Deep Purple Reunion Press Conference announcement 1984

For the first time since October 1984, we are now able to watch the full press conference by Deep Purple announcing their Perfect Strangers album and tour. Presented by Polygram and the ABC radio network, this was as they say, a momentous occasion in Rock. Ritchie Blackmore failed to attend, whilst the remaining Mark 2 members are clearly enjoying the moment.

[@lightningbrigade4722]

It was one of the happiest days of my life for being a Deep Purple fan.💜🇬🇧🎸

[@phillthorpe2643]

I saw them 2 nights in a row in Sydney on that tour !

[@LASKARIKOS]

Wow nice

[@kimedmond5377]

Freakin awesome album. I’m still blasting it and I’m an old man now

[@steveorules3972]

One of my favorite bands of all times, just pure energy..

[@orange70383]

I love it, "knock knock, hey Ritchie are you pumped up about our big MTV Deep Purple reunited interview today" "door slams"

[@MaestroGreggoryTV]

Perfect Strangers is the greatest comeback album of all time. Iconic.

[@williamking9586]

Yeah man, I listened to Deep Purple way back in jounier high. That song Hush, is one of my favorites.Their great.

[@lukadagega1893]

Love them so. so much!!!

[@ciadella1971]

Ian Paice is my hero! And Martha Quinn is so beautiful.

[@manuelag.h.7471]

BLACKMORE Crazy Genius !!!!!

[@AnyFuleKnoThat]

Thank you for re-posting this with sound, 👍 💕

[@marklawless8829]

I've always asked myself how Ian Gillan could have a so powerful voice considering he was always been a so heavy smoker

[@kristeradolfsson5594]

Smoke on the tonsills

[@reclaimerReclaimer]

Apparently only Paicey and Ritchie weren't smokers, though in a sense they were passively...

[@notgivennotgiven7776]

And drinker

[@dashriprock5720]

And heavy drinker. I don't see what you can't understand. He had a powerful voice because he was born with a gift. Obviously drinking and smoking took it's toll. It is right around this time his voice began to sound differently and decline.

[@thespiciestboi1989]

@@kristeradolfsson5594 Fire in the lungs

[@cosmigonon9568]

Good document!! P.S.: Be careful with the abrupt loud sound at minute 08:33

[@crisl7777]

just got heart attack

[@SaulGoodman-w2x]

Love the sense of humor all of them have. "If it's worth doing it's worth overdoing" LMAO!

[@Stefan-]

I love that album !

[@chevy4x466]

Perfect strangers is my favorite album ever

[@markgarin6355]

Saw them in Worcester Mass, perfect stranger tour... Great show, loved them before, loved their subsequent albums....

[@user-hl8vy3cn5g]

Большое спасибо вашему каналу за интересную встречу.

[@shanecopner7827]

The first question,the answer was money and nostalgia I love purple,seen them many times,

[@darwinblinks]

it's so hilarious seeing Blackmore's seat empty with the name tag still up

[@michaelknight4041]

The Camara zoom on his empty chair is like "Ritchie is not here!" Lol

[@brendaromaine2064]

I will always love, "DEEP PURPLE." 💜💜💜💜💜 IAN GILLAN is so frek'n hot.

[@johnbarrett4846]

Aww bless them. They even put a place name down for Ritchie, actually thinking he would show up for this kind of nonsense. No one had the heart to tell them he doesn't do this kind of thing. Great video though, thanks for posting.

[@heikkidtw5992]

Kinda like Neil Peart...some people just dont like the limelight

[@craigeyler4495]

Ian Gillan said early on during the press conference that "Ritchie doesn't do this sort of thing", which was definitely disappointing, but this was interesting and fun to watch. Saw the Seattle gig in April 1985 and they were amazing.

[@michaelknight4041]

​@@heikkidtw5992 well I think it just approaches the unreal after awhile. Neil just wanted to put aside the indignation and get on with the fascination cause that's the real relation, the underlying theme if you will.

