Deep Purple: In Rock | Full Music Documentary | Ritchie Blackmore | Jon Lord | Ian Gillan

The long-awaited look at heavy metal and modern hard rock pioneer band, Deep Purple and their breakthrough album, IN ROCK. It was the first studio album from the Mark II lineup of Deep Purple, and with Ritchie Blackmore firmly in the driving seat, backed up by Gillan’s intense vocals, this album is seen by many fans as the ultimate in hard rock.
Deep Purple is an English rock band formed in London in 1968. They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, but their musical approach has changed over the years. Originally formed as a psychedelic rock and progressive rock band, they shifted to a heavier sound with their 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock. Deep Purple, together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, have been referred to as the "unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal in the early to mid-seventies". They were listed in the 1975 Guinness Book of World Records as "the globe's loudest band" for a 1972 concert at London's Rainbow Theatre and have sold over 100 million albums worldwide.
In Rock was the band's breakthrough album in Europe and peaked at No. 4 in the UK, remaining in the charts for over a year. By contrast, it under-performed in the US, where the band's Mark I albums had been more successful. An accompanying single, "Black Night" reached No. 2 in the UK, becoming their highest charting single there. The album has continued to attract critical praise as a key early example of the hard rock and heavy metal genres.
The album and the single "Black Night" were both released on 5 June 1970. In Rock reached No. 4 in the UK and stayed in the album charts throughout the year and into the next, until the follow-up album Fireball was ready. The original release featured a gatefold sleeve with full lyrics, and a set of black and white photographs of the band.
The U.S. release of the album cut the intro to "Speed King", which lasts just over a minute. It remains edited on the standard Warner Bros. U.S. release but was restored to full length on the 25th Anniversary package. The album was reissued in a single-sleeve vinyl in 1982, replacing the original gatefold sleeve. The Mexican release also included "Black Night" to the track listing.
The chart success of In Rock greatly raised Deep Purple's profile. In October, while touring the UK, Melody Maker ran a feature of "Purple Mania" showing the group's concerts were attracting increasingly enthusiastic crowds. The band finished the year touring Scandinavia and Germany. At a show at Lüdenscheid, they played without Blackmore who had taken ill. Fans started a riot and destroyed £2,000 worth of equipment.
The BBC states Deep Purple “made up the ‘unholy trinity’ of British hard rock and heavy metal during the genre's 1970s golden age.” The group have influenced a number of rock and metal bands including Metallica, Judas Priest, Queen, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Alice in Chains, Pantera, Bon Jovi, Europe, Rush, Motörhead, and many new wave of British heavy metal bands such as Iron Maiden, and Def Leppard. Iron Maiden's bassist and primary songwriter, Steve Harris, states that his band's "heaviness" was inspired by "Black Sabbath and Deep Purple with a bit of Zeppelin thrown in." Van Halen founder Eddie Van Halen named “Burn” one of his favourite ever guitar riffs. Queen guitarist Brian May referred to Ritchie Blackmore as "a trailblazer and technically incredible - unpredictable in every possible way". Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich states, "When I was nine years old it was all about Deep Purple. My all-time favorite is still Made in Japan". The band's 1974 album Stormbringer was the first record owned by Till Lindemann, vocalist of German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein.
Stars: Chris Charlesworth, Paul Elliot, and Malcolm Dome
Director: The Creative Picture Company
Current band members:
Ian Paice - drums (1968-1976, 1984-present)
Roger Glover - bass (1969-1973, 1984-present)
Ian Gillan - vocals, harmonica, percussion (1969-1973, 1984-1989, 1992-present)
Don Airey - keyboards (2002-present)
Simon McBride - guitar (2022-present)
Former band members:
Jon Lord - keyboards, string arrangements, backing vocals (1968-1976, 1984-2002; died 2012)
Ritchie Blackmore - guitars (1968-1975, 1984-1993)
Nick Simper - bass, backing vocals (1968-1969)
Rod Evans - lead vocals (1968-1969)
Glenn Hughes - bass, backing and lead vocals (1973-1976)
David Coverdale - lead and backing vocals (1973-1976)
Tommy Bolin - guitars, backing vocals (1975-1976; died 1976)
Joe Lynn Turner - lead vocals (1989-1992)
Joe Satriani - guitars (1993-1994)
Steve Morse - guitars (1994-2022)
Tracklist:
Mandrake Root/Improvisation
Hush
Hallelujah
First Movement
Third Movement
Speed King
Child in Time
In Rock Track List:
Speed King
Bloodsucker
Child in Time
Flight of the Rat
Into the Fire
Living Wreck
Hard Lovin' Man
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[@gretareinarsson7461]

