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''Nobody gonna beat my car, gonna break the speed of sound"''|"Highway Star"}}

 

 

The group is also known for their [[Revolving Door Band|constantly rotating line-up]]; the group has its roots in a proposed rock band called Roundabout, so named because musicians would get "on and off" the group as they pleased. This didn't quite work out, and while the group that eventually became Deep Purple is notable for its endless membership changes, each succesive group has been more or less a cohesive unit.

 

A list of the various line-ups, or "[[Fan Nickname|marks]]", can be found [[wikipedia:List of Deep Purple band members|here]].

Mark II<ref>Ian Gillan and Roger Glover replaced Evans and Simper on vocals and bass, respectively; Blackmore, Lord, and Paice retained their posts. Reunited in 1984, and save for the Mark V period lasted until 1993.</ref>

 

* ''Fireball'' (1971)

* ''Machine Head'' (1972)

 

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* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: Many of their album (and song) titles, with ''Purpendicular'' and ''Abandon'' <ref>i.e., A Band On</ref> being two prominent examples.

* [[Album Title Drop]]: "Listen, Learn, Read On" from ''The Book of Taliesyn''.

* [[Car Song]]: "Highway Star".

* [[Contemptible Cover]]: It doesn't help that the cover of their third (self-titled) album is a painting by Hieronymous Bosch.

* [[Creator Breakdown]]: See [[Meaningful Name]] below. Besides that, Mark IV, where Tommy Bolin's drug problems finally made the band's life unbearable enough for Lord and Paice (the two remaining original members at that point) to decide to disband.

* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]: Ian Gillan.

* [[Downer Ending]]: Occurs in "Strange Kind Of Woman"...

I won my woman just before she died }}

* [[Epic Instrumental Opener]]: "Lazy." Nearly four and a half minutes of organ solo before the actual song starts. (And the rest of the song is only three minutes long!)

** And prefiguring "Lazy", we have "April" from their third, self-titled album, of which only the final third has vocals.

** Their cover of Ike and Tina Turner's "River Deep, Mountain High" has a four-minute intro.

* [[Genre Roulette]]: While they are generally considered a [[Hard Rock]] band, their music incorporates multiple influences. In addition, each Mark has its signature take on rock (with Mark I being more of a [[Progressive Rock]] bent, Mark II on the harder rock/metal part, Mark III known for funk influences, and so on).

* [[Great Balls of Fire]]: At the California Jam, where the group had to exit by helicopter to avoid arrest by fire marshals and ABC executives.

* [[Incendiary Exponent]]: Both ''Fireball'' and ''Burn'' evoke this, and then there's the subject of "Smoke on the Water".

* [[In Name Only]]: An infamous faux-reunion in 1980 with Rod Evans as the only member to have had anything to do with Deep Purple; fortunately they were given a cease-and-desist order.

* [[Instrumentals]]: "And the Address...", "Wring That Neck", "A 200", "Contact Lost".

* [[Knight Templar Parent]]: The father in "Anyone's Daughter".

* [[Long Runner Lineup]]: Mark II barely makes it as a Type V, totaling 10 years and two months.

** The albums ''Who Do We Think We Are'' (last album before Mark II's dissolution and the formation of Mark III) and ''The Battle Rages On'' (Mark II's last album, period) reflect the [[Creative Differences]] that had affected the band, primarily between Blackmore and Gillan.

* [[Metal Scream]]: Ian Gillan in ''Child in Time''.

* [[Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness]]: Ranges from 2 ("Anyone's Daughter") to 7 ("Fireball"), but rarely goes lower than 5.

* [[Nice Hat]]: Roger Glover. In recent years he's taken to a bandana, though. Ritchie Blackmore also sported a top hat in the mid-70s, as seen on the cover of ''Burn''.

* [[Recycled Lyrics]]: "hard lovin' man" from "Bloodsucker", and reappearing on the track of the same name later on the same album.

** Lampshaded in the song Hungry Daze from their 1984 album Perfect Strangers, which recycles the first line of Smoke On The Water

* [[Revolving Door Band]]

* [[Rockers Smash Guitars]]: California Jam, 1974; Blackmore threw guitars into the audience and more infamously smashed a network video camera with his guitar.

* [[Scatting]]

* [[Self-Titled Album]]: Notably, their third one instead of the more typical debut album (which, however, still contained the band name).

** And then there's [[Engine Sentai Go-onger|Sosuke Esumi]], Speed King, whose partner Speedor is a Highway Star.

* [[Show, Don't Tell]]: "Highway Star" counts. It was written ''as a response'' to an interviewer's question regarding how the band writes their songs.

* [[Song of Song Titles]]: Sort of. The first song Gillan ever wrote with Deep Purple was "Speed King", where he just quoted bits of lyrics from other rock 'n roll tunes (by [[Little Richard]], [[Elvis Presley]] and so on) - apparently only the chorus is 100% his.

* [[Space Trucker]]: "Space Truckin'". Partly the [[Trope Namer]], as it seems.

* [[Stop and Go]]: "Pictures of Home".

* [[A Storm Is Coming]]: "Stormbringer"

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