In Rock World Tour
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The In Rock World Tour was a successful worldwide concert tour by British
hard rock
group Deep Purple
. The tour began in July 1970, after the release of their album In Rock
, and lasted 15 months, until September 1971. The band visited 3 continents (Europe
, North America
and Australia
), with dates in the UK, Germany
, France
, Norway
, Sweden
, Denmark
, Holland, Switzerland
, Austria
, Italy
, Iceland
, Luxembourg
, Canada
, USA and Australia
.
. The album became a worldwide hit, with hits like "Black Night
", "Into the Fire", "Speed King
" and "Child In Time
". "Child In Time
" was #2 in the list of "100 Greatest Rock Vocal Performances of All Time". It was also the band's first hard rock album. In Rock
put the band into the list of pioneers of hard rock
and heavy metal
, alongside Led Zeppelin
and Black Sabbath
. The album sold several million copies worldwide. Increasing popularity and commercial success resulted in a worldwide tour, including an Australia
n leg, as In Rock
charted #1 there.
Encores:
Football Stadium, UK and soon visited German
stadiums.
MK II's first USA leg followed, Purples headlined "National Pop&Blues festival". 25 August, Deep Purple made the USA premiere of Concerto for Group and Orchestra
with Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, at Los Angeles
's Hollywood Bowl
, in front of 15 000 people.
setlist for the show was:
They returned to Europe
in August, and played their first full tour of France
, including one show in Paris
's legendary Olympia
hall.
Scandinavia saw Purple shows after French
Tour, Live album was recorded at KB Hallen, Copenhagen
. This was the first Rock live for Metallica
's drummer Lars Ulrich
, in his age of 9. Lars remembers the show as one of the greatest live he has ever seen, and says that this show, and Ian Paice
's drumming influenced him to become a rock-drummer. Lars: "That was the famous gig where in a newspaper article the day after everybody talked about Deep Purple, I remember they played a lot of new songs, I was all of nine years old
After many European dates, the band headed to their first Australia
n Tour. Deep Purple first visited Australia as part of an groundbreaking, sell-out package tour with Free and Manfred Mann, supported by local Santana-inspired Latin-rock band Pirana. The tour played four states in as many days, breaking all previous attendance records for rock shows in Australia. It was an influential tour for the local scene, giving Aussie audiences their first direct experience of the heavy-rock style being pioneered by bands such as the headliners, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. Up to that time, fans had ben reliant on records, and on cover versions performed by local bands like The Dave Miller Set.
The tour played to capacity crowds for one night each in Perth and Adelaide on 16 and 17 May followed by two nights in Melbourne at the Festival Hall. The first Melbourne show on Saturday 18 May ran overtime by more than two hours, finishing after 1.00am. Over 5000 fans were turned away, so a second show on the Sunday 19 May was hastily arranged for the benefit of fans who missed the first performance. According to GO-SET, Deep Purple's first Melbourne performance was troubled by equipment problems, as was Free's set at the Sydney concert.
The following day the four groups played at a rapturously-received outdoor performance at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, attended by over 30,000 people. Segments of the concert were filmed by the ABC's GTK, and the tour received extensive coverage in the GO-SET edition of 22 May, with reviews of both the Melbourne and Sydney shows by Ed Nimmervol and David Elfick.
On 18 June band played their first gig in Iceland
, Reykjavik
at Laugardalls Hall.
Another massive North America
n leg followed, then Europe again and then back to USA, including one show at NYC's Felt Forum (nowadays known as Madison Square Garden
). In Rock Tour ended in Chicago's Auditorium Theater.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...
group Deep Purple
Deep Purple
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members believe that their music cannot be categorised as belonging to any one genre...
. The tour began in July 1970, after the release of their album In Rock
Deep Purple in Rock
Deep Purple in Rock is an album by English rock band Deep Purple, released in June 1970. It was their fourth studio album and the first with the classic Mk II lineup. Rod Evans and Nick Simper had been fired in June 1969 and were replaced by Ian Gillan and Roger Glover, respectively...