Definitely one of the greatest rock album of the era and of rock history.

[@deanpodkubosek3863]

Best album of complete hard and heavy music ever!

[@tonyn3227]

One of the greatest hard rock albums of all time, in my opinion.

[@kurtsherrick2066]

In Rock is a Genre of it's own. Proto Metal, trash, Jazz and Classical elements. It was different than Zeppelin's and Sabbath's first. In Rock will always be my favorite studio Album.

[@martianshoes]

I’ve always felt that DP was as much a phenomenon as a band. RIP Jon Lord…..rock on Paicey…

[@wallacecollect]

Dome is talking nonsense when he calls the Concerto "pretentious". It was a great piece of work, no 'pretentions' anywhere to be seen.

[@macm3081]

He talks nonsense about a lot of bands. 😃

[@AlexAlexon3897]

@@macm3081: He's died, sadly.

[@macm3081]

@@AlexAlexon3897 RIP Malcolm.

[@michaelward9880]

I like it.

[@michaellurwer3915]

Greatest Rockband of all Time!!!!

[@barryrammer7906]

This is the icon of heaven metal. Deep Purple in Rock will go down down in history as a masterpiece 💜

[@Fuxerz]

It is the world needs to catch one more.

[@Veggamattic]

I wish that side 2 wasn't ignored. I adore it!

[@gretareinarsson7461]

Its a phenomenal album in every way. A groundbreaking rock album opening the floodgates for rock to come. Among the most important albums of its era. It’s relentless in its power and virtuosity. It’s as phenomenal today as it was then.

[@elton789]

In Rock is Deep Purple's best album!!

[@barryrammer7906]

By far my friend

[@Fuxerz]

I agree better than machine head. Only one tie is made in japan the very best live lp of any rock band ever.

[@user-zt7ne3bt8p]

Not a bad documentary, but I wish they'd have included more than two songs off the album.

[@jameskthomson3939]

I was 12 in 1970 when I first heard "In Rock" from my older brothers collection. I still remember where I was and what I was doing. There was never an album that had more influence on me.

[@seabud6408]

The American record label edited the live sonic mayhem that is the intro to Speed King, out of the US release. They obviously thought it was too extreme, when it is exactly what made this band so great. No one sounds like Deep Purple, live and at full tilt. That’s why Made in Japan is the best live hard rock album ever made … For me In Rock is up there with the very best rock albums.

[@robmokum9311]

Really one of the best bands in the world and live they were the greatest band ever. Always improvising.

[@CARambolagen]

Gillan actually never sang Child in Time better than at the end of his first term, in Japan in 1972.

[@bruceharrison8160]

All of Deep Purple members and songs I Love! Blackmore ,Gillan , Glover ,Paice , Lord my favorite though. Best band of all time hands down!

[@davidboyce8683]

Purple found their footprint with this album , will always be my favorite Purple album .

[@nickhines1131]

The end of flight of the rat is the best ending of any deep purple song.

[@Metal5678]

Deep purple 'in rock ' is a pioneering album (screaming vocals, blistering guitar from Blackmore, furious drumming, Hammond plugged-in marshall amps) it blew zeppelin and sabbath away in my opinion.

