These styles were explored more on the band's next album, "Stormbringer", released later the same year. The singing harmonies from Coverdale and Hughes had something of a blues and funk style to them.
Mark III's first album, "Burn", released in 1974, was successful and seemed to point a positive picture for the band's future without Gillan or Glover. In fact, since Hughes was hired first, the band considered performing as a 4-piece from then on, with Hughes singing full-time as well as playing bass. Glenn Hughes also had singing talent so it was decided he would act as lead singer on some of the band's songs too. Marks III and IV (1973 - 1976) ĭavid Coverdale and Glenn Hughes were hired to replace Ian Gillan and Roger Glover. Roger Glover left shortly after, also because of arguing with Blackmore. He was also arguing with Ritchie Blackmore. Ian Gillan left the band that year as he did not like the band's touring and recording schedule, because at the time he wanted a break. Mark II's last album was "Who Do We Think We Are" in 1973, and it featured another hit song for the band, "Woman from Tokyo". "Machine Head", released in 1972, was another success and featured several other popular songs like "Highway Star" and "Space Truckin'". An incident at a Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention concert would inspire the band to write their most popular song, "Smoke on the Water" which ended up on the album. Just weeks later, the band started working on the next album, which would become "Machine Head".
The band followed "In Rock" up with "Fireball" in 1971, which did show hints of creative progressive rock but was still as heavy as the last album. Critics and fans were pleased with new singer Ian Gillan's high pitched singing and screaming, and the album has since been considered a classic of the time, along with Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" and Led Zeppelin's "Led Zeppelin II". The album itself had popular songs such as "Speed King" "Child in Time" and "Bloodsucker" (which was later re-recorded by the band in 1998). The famous album cover shows the band members' faces engraved into Mount Rushmore. The band eventually got back to their plans of playing hard rock, and released "Deep Purple in Rock" in 1970, which became a big success. Whilst the band did perform as an orchestra (with new singer Ian Gillan writing lyrics) gaining the band some publicity, Gillan and Blackmore were not happy about the band being associated with orchestras, and were firm about Deep Purple being a hard rock band, though Jon Lord would write another orchestral piece for the band. Jon Lord used to play in orchestras, and at this time, wanted to go back to them and base the Deep Purple sound around that. The band found a new singer called Ian Gillan and a new bass player called Roger Glover, forming Mark II. While Ian Paice agreed to the change, they decided Evans and Simper would not fit this new style, and were let go from the band. Eventually, Blackmore and Lord decided to change the style of music the band would play from soft progressive rock to hard rock. They released a fairly popular single called "Hush", thought to be radio friendly in America, but, apart from that, did not have any success. This band lineup, known as "Mark I", released three albums, called "Shades of Deep Purple" (1968), "The Book of Taliesyn" (1968) and a self-titled (1969). They renamed the band "Deep Purple" after a song Blackmore's mother liked, disliking the name "Roundabout". Blackmore and Lord wanted to continue, and so finished putting the band together themselves, with singer Rod Evans, bass player Nick Simper, and drummer Ian Paice. Curtis behaved in a disorderly way, and so was fired from his own project. The first musicians to be hired were guitar player Ritchie Blackmore and keyboard player Jon Lord. Because of this format, the band was called Roundabout. In 1967, a drummer called Chris Curtis was putting a new band together, where members would only be part of it when it suited them (or would "get on and off"). History Forming, and Mark I (1967 - 1969)
1.6 Revival with Steve Morse and Jon Lord's retirement (Marks VII and VIII) (1994 - present).1.5 Mark II reformations and Marks V and VI (1984 - 1994).
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