, and lasted 15 months, until September 1971. The band visited 3 continents (Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
and Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
), with dates in the UK, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
, Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
, Holland, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, Iceland
Iceland
Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...
, Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, USA and Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
Pre-history
In July 1970, Deep Purple's MKII released In RockDeep Purple in Rock
Deep Purple in Rock is an album by English rock band Deep Purple, released in June 1970. It was their fourth studio album and the first with the classic Mk II lineup. Rod Evans and Nick Simper had been fired in June 1969 and were replaced by Ian Gillan and Roger Glover, respectively...
. The album became a worldwide hit, with hits like "Black Night
Black Night
"Black Night" is a song by British hard rock band Deep Purple, first released as a single in June 1970 and later included on the 25th Year Anniversary version of their 1970 album, In Rock. The song became a hit following its release, peaking at #2 on UK charts, and to this day remains Deep Purple's...
", "Into the Fire", "Speed King
Speed King
"Speed King" is a song by British hard rock band Deep Purple from their 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock. The song is one of the loudest from the album, and featured some of the band's greatest amount of improvisation in a studio recorded song, on both the original version and later live versions...
" and "Child In Time
Child in Time
"Child in Time" is a song by British hard rock band Deep Purple. Featured on their 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock, the song is 10 minutes and 18 seconds long.-History and characteristics:...
". "Child In Time
Child in Time
"Child in Time" is a song by British hard rock band Deep Purple. Featured on their 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock, the song is 10 minutes and 18 seconds long.-History and characteristics:...
" was #2 in the list of "100 Greatest Rock Vocal Performances of All Time". It was also the band's first hard rock album. In Rock
Deep Purple in Rock
Deep Purple in Rock is an album by English rock band Deep Purple, released in June 1970. It was their fourth studio album and the first with the classic Mk II lineup. Rod Evans and Nick Simper had been fired in June 1969 and were replaced by Ian Gillan and Roger Glover, respectively...
put the band into the list of pioneers of hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...
and heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
, alongside Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...
and Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath are an English heavy metal band, formed in Aston, Birmingham in 1969 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward . The band has since experienced multiple line-up changes, with Tony Iommi the only constant presence in the band through the years. A total of 22...
. The album sold several million copies worldwide. Increasing popularity and commercial success resulted in a worldwide tour, including an Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n leg, as In Rock
Deep Purple in Rock
Deep Purple in Rock is an album by English rock band Deep Purple, released in June 1970. It was their fourth studio album and the first with the classic Mk II lineup. Rod Evans and Nick Simper had been fired in June 1969 and were replaced by Ian Gillan and Roger Glover, respectively...
