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A hard rock band formed in 1968 that featured (in the Mk II lineup) Ian Gillan on vocals, Ritchie Blackmore on guitar, John Lord on keyboards, Roger Glover on bass, and Ian Paice on drums. Deep Purple is known best for their song "Smoke on the Water" from the Machine Head album. Other popular Deep Purple songs are "Hush", "Fireball", "Black Night", "Highway Star", "Woman from Tokyo", and "Perfect Strangers" just to name a few. Deep Purple are often considered the pioneers of Heavy Metal music.
Deep Purple is one of the few underrated classic hard rock bands that still churn out great sounding music that doesn't have that God awful "modern rock" or "nu-metal" sound.
by signull May 27, 2006
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