[@heikkidtw5992]

@@michaelknight4041 art as expression, not as market campaigns, will still capture our imagination

[@richardperusse4299]

even Blackmore didn't love that thing , it was important for the band , he had to be there, i love Ritchie since all these years but maybe he's too pretentious....he was making love to Candice that day maybe instead....lol........

[@user-tc7uj5hj1s]

Эх! Как молоды мы были!!!!

[@paulolisboa6298]

Loved to remember good old Mr. John Douglas Lord.... RIP

[@CB-xr1eg]

Info says this is the full press conference, it may be more than we've seen before but its not complete. You can clearly hear someone say there will be more questions after the music finished.

[@craigeyler4495]

That was unfortunate, but I'm still VERY glad to have what we have. Thank You!

[@peoriavideosltd6822]

Dig the comments about Stonehenge!

[@carlosalbertovz]

Good ole' MTV. Martha Quinn was really beautiful.

[@CB-xr1eg]

I think she was eyeing up Gillan for later, and possibly vice versa.

[@craigeyler4495]

She was a real cutie, wasn't she? It did look like she was eyeing up SOMEbody...

[@ABTsoon]

Ричи как всегда

[@Thebeastfromnorth75]

Brilliant camera work....

[@chriscothran4624]

I was born a year before this. I have loved Deep Purple all my life. When time travel is available, I am going back and relivi g the 1980's. I wonder if Martha Quinn has a bush.. Only Time Travel Will Tell. 😉

[@guillermo3564]

I'll guarantee that in 1984 she did.

[@MoonchildMindaugas2]

DP reuniting, and a cutie reporter - WIN

[@doccyclopz]

Me and all my friends were freaking out when we heard the news they were back together.

[@lisalisovna2424]

люблю их с Шестнадцати лет!

[@thomasmichael4987]

there was anouncements a hole day in the radiostation swf3 in germany, an it was 11 pm in the Night in germany....Frank Laufenberg starte the radioschow with this interview . i was 18, and can´t stop cry after perfect strangers startet...a few days later i bought the LP .... stoped playing a few hours befor the show in Mannheim startet in July 85...

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

thomas michael I was at the show too. A very fine day indeed but quite a trip from Denmark to Mannheim.

[@pacg1]

I was here, in Madrid, seeing them, that July'85, in a football stadium. Or August... First scheduled show here was suspended because of a kind of Gillan's illness, or similar. They came back some two weeks later, and did an unforgettable and powerful show, I enjoyed as few things an 18 yo guy can dream of. At the end of the concert, although, my all-time hero, the Man in Black, decided, ehemmm..., not to play the last song, "Smoke on the Water". We saw this masterpiece of him, played by his bandmates, and having another genius, gentleman Mr. Lord, doing his part and his absent bandmate's. Anyway that was great. We liked that. We, the audience loved them. You could feel that. (Sadly, that was my last time to see my guitar hero. I saw them several other times, and was also great, even emotive, but there were other guitarists with them: S. Morse (nice guy, but not my favourite player, and not the best piece to this band, imho), and S. McBride (and liked him very, very much))

[@BinkyTheGoddessDivine]

Ian has the sexiest voice ever!

[@GiorgiojoSarogni]

He also sing very loud... like screaming at "Kids in Time" 😂😂😂😂(just joking off corse..) Life is Purple 💜 Jon Lord 💜 RIP

[@TheGamerDonald]

Which one? HAHAHA

[@GiorgiojoSarogni]

@@TheGamerDonald 😂😂😂😂👍

[@CB-xr1eg]

@Rob R I think Binky meant Ian Gillan.

[@jasonreese4573]

He was a sexy dude back in the day! (Love that hair)

[@user-hl8vy3cn5g]

Большое спасибо вашему каналу за проделанный труд 👍.

[@user-vn6me1hg5x]

Лена,Вам,кажется, эту 'Глыбу' тянуть такими методами надо?

[@olgak_9932]

@@user-vn6me1hg5x Эту ГЛЫБУ тянуть вообще не надо. Все вытянуто до нас самой ГЛЫБОЙ)

[@hellblauauge]

27. October 1984

[@chriscothran4624]

Thank You. I was born at 6:26 pm on Friday, October 28, 1983. Turns out this was one year later, minus one day.