[@alwilson3204]

It was great. Nothing 'blew away' Black Sabbath.

[@alancondell3618]

Never judge a book by its cover. I did, and happy I did!!!!! The Who live at Leeds, was the competition. Purple won out, thank God!! I knew a lot of Who singles, but, only one DP song, Strange Kind of Woman!!!! BIG turning point in my life. I was 13. Raging hormones and Deep Purple, what a combination!!!

[@waywyrd6342]

One of my desert island albums. And def always in my top 5 albums.

[@littlebritain64]

I have been waiting for this for decades! Thanks for uploading!✌

[@TheStream]

Our pleasure!

[@johnskerlec9663]

I heard this after Burn and it blew my mind. The versatility and textural canvas was something new demanding attention. I stood up and listened. Still listening to it to this day.

[@IwasInThe60s]

There was a double-header show in Cape Town in 1996, with Deep Purple and Uriah Heap. I not only got high on their incredible music, but also from the fumes of weed everybody around me were smoking.😅

[@alwilson3204]

Uriah Heep never got near the credit they deserved; a very good rock band too, early on.

[@nobodyaskedbut]

Mark2 created their own genre with the monumental In Rock album. It was a genre of which only they ever played. They were quite simply the greatest group of rock musicians of all-time.

[@kram21]

my favorite Dp album

[@SergeCaelers]

Fantastic album!

[@thetruthhurts6652]

Doogie seems like one of the nicest and genuine guy. Would love to have a beer with the guy and talk music.

[@UCS0608]

For me this album is an absolute classic album, together with Fireball. I was 12 when I bought it, it had just been released!!

[@Streetcats.Chanel]

I loveee deep purpleee❤❤❤❤

[@avelinosilvadias]

The start of modern rock/metal 🤘

[@mikes5637]

Flight Of The Rat is so underrated.

[@caryheuchert]

I remember hearing “Hush” in 1968, when I was 6 years old. My favourite is still the third self-titled album, followed by “In Rock”.

[@markgordon2260]

The Concerto was a brilliant piece of writing and performance. All the guys are top musos, and they pulled it off.

[@vojislavninkov9002]

The best album ever in history of rock and blues music,pioneers of heavy metal 🤘

[@paulsartorello836]

I was 15, a drummer when in rock came out. Still my favourite of all time. The last track, Hard lovin man, is the ultimate in their talent. Maybe some progrock/ fusion/ jazz bands in 2023 are as good.. but that was 50 years ago! No comparison!!

[@StanWho]

The best Paice's drum track is You fool no one.

[@Metal5678]

Love all the tracks 'Hard lovin man' and 'flight or the rat' are my top two songs off the album. Most of my favourite songs by bands are not always the most well known .

[@vasilestan9719]

Deep Purple fan forever Child in time song best!

[@CARambolagen]

April was/is a great album. Glad they made it!

[@rippenburn]

The rhythm, pace, vocals, blistering guitar solo and (not to mention) GONG of Hard Lovin' Man make is the best song on the album. What a way to finish.

[@Purpledream.]

Deep Purple Forever 🖤 💜

[@oliviertruchon5648]

Really great band.

[@TheTralfaz]

Blackmores solo on Kentucky Woman is sheer genius

[@littlebritain64]

It was from Mk I before Gillan and Glover joined the band. But, yes, it was great. Another one is the solo in "River Deep, Mountains High"! Pure genius.

[@bigdaddydaddy3203]

Child in time live them playing it on tv was fn absolutely amazing I never really got into them but seeing that and watching them do their thing sucked me in like a vacuum

[@TodorZlatanov]

The Pioneers Of Heavy Metal!

[@ricardoluistomasone4663]

DEEP PURPLE IN ROCK ME CAMBIO LA VIDA BANDA PREFERIDA DE MI VIDA Y QUE ESCUCHO HASTA HOY CON 64 AÑOS !!!

