Almost inevitably Blackmore decided that he didn’t like it, and in early 1975 stomped off in a vague huff to form Rainbow.ĭeep Purple MkIV would see American Tommy Bolin replacing Blackmore, however by this time drugs started to play a bigger part in the band’s tale, and after one album and significant dependency problems for both Hughes and Bolin, Lord, Paice and Coverdale called it a day for Deep Purple. Of course, by this time Deep Purple had become one of the biggest bands on the planet, so Blackmore, Lord and Paice went about recruiting replacements for Glover and Gillan, with Glenn Hughes of Trapeze and relative unknown David Coverdale signing up to Deep Purple MkIII, which would prove to have more of a blues, soul and even funk influence. With an increase in volume, a vocalist with an operatic style, and a slightly more unkempt appearance, MkII would release a sequence of albums which saw them co-found what would become known as heavy metal.ĭespite huge commercial success, Deep Purple MkII succumbed to infighting, with Gillan and Blackmore seemingly deciding it was just too much hassle not to tear into each other, so by 1973, Gillan walked away from the band, and Glover was sacked for seemingly no better reason than he was Gillan’s mate.
While there was an initial foray into orchestral rock, Deep Purple MkII would reform the band’s sound to something much more dynamic and adrenaline pumping than the sometimes bloated psych-pop they had previously played. Evans and Simper were replaced by Episode Six members Ian Gillan and Roger Glover, thus forming the much loved Deep Purple MkII line up, and managing to snag themselves a couple of aspiring songwriters to boot. Part way through 1969, and utterly frustrated with their inability to match their initial success, Blackmore and Lord showed vocalist Rod Evans and bass player Nick Simper the door, while retaining the services of bespectacled drum walloper Ian Paice. With the virtuoso duo of big hairy organ punisher Jon Lord and scallop fret enthusiast Ritchie Blackmore as their musical backbone, they had a couple of great arrangers, but in those early days, no songwriters in their five piece line up. Originally starting out in 1968 as a heavy psychedelic band in the mould of Vanilla Fudge, they enjoyed a big hit in the USA with their debut single, and then struggled to match that commercial success. Perhaps this is because they are so frequently associated with one single song. Despite being one of the three great pillars of 70s hard rock and heavy metal, Deep Purple have not quite received the same level of retrospective love as either Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath in subsequent decades.
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