[@FurleyVision]

Ian made a Stonehenge joke brilliant, this was just a few months later

[@nehalsaldanha1070]

Ritchie needs to let the others talk, for god's sake!!!

[@craigeyler4495]

It is always 'HIM-HIM-HIM', isn't it?

[@moritz0911]

The Reunion was an Offer from the Record Company Polydor. Each member get 2 Mil$ - and nobody says 'NO'!

[@jessemcdonald3836]

Ritchie was unable to attend 😂😂😂😂😂 interesting way of saying “didn’t want to attend cos he’s a sook”

[@theanswerisinthebackofyourhead]

WHAT IS A SOOK JESSE, I AM SURE ITS RIGHTFULLY UNFLATTERING AS HE WAS THE TROUBLE MAKER OF THE GROUP, ESPECIALLY TOWARDS IAN GILLIAN.

[@5tar5z]

OBAMA HATER a “sook” is slang in Newfoundland for a sulk, baby, whiner etc.

[@theanswerisinthebackofyourhead]

@@5tar5z ok. Thank you.

[@AlbertEinsteinSpock]

His last name is spelled Gillan, not Gillian.

[@ericcampbell6370]

Ritchie never liked to be interviewed with the rest of the band.

[@EdubertoPalitroke]

'Ritchie's fixing his cat'. A wig is called 'cat' in my country...

[@Stefan-]

Yeah, the old wig ploy.... Ian paice also has way more hair now than in this video from ´84.....

[@euanelliott3613]

@@Stefan- Paicey had a scalp reduction operation where the middle is cut out and the sides get pulled up and tacked together. Glenn Hughes has had the same procedure as his hair was receding. If you watch Rock Family Trees you can see Paiceys hair is sticking out at an angle at the back because of the operation, which I suspect is why he wears his hair in a ponytail to disguise it.

[@pacg1]

​@@euanelliott3613 Totally crazy guys, these.

[@gj8683]

Sharp dudes

[@lstarrtna4288]

Omg he said New Zealand😭 When deep was deep and purple was purple

[@Gamer_guy97]

Ritchie Blackmore is who he is, which is a very basic person who happens to be the best guitar player in history, you all think that he's self centered which maybe true but he's a man who loves his fans and his music, I mean just because he's not your typical rockstar doesn't mean he's a bad guy.

[@michaelkoszowski3716]

12:45 ..would of loved to hear what lord said to glover ...

[@Richard200000]

The first sign's of Ritchie's leaving the band...

[@Fongolitus]

what? it just got back together. that lineup stayed together for 5 years.

[@Richard200000]

@@Fongolitus Exactly, and who's leaving after that 5 years?

[@Fongolitus]

@@Richard200000 Ian Gillan got kicked out.

[@danielfisch389]

Ritchie left in November 1993, during the 'Battle rages on' tour. Besides, he very rarely was present at press conferences, even with Rainbow which was his band!

[@FoutstoChandler]

The Chief!

[@thomasdudley6514]

Martha Quinn Anita blackwood and Lisa Robinson were great ladies and informative sorry purp mart is right your metal first wave I'm sure she asked Uriah heep the same

[@davegosselin9327]

blackmore just never did many interviews , he def shoulda been at this one. considering its a reunion and new album launch. he lacks gratitude for media attention and his bandmates it seemed. hes a brilliant guitarist but come on. stand with the band. the album was in my opinion. deep purples best ! still listen to it in 2020. its a masterpiece of purple

[@pacg1]

I love that album

[@teddybear9029]

Knebworth 85 a very wet day!

[@davidledford6482]

one of the only purple songs i just never liked much,an everyone else loved..perfect stranglers..

[@standandeliver8376]

5:24 to 6:23 I think the camera man has a thing for Martha!

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

Stan Dan Deliver Who wouldn’t?

[@piercetapes]

Reckon whatever became of the infamous Stonehenge prop?

[@moritz0911]

2.000.000 from Polydor for each member! Cash!