charted #1 there.
Germany, UK & France
- 10 7 1970 Reiterstadion Open Air Pop-Festival Aachen Germany
- 12 7 1970 Eissportstadion Euro-Pop 70 Munich Germany
- 31 7 1970 Mayfair Newcastle UK
- 1 8 1970 Château de Saint-Pons Progressive Music Festival France
- 8 8 1970 Stade Municipal Saint Raphael Pop Festival France
North American Leg
- 9 8 1970 National Jazz & Blues Festival USA
- 15 8 1970 Rodeo Arena Greeley USA
- 0 8 1970 Venue unknown Houston USA
- 0 8 1970 Venue unknown Albuquerque USA
- 0 8 1970 Venue unknown Salt Lake City USA
- 25 8 1970 Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles USA
- 28 8 1970 Jam Factory San Antonio USA
- 30 8 1970 Civic Centre Pasadena USA
UK & France
- 6 9 1970 Venue unknown Arras France
- 25 9 1970 Odeon Romford UK
- 26 9 1970 St Georges Hall Liverpool UK
- 2 10 1970 UWIST Cardiff UK
- 3 10 1970 University Southampton UK
- 6 10 1970 University Leeds UK
- 10 10 1970 University Sheffield UK
- 12 10 1970 Tiffanys Edinburgh UK
- 13 10 1970 Electric Garden Glasgow UK
- 14 10 1970 Concert Hall Aberdeen UK
- 15 10 1970 Caird Hall Dundee UK
- 16 10 1970 Top Rank Sunderland UK
- 17 10 1970 University Manchester UK
- 25 10 1970 Venue unknown Lyons France
- 26 10 1970 Venue unknown Chambéry France
- 27 10 1970 Venue unknown Sochaux France
- 28 10 1970 Venue unknown Mulhouse France
- 30 10 1970 Venue unknown Le Havre France
- 1 11 1970 Olympia Paris France
- 2 11 1970 Venue unknown Elbeuf France
- 3 11 1970 Venue unknown Brest France
- 6 11 1970 Winter Gardens Bournemouth UK
- 7 11 1970 Dreamland Margate UK
Scandinavian Countries
- 11 11 1970 Njårdhallen Oslo Norway
- 12 11 1970 Konserthus Stockholm Sweden
- 14 11 1970 KB Hallen Copenhagen Denmark
- 15 11 1970 Konserthuset Gothenburg Sweden
UK
- 21 11 1970 University College London UK
- 22 11 1970 Fairfield Hall Croydon UK
- 23 11 1970 Civic Hall Wolverhampton UK Cancelled
Germany & Holland
- 27 11 1970 Stadthalle Offenbach Germany
- 28 11 1970 Neue Universitat Heidelberg Germany
- 29 11 1970 Rheinhalle Düsseldorf Germany
- 30 11 1970 Mercatorhalle Duisburg Germany
- 1 12 1970 Messehalle Hannover Germany
- 2 12 1970 Planten Und Blomen Halle Hamburg Germany
- 3 12 1970 Planten Und Blomen Halle Hamburg Germany
- 4 12 1970 Munsterlandhalle Munster Germany
- 5 12 1970 Circus Krone-Bau Munich Germany
- 6 12 1970 Saarlandhalle Saarbrücken Germany
- 7 12 1970 Meistersingerhalle Nurnburg Germany
- 8 12 1970 Schutzenhalle Ludenscheid Germany
- 9 12 1970 Stadthalle Wuppertal Germany
- 11 12 1970 Huttenhalle Wurzburg Germany
- 12 12 1970 Sporthalle Stuttgart Germany
- 1 1 1971 Venue unknown Rotterdam Holland
- 2 1 1971 Rai Amsterdam Holland
UK
- 29 1 1971 Town Hall Leeds UK
- 30 1 1971 Philharmonic Hall Liverpool UK
- 1 2 1971 Royal Albert Hall London UK
- 5 2 1971 ABC Cinema Hull UK
- 6 2 1971 City Hall Sheffield UK
- 7 2 1971 Winter Gardens Bournemouth UK
- 8 2 1971 Guildhall Southampton UK
- 9 2 1971 Guildhall Portsmouth UK
- 12 2 1971 Town Hall Birmingham UK
- 13 2 1971 Colston Hall Bristol UK
- 14 2 1971 ABC Cinema Plymouth UK
- 19 2 1971 Belle Vue Kings Hall Manchester UK
- 20 2 1971 City Hall Newcastle UK
- 21 2 1971 Theatre Coventry UK
- 22 2 1971 The Orchid Purley UK
- 25 2 1971 De Montford Hall Leicester UK
- 27 2 1971 Big Apple Brighton UK
- 5 3 1971 Greens Playhouse Glasgow UK
- 6 3 1971 Empire Theatre Edinburgh UK
- 7 3 1971 Caird Hall Dundee UK
- 8 3 1971 Music Hall Aberdeen UK
