* 1951 – Joe Lynn Turner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Deep Purple, Rainbow, Fandango, Brazen Abbot, and Hughes Turner Project )

* 1951 – Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Deep Purple, Zephyr, and James Gang ) ( d. 1976 )

* 1945 – Ian Gillan, English singer-songwriter ( Deep Purple, Episode Six, and WhoCares )

* 1951 – Glenn Hughes, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer ( Finders Keepers, Trapeze, Deep Purple, and Black Country Communion )

* 1945 – Ritchie Blackmore, English guitarist and songwriter ( The Outlaws, Deep Purple, Rainbow, and Blackmore's Night )

* 1947 – Rod Evans, British musician ( Deep Purple and Captain Beyond )

* 1954 – Steve Morse, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Dixie Dregs, Deep Purple, Living Loud, Angelfire, Kansas, and Flying Colors )

Led Zeppelin have influenced hard rock and heavy metal bands such as Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Rush, Queen, and Megadeth as well as progressive metal bands like Tool and Dream Theater.

Other major pioneers of the genre had begun as blues-based psychedelic bands, including Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Judas Priest and UFO.

Their debut album was strongly influenced by British blues rock: an amalgam of sounds and styles from such rock bands as Cream, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple.

* April 14 – Ritchie Blackmore, English rock guitarist ( Deep Purple )

* August 19 – Ian Gillan, English rock singer ( Deep Purple )

* June 9 – Jon Lord, organist of Deep Purple, the " Lord of the Hammond organ "

The event is memorialized in the Deep Purple song " Smoke on the Water.

For example, Chris Curtis of Deep Purple fame was christened as Christopher Crummey.

The band drew artistic influence from many other British rock acts at the time, such as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who, Black Sabbath, Slade, Deep Purple and David Bowie.

Arkenstone was influenced by writers such as J. R. R. Tolkien and Ian Fleming, and grew up listening to bands like Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Deep Purple and Yes, as well as listening to classical music.

III and IV line-ups of Deep Purple, as well as briefly fronting Black Sabbath in the mid-1980s.

Hughes was recruited to replace Roger Glover as bassist in Deep Purple in 1973, though he considered himself a vocalist as opposed to a bassist.

The book, titled ' Deep Purple And Beyond: Scenes From The Life Of A Rock Star ', was co-written with author Joel McIver and featured contributions by Tony Iommi, David Coverdale, Ozzy Osbourne and Tom Morello, as well as a foreword by Lars Ulrich of Metallica.

* King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents: Deep Purple in Concert ( 1995 )

* 1975 Deep Purple Rises Over Japan ( performer )-re-issued on DVD " Phoenix Rising " in 2011

' Deep Purple ( BBC TV, interviewee )

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By April 1974, ELP were on top of the bill during the California Jam Festival, pushing co-stars Deep Purple to second billing.

Shortly before the end of the war (" When It Rains ..."), Gowron comes to Deep Space Nine to honor Martok by inducting him into the Order of Kahless, and then announces that he would be taking control of the Klingon forces from Martok because it was time for him to " take a more active role in the war ".

The Starfleet Engineering Corps ( also called the Starfleet Corps of Engineers ) is mentioned in several episodes in conjunction with projects such as hollowing out the underground laboratory complex inside the Regula I asteroid in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the design of the Yellowstone-class Runabout in the alternate timeline in the Star Trek: Voyager episode " Non Sequitur ", and devising a defense against the Breen energy-dampening weapon in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " When It Rains ..." As a result of these successes, Starfleet engineers have gained a reputation as the undisputed masters of technological adaptation and modification.

When David Coverdale was later hired as Deep Purple's lead vocalist, the two would ultimately share lead vocal duties in the band until their breakup in 1976.

* British — Ali Campbell: " Nothing Ever Changes ( Pierrot )", from Flying High ( 2009 ); David Bowie: Pierrot in Turquoise ( 1993 ; includes following songs from the film of the same title: " Threepenny Pierrot ", " Columbine ", " The Mirror ", " When I Live My Dream & 2 "); Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix: " Birthplace of Harlequin ", " Columbine Confused ", " Pierrot's Song of Positive Thinking ", and " Pierrot in the Roof Garden ", from The Entropy Tango and Gloriana Demo Sessions ( 2008 ); Petula Clark: " Pierrot pendu " (" Hanged Pierrot "), from Hello Mister Brown ( 1966 ); Placebo: " Pierrot the Clown ", from Meds ( 2006 ); Rick Wakeman: " The Dancing Pierrot ", from The Art in Music Trilogy ( 1999 ); Soft Machine: " Thank You Pierrot Lunaire ", from Volume Two ( 1969 ).