[@francoisbodin4086]

Their best LP.

[@jasonbean2764]

1973. Age 14. Tampa Stadium. Headliner, Deep Purple. Opening acts included Savoy Brown and Blue Oyster Cult.:)

[@ivanterekhov5369]

Deep Purple Mk1's second and third albums are awesome.

[@MisterTMH]

Deep Purple today in 2023 are a sad shadow of their glory days in the early 1970's. They should call it a day.

[@DarkSideofSynth]

A real rock gem

[@marcianojuniormaraschin5080]

Deep Purple - Deep Purple In Rock. In Rock foi lançado em Junho de 1970. Quarto disco de uma banda em crescente evolução e, o álbum derradeiro, que veio a consolidar-lhes a fama atribuída de precursores do Hard-Heavy e Rock-Metal. Extremamente pesado e virtuoso, marca a entrada de Ian Gillan e Roger Glover nos vocais e contra-baixos, respectivamente. A banda, em mais de 40 minutos extrapola os limites até então estabelecidos da música e desfila sua magistral exuberância agressiva. Ian Gillan prova ao mundo seu poder e domínio lírico atingindo tons e notas inimagináveis - uma criança açoitada, torturada, fugindo em desespero e angústia do inferno. Ritchie Blackmore incorpora o espírito incendiário de Hendrix executando solos e riff´s matadores. John Lord, impõe-se como mestre dos teclados, cunhando distorções em seu Hammond tão sujas e destrutivas quanto uma chuva de meteoros. A "cozinha" baixo-bateria (Ian Paice e Roger Glover) revigorou sua competência desafiadora ressaltando exímias musicalidades. Deep Purple In Rock é tudo o que sua própria e altiva capa representa: um marco, um clássico absoluto. Nota 10.

[@serenadeduo]

“…I luv em,….I need em!” Long Live Blackmore and friends!

[@IwasInThe60s]

Machine Head was my first LP from them, and still my favorite. This was my second LP from them, ergo my second favorite.😆

[@space_kat1]

In Rock is definitely one of the greatest rock albums of all time and it really helped settle the blueprint for the heavy metal that would come later. from Motörhead to Van Halen to Diamond Head to Iron Maiden to Metallica to Megadeth to Dream Theater, you can hear its influence. were it not for the craziness and the progressiveness of In Rock, metal would be really different today.

[@What_Fred_Said]

Hard Lovein’ Man was and is a great hard drivin’ song on In Rock🎸

[@tommyseibel7902]

in rock was the real pre metal album, in case of virtuosity far beyound led zep 1 and the first black sabbath albums (and i like all that stuff). Ritchie was the first shredder.

[@edgrrickett140]

That was a jammin happenin at that playboy after dark gig doin hush i must say

[@victoriawunderlich]

Love Deep purple

[@markt4815]

This is true punk rock....brash, snotty and delivered.

[@TheJohnmb46]

A quote from Janick Gers to me in a pub in Hartlepool - "Oh sorry, have you not met Ian before?"

[@kerrycanfield332]

Raised on classical music and hijacked by rock guitar in my teens. The guitar solo to “Kentucky Woman” is a hall-of-fame half-minute. Still, I came to the DP discography late. The Concerto is a hoot! Why waste time slagging it? How many other musicians did that? Mr Lord himself evidently said that at the end of the Concerto one could have put the smiles of the band end to end and “spanned the Thames.”

[@andreaanelli5079]

My prefer in studio album of Deep Purple. well... it's at 1st position in my top-list. I love its groove , I love how they mix and jammed music there and all the heavy in sounds, but more in musical notes. When I listen Child in time or Speed king... I dreamed, I have been abducted from those songs. Later in listening DP I loved also other tracks. One of my favourite is Living Wreck. Maybe the only flaw in this album is that there are masterpieces that detract from other masterpieces. Future generations will listen to this album (like Led Zeppelin II and Black Sabbath too) as we listen now to Mozart or Beethoven, because is music that enters your soul and heart and shakes them. in my opinion Deep Purple Mark II is the best rock band ever. No one could reach what they made in the best live albums ever: Made in Japan and Live in Stockholm 1970.

