Deep Purple
Biography
Deep Purple is a British hard rock band founded in 1968 in Hertford. A pioneer of the genre alongside Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they laid the foundations of hard rock and heavy metal with Jon Lord's organ and Ritchie Blackmore's guitar. Albums like In Rock, Machine Head and its immortal riff Smoke on the Water made them a legend. Marked by many line-up changes, the band remains active and revered more than fifty years after its debut.