Saturday, 19 March 2016

Deep Purple: British Music Icon

From Indonesia, we move on to United Kingdom. Here, the music industry is more powerful with larger and greater competition. Even Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia music are influenced with United Kingdom music industry. In this entry, we will discuss about the one of the British bands who influenced rock bands such as Metallica and Bon Jovi. One main attraction of this band is the keyboard used which is different and unique. Yes, we are talking about Deep Purple here. Started as a progressive rock band, this band turned to the heavier sound in 1970. Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath were labelled as the globe's loudest band. 100 million albums were sold by them. These shows how powerful and influenced the rock band can be.

HEAVY ROCK...Deep Purple music is more into heavy rock and their album sold well. Photo taken from https://darkerthanblue.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/deeppurple.jpg
 

Speaking of Deep Purple lineup, they have various lineup due to various change of members. However, their most successful lineup would be Ian Gillan (vocals), Jon Lord (organ), Roger Glover (bass), Ian Paice (drums), and Ritchie Blackmore (guitar). These lineup together produced a song, Perfect Stranger which is one of the hit Deep Purple song. They even made a tour from Australia to North America and then to Europe.

Until now, they still go for a tour to entertain their fans. They sold  more than 150,000 tickets in France. This shows that they still have their influences among their fans. According to Planet Rock listeners, Deep Purple's Rapture of the Deep Tour was voted number 6 concert tour of the year in all music genre in 2007. They even managed to appear for the 1st time at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia.

In conclusion, we can see that Deep Purple has influenced many bands and their influences are still strong. This can be seen on their concert tour and their album selling. Together with Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, they sold 100 million album worldwide.

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