[@StanWho]

Child in time guitar solo is like a finger exercise, nothing melodic but it perfectly fits to that song.

[@josemarildo924]

Meu disco preferido do Deep Purple é mais pesado parece está em fúria arrastando tudo como se fosse um furação Deep Purple IN Rock

[@leonedethebes]

This was the classic DP with the founding fathers of the band lord and blackmore. ...unlike the today IG TRIBUTE COVER BAND

[@stevehall9394]

Purple's best, in my opinion, but this is not a great documentary on the album. The interviews are fine - especially the older clips of the band - but they only mention two songs from the album, and gloss over side 2 completely. Why? Those are four brilliant, genre-defining songs. Flight Of The Rat has it all - pace, agression, technique, solos for everyone (almost). Also didn't even mention Black Night, released as the single at the time and got to #2 in the charts, and surely a major factor in driivng the success of the album. Overall, some nice touches, and some great footage, but poorly written and put together.

[@grobbler1]

Blackmore's vision for In Rock was for it to be a 'party album.'

[@tpbulle]

Under rated band

[@DurbanNiks101]

Huh what?

[@Fuxerz]

One of my most cherished items I have is the entire band signing in rock album. I picked it up from a collector and I'm gonna hang on that until the day I die. Then it's going. To auction for charity.

[@TheStream]

That's amazing!

[@wallacecollect]

Elliot's wrong - Uriah Heep are very different to Purple. Both great bands in their own right.

[@eirikmoltu553]

Very true

[@JunkerOnDrums]

You can actually hear Ian Gillan playing congas on some recordings, when the band played soft :D

[@jerrynappi7075]

Deep Purple was great but Emerson Lake & Palmer was great too for me the best prog rock band that ever was

[@ozzydoop1473]

I am A rare fan in that I enjoy all of deep purples line ups :

[@MrMjp58]

It all came together with that line-up; brilliant but as unstable as ever. Of course, a year or two later, it all happened again. Being a key operator in the rock firmament must have been like walking on shifting sand.

[@dieterbackes5862]

Absolut best Band ever

[@LA_Viking]

Nick Stemper really got screwed. I don’t want to be misunderstood…Roger Glover was/is one of the finest bassists in rock history and was a perfect “fit” for DP. But the way that Stemper was replaced could have been done much better.

[@myallotment1714]

Its a shame that there not a lot of information about Rod Evans Deep Purples original singer

[@MonixaDiaz-mm7ux]

Love

[@gregboardman915]

so thats it side 2 did not get a mention , what about Flight of the rat , hard loving man .

[@zebo-the-fat]

Interesting that in the videos, with all the excitement on stage, most of the audience look half dead!

[@ninoorjon]

And I wonder what, with all the excitement on the stage, people notice half dead audience. ☺

[@gatomanz]

Buenísimo! Para los hispanohablantes tengo un video en mi canal sobre este álbum y su contexto histórico :)

[@ari1234a]

Sooooo, In Rock is LP with two songs, 1st side "Speed King" and on the 2nd "Child In Time".

[@zdenkonouzovsky6947]

What are you talking about?

[@ms-jl6dl]

The whole episode they talk only about those two songs from "In rock"?

[@ari1234a]

@@ms-jl6dl Yup.

[@wallacecollect]

Dome says the Concerto was a "one off" - ever heard of Gemini Suite, Malcolm?

[@clouddog2393]

Purple were a great band in the '70's but after that like Sabbath their decline began . Now they are old men still touring and still trading on their past glories and reputations . Glad l saw them when they were at their peak .

