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Deep Purple Tour Dates

City	Venue	Date		Tickets
Udine	Area Concerti Festival Majano	Wed	Jul 24 / 13	Find Tickets
Wroclaw	Hala Stulecia	Tue	Jul 30 / 13	Find Tickets
Wacken	Wacken Open Air Festival Grounds	Thu	Aug 01 / 13	Find Tickets
Aalborg	Skovdalen	Thu	Aug 08 / 13	Find Tickets
Colmar	Messegelande-festivaltheater	Tue	Aug 13 / 13	Find Tickets
Manchester	O2 Apollo Manchester	Sat	Oct 12 / 13	Find Tickets
Glasgow	Clyde Auditorium	Sun	Oct 13 / 13	Find Tickets
Birmingham	NIA Academy	Tue	Oct 15 / 13	Find Tickets
London	The Roundhouse	Wed	Oct 16 / 13	Find Tickets
London	The Roundhouse	Thu	Oct 17 / 13	Find Tickets
Paris	Zenith de Paris	Sun	Oct 20 / 13	Find Tickets

Deep Purple Biography

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Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although their musical approach changed over the years. Originally formed as progressive rock band, the band's sound shifted to hard rock in 1970. Deep Purple, together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, have been referred to as the "unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal in the early to mid-Seventies". They were listed in the 1975 ''Guinness Book of World Records'' as "the globe's loudest band" for a 1972 concert at London's Rainbow Theatre, and have sold over 100 million albums worldwide, including 7.5 million certified units in the US. The band has gone through many line-up changes and an eight-year hiatus (1976–1984). The 1968–1976 line-ups are commonly labelled Mark I, II, III and IV. Their second and most commercially successful line-up featured Ian Gillan (vocals), Jon Lord (organ), Roger Glover (bass), Ian Paice (drums), and Ritchie Blackmore (guitar). This line-up was active from 1969 to 1973, and was revived from 1984 to 1989, and again from 1992 to 1993. The band achieved more modest success in the intervening periods between 1968 and 1969 with the line-up including Rod Evans (vocals) and Nick Simper (bass, backing vocals), between 1974 and 1976 (Tommy Bolin replacing Blackmore in 1975) with the line-up including David Coverdale (vocals) and Glenn Hughes (bass, vocals), and between 1989 and 1992 with the line-up including Joe Lynn Turner (vocals). The current line-up (featuring Ian Gillan, and guitarist Steve Morse from 1994) follows much longer, although organist Jon Lord's retirement from the band in 2002 (being succeeded by Don Airey) left Ian Paice as the only original Deep Purple member still in the band. Deep Purple were ranked number 22 on VH1's ''Greatest Artists of Hard Rock'' programme and a British radio station Planet Rock poll ranked them 5th among the "most influential bands ever". At the 2011 ''Classic Rock'' Awards in London, they received the Innovator Award.

Wikipedia This entry is from Wikipedia, the user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. If you find the biography content factually incorrect, defamatory or highly offensive you can edit this article at Wikipedia.