[@MRB16th]

$2 million - good reason to say yes. As an aside, Ian Gillan's agent threatened to resign and move his family to Australia if he didn't accept the invite.

[@DeePPurPleLemoN]

How the hell Gillan was able to sing "Child in time" every day, while smoking all the time...

[@CB-xr1eg]

The answer to that is, he didn't sing it every day!

[@DeePPurPleLemoN]

Point is that he was one of the best vocalists of his time and was not giving a shit to take care of his voice :/.

[@MoonchildMindaugas2]

Because thug life 😎

[@jasonreese4573]

I bet he regrets not taking care of his voice now. His voice isnt close to what it use to be.

[@Martsapso21]

@@jasonreese4573 I bet he regrets nothing. He lived his life to the max and had as much fun as possible, why would anyone regret this?

[@guillermo3564]

Richie, unable to join them, right. It was just richie being richie.

[@johnnymata9133]

Deep Purple Was Never A Heavy Metal Band! They Were A Hard Rock, Prog Rock Band. Lame Reporter Martha Quinn!

[@bazzturd9414]

Wrong. The are the pioneers of heavy metal alongside Black Sabbath.

[@barryclattenburg2243]

I agree, D P is a hard rock band, heavy metal is a whole different style !

[@grobbler1]

12:28 Could have worked as a stage move involving the audience;

[@gatolocoverga152]

Why in New york instead of london?

[@Elñoño999]

El rubio con rulos que esta sentado con los musicos de deep purple es luisito comunica dentro de unos años jaja.

[@mauriziosoffici4468]

N1

[@teddybear9029]

As usual mr Blackmores absent!

[@ovaisnaqvi1965]

Check the dude out at 13:49. ☺️

[@MoonchildMindaugas2]

And the hottie next to him 👍😘

[@orange70383]

That's 2 of the 5 original MTV VJ's Mark Goodman, and Martha Quinn,

[@lstarrtna4288]

Wow deep purple killing it America Castles and pyramids The stonehenge joke lol

[@user-ud8mm4qk4i]

Spinal Tap movie was already out back then and everybody git the joke. The fact that Blackers was absent is itself very "Spinal Tap"!

[@tyronesharp401]

I don't think so......Ritchie don't play that.

[@betofogo17]

Sound too low

[@laidipaintofficial]

Glen hughes.. David coverdale.. R black more.. Ian p

[@brianorakpohit]

Blackmore not turning up. I suppose its meant to look cool and aloof, but really, I think its so contrived and disrespectful. Its your band buddy, if you cant be arsed to show up it sets a poor dynamic up to fail, which of course it soon did with the follow up Blue Light.

[@JojoJojo-dz8ge]

" wasted sunset "...

[@jasonreese4573]

Jojo Jojo Perfect Strangers album!! Awesome stuff! The memories!!

[@pacg1]

Not wasted, anyway. I love that album. Then and now. And liked the others. Not as powerful as early years' music composed and released by those legends, but, it's fine. Remember, nevertheless, that only a few rock bands did more than two or three albums in their whole career. As if good inspiration were something reached by (or allowed to) only a few ones. And those guys are between them.

[@Emesash]

heavy metal band? or hard rock?

[@MoonchildMindaugas2]

Both

[@sandychrist11]

Emealdoween rhythm and blues rock that’s totally jamming.

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

Hard rock with hints of progressive rock.

[@bazzturd9414]

HEAVY METAL GODS!!!

[@steveorules3972]

Deep Purple Hard rock Gods, Judas Priest heavy metal Gods..

[@geizadireito1162]

There are too much cigarretes here! Ian Gillan until 90’s was a huge smoker and drinker. Such as Jon Lord

[@williamsizemore98]

Those Dudes sure smoke a lot of cigarettes.

[@Mr01081960]

Where is Ritchie 😂😂😂😂😂

[@gwcks]

When men were men smoking and drinking

[@MoonchildMindaugas2]

and messing around with women (No Laughing In Heaven reference) :)

[@gwcks]

@@MoonchildMindaugas2 ian paice would get vilified by social media for saying you wanna fight with a woman nowadays 🤦‍♂️

[@MoonchildMindaugas2]

@@gwcks Messing around is not fighting 😉

[@CB-xr1eg]

And wearing girly long hair!😂👍

[@Martsapso21]

Nothing says "I'm a manly man" like smoking, drinking and dying a pathetic death of cancer or liver failure at 58.