[@ninoorjon]

After the peak, everyone begins to decline - this is the law of life and physics, and they earned fame by their own labor and can use it as they want, only they are not content with this and create without stopping. What inspires them I understand, but what inspires you and people like you is a mystery to me.

[@clouddog2393]

@@ninoorjon They don't create . They trade on past glories , play old material from the '70's when they were at their peak of creativity and are now a greatest hits band . To me that's futile , greedy and pointless. Sorry Nino . They should retire .

[@ninoorjon]

@@clouddog2393 Wow, radically. And these albums that they record are actually real or the products of the fantasy of crazy fans? Do they take you to their concerts by force? If not, then it's none of your business whether they stop performing or not.

[@clouddog2393]

@@ninoorjon Not saying that Nino . Just stating that l would'nt want to see them today . My opinion only . l'm not singling out just Purple but to my mind any old band with members in their '70's are well past their sell by date although obviously people still want to see them . Not for me however . Later material is very rarely as good as the classic stuff but l prefer to remember them as young men when the creative juices were flowing . Let's agree to disagree .

[@lalmuanpuiapachuau3714]

It started something which is not yet finished... Jon Lord

[@andzwe]

The opening songs may be the most obvious, epic ones, but coming back to this album it's a song like Flight of the Rat that appeals to me more. Typically, this is partly because that song lacks the over-the-top screaming that I once found impressive. Now I prefer a more down-to-earth, hard-hitting song with a good groove, the necessary virtuosity and suprises.

[@barrykimber]

Love the content, but HOW annoying are all the adverts !!??? 🤬🤬

[@mimmomangione3769]

What's wrong with those people sitting around while Purple play SPEED KING? No reactions? Are they dead? Robots? May be they're sleeping ...we'll never know!

[@gregboardman915]

As much is im a fan of Ritchie , he never seems to look happy

[@user-oj1xl6tr3y]

Рок 🎸 навсегда

[@gktde9874]

Did they ever played "Flight Of The Rat" live?

[@harrynewiss4630]

Pity there isn't more here about the other tracks.

[@Randgalf]

I guess it would be just too much to ask to even mention, much less talk about, the remaining 5 tracks. A lousy documentary about one of the most pivotal and important albums of all time.

[@johnholmes912]

One of the great rock bands, but not the greatest

[@wallacecollect]

Dome says an opera singer couldn't sing Child in Time! What nonsense - of course they could. That's the point: the average rock singer might not be able to sing it, but an opera singer could. Gillan was rare in that he was rock singer with range.

[@KsiNixNie]

Opera singers don't know how to sing with distortion, whereas Gillan's voice oscillates between clean and distortion continuously in Child in Time. Moreover, Gillan is a natural baritone, and for a baritone reaching those notes is something very few singers can do.

[@dannymartinez9371]

@@KsiNixNie Yes Gillan is a natural baritone who could easily sing tenor in a church choir, for example. He sang light and in the tenor range on songs like Sitting in a Dream from the Butterfly Ball or IGB's Five Moons that one might initially think he is singing falsetto but he is actually singing full voice. You know a singer is great if he can sing well softly and not just be a good belter.

[@ninoorjon]

@@dannymartinez9371 And he is very diverse in the presentation of the song - amazing musical intelligence and technical abilities together.

[@johnskerlec9663]

VU Metres, hard to the right always in the red. Do that with the digital gear. Ha ha.

[@wallacecollect]

What about talking about the tracks on In Rock? Why all this gossip nonsense?

[@bakeone4406]

Critics are incredibly good at being dumb, sometimes it's hard to believe they can even breathe... you can like Machine Head more than In Rock, but saying that "Machine Head is a stronger album" is really shitting the bed. Same goes for calling the third album w/ the Hieronymus Bosch cover a turkey.

[@eirikmoltu553]

Wish they could not...

[@Caligari...]

Uriah Heap ?