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 Everything began when John Lord gave up studying dramatic arts in the early sixties to become a musician. After spending several unproductive years, he formed Deep Purple. First, he found Nick Simper (bass guitar); then, Ritchie Blackmore (lead guitar); later, Ian Paice (drums, and Blackmore's friend) and Rod Evans (vocals). Jon Lord played the keyboard. The first album to come out was Shades of Deep Purple, which was on sale in September 1968, even though they had already been successful with their single "Hush" in the States. Harvest, a British record company, anticipated the group's potential and offer them a juicy contract, which they, of course, signed. Some long-playing records follow Shades of Deep Purple: The Book of Taliesyn (issued in July 1969), Deep Purple (November 1969), and so on; but Deep Purple in Rock (June 1970), the players of which were Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Guillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice and Jon Lord, was undoubtedly their best work. Their track "Child in Time", a very gripping song, is included here. It starts very slowly, and then goes up step by step until it reaches its higher point. In December 1972, they published Made in Japan (double album), which they recorded in the concerts that they performed in Osaka and Tokyo in August 1972. This long-player does not contain new tracks, but it compiles their best songs: "Child in Time", "Highway Star", "Smoke on the Water", "Lazy", "Space Trakin'", and so forth. The last four belong to the LP Machine Head (March 1972). Ian Guillan abandoned Deep Purple because he thought there was no way of making any progress with the band, since they had fallen into monotony. Soon after, Roger Glover also left the group. So as to fill the two vancancies, Glenn Hughes (bass guitar and singer) and David Coverdale (singer) joined Deep Purple. The new formation produced some quality tracks, such as "Mistreated" and "Burn", both of them belonging to the album Burn (February 1974). After the failure of their LP Stormbringer (December 1974), Blackmore, the key figure of Deep Purple, went off to form a new band: Rainbow. Ronnie James Dio (singer) became one of the pillars of the group, together with Blackmore, but this is another story. Blackmore had quit, and Deep Purple had not anything else to say, and their album Come and Taste the Band (November 1975) confirms it. Deep Purple was finished, but the spirit of their music would continue, mainly with Ritchie Blackmore and his group Rainbow. Miquel Molina i Diez miquel@polseguera.com 2001 Polseguera.com
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