Biography

Deep Purple's most enduring hit, the AOR staple "Smoke on the Water" (featured on the multi-platinum classic Machine Head) reached the U.S. Top Five in mid-1972 and positioned Deep Purple among rock's elite. The group survived a seemingly endless series of lineup changes and a dramatic mid-career shift from grandiose progressive rock to ear-shattering heavy metal to emerge as a true institution of the British hard rock community; once credited in the Guinness Book of World Records as the globe's loudest band, their revolving-door roster launched the careers of performers including Ritchie Blackmore, David Coverdale, and Ian Gillan. ~ Jason Ankeny & Greg Prato

Top Tracks

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• A Touch Away

• Anyone's Daughter

• Bad Attitude

• Beethoven

• Bird Has Flown

• Black Night

• Blind

• Burn

• Child In Time

• Concerto For The Group And Orchestra, Movement 1

• Dead Or Alive

• Dealer

• Doing It Tonight

• Fire In The Basement

• Fireball

• Flight Of The Rat

• Gettin' Tighter

• Gettin' Tighter [us A-side/italian B-side]

• Happiness (prelude)/i'm So Glad

• Hard Road (wring That Neck)

• Help

• Hey Joe

• Highway Star

• Hush

• Kentucky Woman

• Knocking At Your Back Door

• Lady Double Dealer

• Lady Luck

• Lalena

• Lazy

• Lazy & Drum Solo

• Lick It Up

• Love's Bringing Me Down

• Mandrake Root

• Might Just Take Your Life

• Mistreated

• Never A Word

• Perfect Strangers

• Pictures Of Home

• Rat Bat Blue

• River Deep Mountain High

• River Deep, Mountain High

• Rolling With My Baby

• Shadows

• Since You Been Gone

• Smoke On The Water

• Smoke On The Water [live 1987 Oslo, Norway]

• Smoke On The Water [us Studio A-side Edit]

• Smoke On The Water Medley: Space Truckin'

• Smoke On The Water/georgia On My Mind

• Solitaire

• Space Truckin'

• Space Truckin'

• Speed King

• Stone Cold

• Stormbringer

• Strange Kind Of Woman

• Super Trouper

• Ted The Mechanic

• The Aviator

• The Battle Rages On

• The Bird Has Flown

• The Mule

• The Unwritten Law

• Under The Gun

• Walk On

• Woman From Tokyo

• Wright That Neck

• Wring That Neck

Discography

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• Live at Montreux 2006

  Eagle Rock

  2007

• Bananas

  EMI

  2003

• In Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra

  Spitfire Records

  2000

• Abandon

  CMC International

  1998

• Live at the Olympia '96

  EMI Music Distribution

  1997

• Purpendicular

  BMG / RCA Victor Europe

  1996

• Come Hell or High Water

  Varese

  1994

• The Battle Rages On...

  Giant

  1992

• Slaves and Masters

  BMG Special Products

  1990

• The House of Blue Light

  Universal Special Products

  1987

• Live in London 1974

  EMI Music Distribution

  1982

• Last Concert in Japan

  WEA International

  1977

• Purple People

  Phantom Import Distribution / Purple / Purple Records Ltd. (UK)

  1973

• Machine Head

  Warner Bros.

  1972

• Deep Purple [1969]

  Victor Entertainment

  1969

• Concerto for Group and Orchestra

  Tetragrammaton

  1969

• The Book of Taliesyn

  Spitfire Records

  1968