Germany, Belgium, Scandinavia & Switzerland
- 7 4 1971 Wesser Ems Halle Oldenburg Germany
- 8 4 1971 Grugahalle Essen Germany
- 10 4 1971 Stadthalle Offenbach Germany
- 11 4 1971 Planten un Blomen Hamburg Germany
- 16 4 1971 Casino Montreux Switzerland
- 17 4 1971 Casino Montreux Switzerland
- 19 4 1971 Venue unknown Brussels Belgium
- 22 4 1971 Konserthus Stockholm Sweden
- 24 4 1971 Vejlby-Risskov Hallen Arhus Denmark
- 26 4 1971 Njårdhallen Oslo Norway
- 28 4 1971 Camden Arts Festival, Roundhouse London UK
Australian leg
- 6 5 1971 Beatty Park Aquatic Centre Perth Australia
- 7 5 1971 Festival Hall Melbourne Australia
- 8 5 1971 Apollo Stadium Adelaide Australia
- 9 5 1971 Randwick Racecourse Sydney Australia
- 9 5 1971 Festival Hall Melbourne Australia
European Leg (3)
- 21 5 1971 Deutschlandhalle Berlin Germany
- 26 5 1971 La Paleur Rome Italy
- 27 5 1971 Palasport Bologna Italy Two shows
- 29 5 1971 Eishalle Pop-Monster 1971 Zurich Switzerland
- 6 6 1971 Football Stadium "Union" Luxembourg Luxembourg
- 18 6 1971 Laugardalsholl Reykjavik Iceland
- 24 6 1971 Kinetic Circus Birmingham UK
- 25 6 1971 Mayfair Newcastle UK
North American Leg (2)
- 2 7 1971 St Lawrence Market Toronto Canada
- 3 7 1971 Gilligan's Buffalo New York USA
- 4 7 1971 Overton Park Memphis Tennessee USA
- 6 7 1971 Forum Hamilton Canada
- 7 7 1971 Wonderland Gardens London Canada
- 8 7 1971 Philharmonic Hall New York USA
- 9 7 1971 Spectrum Philadelphia USA
- 10 7 1971 Public Hall Cleveland Ohio USA
- 11 7 1971 Minneapolis Auditorium Minneapolis USA
- 14 7 1971 Venue unknown Milwaukee USA
- 16 7 1971 Venue unknown Pittsburgh USA
- 17 7 1971 Hara Arena Dayton Ohio USA
- 18 7 1971 Toledo Sports Arena Toledo Ohio USA
- 20 7 1971 Venue unknown Chicago Illinois USA
- 21 7 1971 Venue unknown Chicago Illinois USA
- 23 7 1971 Pirates World Dania Florida USA
- 24 7 1971 Venue unknown Orlando Florida USA
- 25 7 1971 The Warehouse New Orleans USA
- 27 7 1971 Venue unknown San Antonio USA
- 28 7 1971 Sam Houston Coliseum Houston USA
- 29 7 1971 Venue unknown Wichita USA
- 30 7 1971 Long Beach Arena Los Angeles USA
- 31 7 1971 Venue unknown Salt Lake City USA
Germany & Austria
- 1 9 1971 Messehalle Berlin Germany
- 4 9 1971 Stadthalle Vienna Austria
- 5 9 1971 Stadthalle Speyer Germany
UK
- 13 9 1971 Guildhall Portsmouth UK
- 19 9 1971 De Montford Hall Leicester UK
- 22 9 1971 Free Trade Hall Manchester UK
- 23 9 1971 Philharmonic Hall Liverpool UK
- 24 9 1971 Greens Playhouse Glasgow UK
- 25 9 1971 Empire Theatre Edinburgh UK
- 26 9 1971 City Hall Newcastle UK
- 29 9 1971 Winter Gardens Bournemouth UK
- 30 9 1971 Colston Hall Bristol UK
- 4 10 1971 Royal Albert Hall London UK
- 5 10 1971 City Hall Sheffield UK
- 10 10 1971 Theatre Coventry UK
- 11 10 1971 Guildhall Southampton UK
North American leg 3
- 22 10 1971 Felt Forum(MSG) New York USA
- 23 10 1971 Venue unknown Williamsburg Virginia USA
- 24 10 1971 Auditorium Theater Chicago Illinois USA
Setlist
- Speed KingSpeed King"Speed King" is a song by British hard rock band Deep Purple from their 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock. The song is one of the loudest from the album, and featured some of the band's greatest amount of improvisation in a studio recorded song, on both the original version and later live versions...
- Hush
- Into The Fire
- Child In TimeChild in Time"Child in Time" is a song by British hard rock band Deep Purple. Featured on their 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock, the song is 10 minutes and 18 seconds long.-History and characteristics:...