When the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad was built, the residents of Dresden moved to be near the railroad, and thus the town of Deep River was established in 1884.

When asked who first used feedback, Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore said, " Pete Townshend was definitely the first.

Deep Green / Orange / Purple / Murky Green / Red ( When combined with Aluminum in Rubies )/ Yellow / Brown

* Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: " When It Rains ..."

Obviously the name means “ aboriginal abyss ,” or in the terser German, Urgrund, and we have reason to believe it to be a translation of the Babylonian Tiamat, “ the Deep .”< p > The Chinese legend tells us that P ’ an-Ku ’ s bones changed to rocks ; his flesh to earth ; his marrow, teeth and nails to metals ; his hair to herbs and trees ; his veins to rivers ; his breath to wind ; and his four limbs became pillars marking the four corners of the world, — which is a Chinese version not only of the Norse myth of the Giant Ymir, but also of the Babylonian story of Tiamat .< p > Illustrations of P ’ an-Ku represent him in the company of supernatural animals that symbolize old age or immortality, viz., the tortoise and the crane ; sometimes also the dragon, the emblem of power, and the phoenix, the emblem of bliss .< p > When the earth had thus been shaped from the body of P ’ an-Ku, we are told that three great rivers successively governed the world: first the celestial, then the terrestrial, and finally the human sovereign.

When the Dominion captures Deep Space Nine at the start of the war, Kira remains aboard the station as liaison officer, as part of Bajor's non-aggression pact with the Dominion.

When " Deep South " first made its appearance in print " during the second third of the twentieth century " it originally applied to the states / areas of Mississippi, north Louisiana, southern parts of Alabama and Georgia, and northern Florida.

When asked about Mark Felt's claim to being Deep Throat, Gray told ABC's This Week that he was in " total shock, total disbelief ," noting, " It was like I was hit with a tremendous sledgehammer.

When Deep Throat wanted a meeting he would make special marks on page twenty of Woodward's copy of The New York Times ; he would circle the page number and draw clock hands to indicate the hour.

When in April 1984 Deep Purple reformed, Glover returned to his old band where he has remained for the last two-and-a-half decades.

When Obed and his followers were arrested, the sacrificial rites ceased and the Deep Ones retaliated.

When Deep Space Nine officers Julian Bashir and Kira Nerys visited the Mirror Universe, they sparked a rebellion among the Terran slaves led by the Mirror-Sisko and Mirror-O ' Brien.

When a damaged Cardassian ship shows up near Deep Space Nine, Sisko has it brought in and he and O ' Brien greet the passengers.

When the six months ended, they started regular gigging in Deep Ellum.

When " Deep Analysis " and " Adaptive Error Compensation " options are selected, the quality of the resulting DVD is improved.

When a UFO was shot down over Hanoi by US Marines, the surviving extraterrestrial was brought to Deep Throat, who executed it.

He is also mentioned in the songs " Whip It " by Lil Wayne, " Work It " by Missy Elliott, " Finale " by Young Money, A Tribe Called Quest's " 8 Million Stories ", Roots Manuva's " Snake Bite ", Ghostface Killah's " Black Jesus ", Akir's " Kunta Kinte ", " Too " by YG, Busta Rhymes's " Rhymes Galore ", Ice Cube's " No Vaseline ", Keymark's Pookey Marsum, The Coup's " My Favourite Mutiny ", Bloodhound Gang's " A Lapdance Is So Much Better When The Stripper Is Crying ", and Roll Deep's " Roll Deep Rally " which is featured on the soundtrack for the 2010 film Shank.

When Andy returned from rehab, the band started up again and contributed " With Yo ' Heart ( Not Yo ' Hands )" and " Stars-n-You " to the Deep Six compilation by C / Z Records.

The Lyke Wake Dirge was also invoked in Antonia Forest's 1959 novel End of Term and Diana Wynne Jones's novel Deep Secret, When Will There Be Good News?