the band and  participate in the international tour in Japan with the success of the shows [Mark VI] , Satriani was invited by other members to remain as member of it , but declined , more concerned with his solo career and with the contract signed for an album with Sony . Before that , however, still came to join the European tour as guitarist in 1994 , making his last show with the band in July in Austria . After this concert , Satriani left from Deep Purple and gave way to guitarist Steve Morse [Mark VII] , who had already integrated the bands Dixie Dregs and Kansas .

The band is revitalized and back with Purpendicular , 1996 , bringing new elements , but appreciating the challenges between guitar and organ that made the musical basis of the style of Deep Purple. Purpendicular is the fifteenth studio album was Released in 1996, it is their first album with Steve Morse. Follows the reasonable Abandon in 1998 . 

Deep Purple Mark VII

Abandon is the sixteenth studio album by Deep Purple released in the Spring of 1998. It was Deep Purple's second album with Steve Morse on guitar and the last one with founding member Jon Lord. The album was followed by a successful 1998/1999 world tour which brought Deep Purple to Australia for the first time in 15 years. In 1999 a live album and DVD Total Abandon: Australia '99 recorded in Melbourne on 20 April 1999 was released.

In 2002 , keyboardist Jon Lord decided to leave the road , and the replacement Don Airey [Mark VIII] , a keyboard player who has been through several hard rock bands , among them the Rainbow , Ritchie Blackmore and Whitesnake , David Coverdale , and Ozzy Osbourne . With Airey , Gillan , Morse , Glover and Paice are launched Bananas album, records in 2003.

Deep Purple Mark VIII

This is the first Deep Purple album to feature Don Airey on the keyboards, replacing founder member Jon Lord. The album was recorded in Los Angeles during January and February 2003. It is also notable as being the only Deep Purple album that features Ian Gillan being backed by vocals other than his own, with the song "Haunted" featuring a female backing singer, Beth Hart.

In 2005 Deep Purple immediately released album Rapture of the Deep. Like Bananas, the album generally received positive reviews from critics. It is the fourth studio album from Deep Purple since Steve Morse joined the band in 1994. It is also the second album to feature veteran keyboardist Don Airey.

In 2012 , Deep Purple has announced that it will go into production of a new studio album process , the first since 2005.

On July 16, 2012 , keyboardist Jon Lord dies . He struggled for almost a year against pancreatic cancer . Several renowned musicians expressed their sorrow about the incident, such as Geezer Butler , David Coverdale , Lars Ulrich , Tony Iommi , Mike Portnoy , Axl Rose , Slash , Bill Ward , Jordan Rudes , and his former band , Deep Purple 's own .

The best riff in rock history [2008]
In April 2008, students of the London Tech Music School, one of the most prestigious music schools in Britain and where they came from members of bands like Radiohead, The Kinks and The Cure, chose the classic "Smoke on the Water" , one of the biggest hits of the band, as the greatest riff of all time in rock history, in front of other classics such as "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana, "My Generation" of the Who, "Born To Be Wild" and Steppenwolf's "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath.  

Deep Purple New Album : Now What?!

NOW What?! is the 19th studio album by Deep Purple. It was released on 26 April 2013 and produced by Bob Ezrin. A dedicated official web site was also created by the band to post updates about the album. It is the band's first studio album in over seven years; Deep Purple's previous studio album, Rapture of the Deep, was released in late 2005.


Two songs in Now What?! album are dedicated to Deep Purple founding member Jon Lord, who died in July 2012 . "Uncommon Man" and "Above and Beyond", which includes the lyrics "Souls having touched are forever entwined". "Uncommon Man" is partly inspired by the classical composition "Fanfare for the Common Man", and features a synthesizer-generated fanfare theme composed by Don Airey. All songs written and composed by Don Airey, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Steve Morse, Ian Paice. NOW What?! sold over 4,000 copies in its first week in the US.

 

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