- Wring That Neck (Instrumental)~Brubeck's Unsquare Dance~Bach's Violin Partita no.3 in E Major~Bach's Gavotte en Rondeau~Grieg's Morning Mood~Greensleeves instrumental (composed by Henry VIII)~White Christmas instrumental
- Mandrake RootMandrake Root"Mandrake Root" is a song by Deep Purple that is featured on their debut album Shades of Deep Purple. The title is in reference to the hallucinogenic mandrake plant, but is also the name of a pre-Purple band that Blackmore was trying to form in Germany when he got the call from Deep Purple's...
~The Mule riff~You Really Got Me (The Kinks) - Paint It Black (instrumental only)
- Drum solo
Encores:
- Black Night
- Lucille (Little Richard)
- They played Walking on Down the Line jam with Keith EmersonKeith EmersonKeith Noel Emerson is an English keyboard player and composer. Formerly a member of the Keith Emerson Trio, John Brown's Bodies, The T-Bones, V.I.P.s, P.P. Arnold's backing band, and The Nice , he was a founder of Emerson, Lake & Palmer , one of the early supergroups, in 1970...
(from The NiceThe NiceThe Nice were an English progressive rock band from the 1960s, known for their blend of rock, jazz and classical music. Their debut album, The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack was released in 1967 to immediate acclaim. It is often considered the first progressive rock album...
) at Berlin Peace Festival
Tour diary & notable live dates
Deep Purple kicked off the tour at the BedfordBedford
Bedford is the county town of Bedfordshire, in the East of England. It is a large town and the administrative centre for the wider Borough of Bedford. According to the former Bedfordshire County Council's estimates, the town had a population of 79,190 in mid 2005, with 19,720 in the adjacent town...
Football Stadium, UK and soon visited German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
stadiums.
MK II's first USA leg followed, Purples headlined "National Pop&Blues festival". 25 August, Deep Purple made the USA premiere of Concerto for Group and Orchestra
Concerto for Group and Orchestra
The Concerto for Group and Orchestra is a concerto composed by Jon Lord, with lyrics written by Ian Gillan. It was first performed by Deep Purple and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Arnold on 24 September 1969 and released on vinyl in December 1969. The release was the first...
with Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, at Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
's Hollywood Bowl
Hollywood Bowl
The Hollywood Bowl is a modern amphitheater in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, United States that is used primarily for music performances...
, in front of 15 000 people.
setlist for the show was:
- First set (without Orchestra)
- Speed King
- Hush
- Wring That Neck
- Mandrake Root
- Child In Time
- Black Night
- Second set - Concerto For Group And Orchestra (edited):
- First Movement - Allegro moderato
- Second Movement - Andante
- Third Movement - Vivace presto
They returned to Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
in August, and played their first full tour of France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, including one show in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
's legendary Olympia
Paris Olympia
The Olympia is a music hall in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Located at No. 28, Boulevard des Capucines, its closest métro/RER stations are Madeleine, Opéra, Havre – Caumartin and Auber....
hall.
Scandinavia saw Purple shows after French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
Tour, Live album was recorded at KB Hallen, Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
. This was the first Rock live for Metallica
Metallica
Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1981 when James Hetfield responded to an advertisement that drummer Lars Ulrich had posted in a local newspaper. The current line-up features long-time lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo ...
's drummer Lars Ulrich
Lars Ulrich
Lars Ulrich is a Danish drummer, and one of the founding members of the American thrash metal band Metallica. He was born in Gentofte, Denmark to an upper-middle class family. A tennis player in his youth, Ulrich moved to Los Angeles, California at age sixteen to pursue his training; though rather...
, in his age of 9. Lars remembers the show as one of the greatest live he has ever seen, and says that this show, and Ian Paice
Ian Paice
Ian Anderson Paice is an English musician, best known as the drummer of the English rock band Deep Purple. As of Jon Lord's departure in 2002, he is the only founding member of the band who never stopped performing with the group, and the only member to appear on every album the band has...
