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Deep Purple is tagged as: classic rock, hard rock, rock, progressive rock, heavy metal

Deep Purple is an English rock band formed in Hertfordshire in 1968. Together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath they are considered to be heavy metal pioneers. Especially influential to heavy metal were Ian Gillan’s powerful screams and Ritchie Blackmore’s virtuoso 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 Orchest...
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Top 10 Deep Purple Songs
Smoke On The Water
Highway Star
Hush
Child In Time
Black Night
Fireball
Perfect Strangers
Space Truckin'
Speed King
Burn
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Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple
Shades of Deep Purple
Live At Rotterdam Ahoy - Disc 1 -
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Deepest Purple - The Very Best Of Deep Purple
In Rock
Perfect Strangers
Burn
Stormbringer
Fireball
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