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Events in St.-Petersburg
Deep Purple in Russia
19.10.2006 - Moscow (Olimpyiskiy Stadium)
20.10. 2006 - St. Petersburg (Ledoviy Palace)
Ian Gillan - Vocals
Roger Glover - Bass
Ian Paice - Drums
Steve Morse - Guitar
Don Airey - Keyboard
Deep Purple survived a seemingly endless series of lineup changes and a dramatic mid-career shift from grandiose progressive rock to ear-shattering heavy metal to emerge as a true institution of the British hard rock community.
Their revolving-door roster launched the careers of performers including Ritchie Blackmore, David Coverdale, and Ian Gillan. Deep Purple was formed in Hertford, England, in 1968
Deep Purple, one of the biggest bands of all the times of the heavy metal, of British metal and rock (that has sold more than 100 million discs all over the world). Deep Purple survived an endless series of changes in its formation and a draft in the middle of its career of the progressive rocks the heavy metal, transforming in a real institution of the culture of the hard British rock.
With more than thirty years of career, Deep Purple lives through a new musical renaissance. To the historical members, singer Ian Gillan, the bassist Roger Glover and the drummer Ian Paice, now there joined talents of the guitarist Steve Morse and the keyboardist Don Airey. With them, this new embodiment of Deep Purple made at the end of 2005 the album "Rapture of the Deep ".
Born at the beginning of the seventies, Deep Purple is one of the props of the hard British rock and one of the regarding inevitable when one speaks about the big groups of the history of the rock. Along with Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep and Black Sabbath, established the parameters of a new genre named Hard Rock, combining, like never earlier, powerful and dense riffs with memorable melodies.
During decades Deep Purple dominated the scene of the international rock with albums extraordinary as "Deep Purple in Rock", "Fireball" and "Machine Head ". In addition to shaking the rankings, Purple was one of the first groups of rock that combined these rhythms with elements of the classical music. The result was "It coordinated for Group and Orchestra ", released along with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in September, 1969, in the legendary theater Royal Albert Entrance hall.
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