's drumming influenced him to become a rock-drummer. Lars: "That was the famous gig where in a newspaper article the day after everybody talked about Deep Purple, I remember they played a lot of new songs, I was all of nine years old
After many European dates, the band headed to their first Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n Tour. Deep Purple first visited Australia as part of an groundbreaking, sell-out package tour with Free and Manfred Mann, supported by local Santana-inspired Latin-rock band Pirana. The tour played four states in as many days, breaking all previous attendance records for rock shows in Australia. It was an influential tour for the local scene, giving Aussie audiences their first direct experience of the heavy-rock style being pioneered by bands such as the headliners, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. Up to that time, fans had ben reliant on records, and on cover versions performed by local bands like The Dave Miller Set.
The tour played to capacity crowds for one night each in Perth and Adelaide on 16 and 17 May followed by two nights in Melbourne at the Festival Hall. The first Melbourne show on Saturday 18 May ran overtime by more than two hours, finishing after 1.00am. Over 5000 fans were turned away, so a second show on the Sunday 19 May was hastily arranged for the benefit of fans who missed the first performance. According to GO-SET, Deep Purple's first Melbourne performance was troubled by equipment problems, as was Free's set at the Sydney concert.
The following day the four groups played at a rapturously-received outdoor performance at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, attended by over 30,000 people. Segments of the concert were filmed by the ABC's GTK, and the tour received extensive coverage in the GO-SET edition of 22 May, with reviews of both the Melbourne and Sydney shows by Ed Nimmervol and David Elfick.
On 18 June band played their first gig in Iceland
Iceland
Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...
, Reykjavik
Reykjavík
Reykjavík is the capital and largest city in Iceland.Its latitude at 64°08' N makes it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói Bay...
at Laugardalls Hall.
Another massive North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
n leg followed, then Europe again and then back to USA, including one show at NYC's Felt Forum (nowadays known as Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan and located at 8th Avenue, between 31st and 33rd Streets, situated on top of Pennsylvania Station.Opened on February 11, 1968, it is the...
). In Rock Tour ended in Chicago's Auditorium Theater.
Live albums
- Live in Stockholm - CD - recorded 12 November 1970
- Scandinavian NightsScandinavian NightsScandinavian Nights is a double live album by Deep Purple. It was originally recorded by Swedish National Radio for a radio show called Tonkraft at the Stockholm Konserthuset on 12 November 1970, but not released until 1988. The tapes re-mixed by Tom Leader at Angel Studios...
- CD - recorded 12 November 1970 - Deep Purple in ConcertDeep Purple In ConcertDeep Purple in Concert is an album by British hard rock band Deep Purple, of two concerts recorded by the BBC for their "In Concert" live series, recorded in 1970 and 1972. First released in 1980 in the UK, with the current US edition being made available in 2001...
- CD - recorded 1970-1972
Line-Up
- Ian GillanIan GillanIan Gillan is an English rock music vocalist and songwriter, best known as the lead singer and lyricist for Deep Purple. During his career Gillan also fronted his own band, had a year-long stint as the vocalist for Black Sabbath, and sang the role of Jesus in the original recording of Andrew Lloyd...
- vocals - Ritchie BlackmoreRitchie BlackmoreRichard Hugh "Ritchie" Blackmore is an English guitarist and songwriter, who was known as one of the first guitarists to fuse Classical music elements with rock. He fronted his own band Rainbow after leaving Deep Purple where he was unhappy because his favourite musical style wasn't adequately...
- guitar - Jon LordJon LordJonathan Douglas "Jon" Lord is an English composer, pianist and Hammond organ player.Jon Lord, also known as 'Hammond Lord', is a classically trained piano player. He is recognised for his Hammond organ blues-rock sound and for his pioneering work in fusing rock and classical or baroque forms...
- hammond organ, keyboards - Roger GloverRoger GloverRoger David Glover is a Welsh bassist, songwriter, and record producer. Glover is best known as the bassist and lyricist for the hard rock band, Deep Purple.-Early career:...
- bass - Ian PaiceIan PaiceIan Anderson Paice is an English musician, best known as the drummer of the English rock band Deep Purple. As of Jon Lord's departure in 2002, he is the only founding member of the band who never stopped performing with the group, and the only member to appear on every album the band has...
- drums