‘Hallelujah’ was the first record not to feature singer Rod Evans he was replaced by Ian Gillan, and bass player Nick Simper also left, to be replaced by Roger Glover both new recruits came from Episode Six, a band with a not dissimilar musical vibe to Deep Purple. Ritchie Blackmore said at the time, “ need to have a commercial record in Britain”, and described the song as “an in-between sort of thing It’s classic Prog Rock and shows the influence of both classical music and the thoughtful approach that drove the band’s music at this point in their career. It made No.108 on the Billboard charts, yet again not enough people in the UK bought it and it failed to chart. In the summer of 1969 Purple released ‘Hallelujah’, their first record on EMI’s new progressive label, Harvest. We’ve included a version from the BBC’s Top Gear radio show, on which Deep Purple were regulars and it just proves how well they replicated their recorded sound. Purple’s second single was another cover, this time from the unlikely pen of Neil Diamond, ‘Kentucky Woman’ was included on The Book of Taliesyn that included covers of the Beatles’ ‘We Can Work it Out’ and also, ‘River Deep Mountain High’ – both ‘Kentucky Woman’ and ‘River Deep’ were hits on the Billboard chart, but once again, not in the UK.Įarly in 1969, the band recorded ‘Emmaretta’, named after Emmaretta Marks, a cast member of the musical Hair, and it became a single that reached #128 in America. What many of you may not know is that in September 1968 ‘Hush’ peaked at #4 on the Billboard chart… in the UK it was not even a hit. Where to start Deep Purple in 20 Songs? The band’s debut single of course, the brilliant cover of Joe South’s ‘Hush’, with Jon Lord’s trademark Hammond organ, taken from their debut album, Shades of Deep Purple. There were many great suggestions but ultimately ‘Burn’ the title track from the band’s 1974 album. Originally we picked 19 songs and asked you to tell us what you thought we should add as the 20th track. But, what if someone asked you to pick 20 songs that would give a non-believer a career retrospective of Deep Purple? It’s not their greatest hits, but a musical autobiography and here are our reasons for picking each track. They have produced a string of anthems, classics and even hits on the singles charts in the UK, the US and around the world. Their music has helped to define rock for six decades, with their music going from Prog to Hard rock, to more of an AOR sound during this time. There are very few bands with the pedigree of Deep Purple.
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