36. Deep Purple

 

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This heavy rock band with an ever changing line up featuring the core members Ritchie Blackmore; John Lord & Ian Paice has featured the likes of Ian Gillan & David Coverdale as vocalists.

 

ALL MUSIC GUIDE BIOGRAPHY

 

Key Studio Album: Machine Head (1972)

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Key Compiliations: The Very Best Of Deep Purple (2000)

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Career Defining Song:

Smoke On The Water (1973 USA#4; 1977 UK#21)

Some Other Key Songs:

 

Hush (1968 USA#4; 1988 Re-recording UK#62)

 

Black Night (1970 UK#2 USA#66)

 

Highway Star (1972)

 

Burn (1974)

 

Were any of you fans of this progressive rock band or did you prefer the likes of Zeppelin & Sabbath?

I had a very diverse love of music in the 70's whereby I liked Deep Purple, Sabbath,Zeppelin & Genesis on the one hand and T Rex, ELO & Bowie on the other.

 

A lot of my friends either liked one or the other, but to me they missed out restricting their musical tastes.

 

I loved Smoke on the water, Hush, Black Night, Fireball, Strange kind of Woman.

i likes what i likes regardless of who produces what.... so i see no conflict between liking them

 

yeah i liked them, but im not a big 'fan'...

Was a much bigger fan of the Deep Purple spin off groups Rainbow (one of my 3 fave rock groups ever) and Whitesnake, I liked Deep Purple but they never made the impact on me that Rainbow and Whitesnake did

 

Fave song is Mistreated and Woman From Tokyo