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Deep Purple is Rod Evans - Vocals Ritchie Blackmore - Guitar Nick Simper - Bass Ian Paice - Drums John Lord - Keyboards. The 5 members started the band "Deep Purple" in 1968, (Deep Purple - the name came from Ritchie's grandmothers favorite song.) The debut album was called "Shades Of Deep Purple", which included a cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Joe", Billy Joe Royal hit "Hush", the album hit #4 in the US, and not troubling UK chart-compilers one bit. Lengthy tours ensued as the group, all but ignored at home, steadfastly courted the burgeoning American concert circuit. "The Book Of Taliesyn" and "Deep Purple" albums also featured several excellent reworkings, notably "Kentucky Woman" (Neil Diamond) and "River Deep Mountain High" (Ike And Tina Turner). The lengthy intro section to "River Deep" was a dramatic work-out of the theme from the then recently released Stanley Kubrick sci-fi classic f...