[@Cummings7]

Heavy metal 🙄

[@mityaypolov6118]

Жаль, что это было так давно, а то бы я насовал этой девочке ласковых по поводу хэви метал груп. С какого перепугу Пэпл стали тяжело металлической группой. Hard rock original group. Девуля далека от тяжести ваще и в общем.

[@MoonchildMindaugas2]

Ну, а чем Speed King, Fireball, Hard Lovin' Man не хеви? К тому же они такие порой жёсткие замесы играли, шо...

[@fabiocollina]

Purple heavy metal band? How stupid

[@MoonchildMindaugas2]

Some tracks were definitely heave metal. Speed King, Fireball, Hard Lovin' Man, Bloodsucker.

[@Martsapso21]

@@MoonchildMindaugas2 Those were all Hard Rock. Heavy Metal is something like Angel Witch or Iron Maiden. Purple have nothing to do with that.

[@MoonchildMindaugas2]

@@Martsapso21 I don't see it that way with those DP tracks. IM is power-/prog-metal, BTW, not so much heavy-metal.

[@euanelliott3613]

Is that Eric Bloom from Blue Oyster Cult? (Joking of course). To be honest the reunion was a disappointment, Gillan's voice had gone and Ritchie was in a different phase in his playing. Sorry to piss off the diehards but Come Taste The Band was the final Purple album. Perfect Strangers sounded like Rainbow with Gillan on vocals, and the albums that followed were appalling. Slaves And Masters was the Rainbow album Ritchie would have made without the reunion. In 1990 Joe Lynn Turner was singing better than Ian Gillan but was not popular. MK4 had more dignity.

[@massimopescatori6514]

Never listened a fucking silly thing like this ... Perfect Strangers was a great album and also tour was superb !

[@euanelliott3613]

@@massimopescatori6514 Excuse me but the tour was not superb. In France Gillan could hardly sing, at Knebworth he sounded like he was being garrotted and in Australia his voice was fucked by the time Highway Star was over. As for the album, it had four decent songs on it and in my opinion failed to live up to their legend. If you must post comments like that, at least do your homework. And for the record I've been a Deep Purple fan since 1975, how about you.

[@monmixer]

Certainly not a metal band. a hard rock band , Not eve quite progressive. Rainbow was a bit progressive. You would never see a professional musician smoke during an interview and rarely on stage these days.

[@Rorschachxx1985]

Songs like speed king, child in time, black night, fireball, highway star, smoke on the water, space truckin are heavy metal.

[@fabiocollina]

@@Rorschachxx1985 yes, more a country and western band

[@mauriziosoffici4468]

Rorschachxx1985 deep parole classica soul funky hard rock metal tutto

[@dortega12]

Rorschachxx1985 no. Heavy metal : Megadeth , Slayer, Metallica

[@MoonchildMindaugas2]

In Rock wasn't progressive?

[@FernandoSouza-nh7tr]

And, of course, songs from Burn, Stormbringer and Come Taste the Band were left out becouse of Ian Gillan's massive proud, ego and arrogance. What a shame.

[@Martsapso21]

Yep, all Gillan's fault. I bet if they had another singer in his place the setlist would be full of Coverdale songs. Oh wait, that DID happen a few years later and the only Coverdale song to make the cut was Burn. Now, I'd love to hear Gillan having a go at Burn, but his reasons for not doing it are perfectly understandable and have obviously nothing to do with ego and arrogance. He wouldn't be singing Hush at every concert, including solo shows and the R & R HoF induction, if that was the case.

[@MoonchildMindaugas2]

His words are he usually does not connect with those songs, as for Hush, they just mix setlists sometimes for a change, that's all.

[@jessemcdonald3836]

Ahh Fernando....😂😂😂

[@jamesobrien1806]

@@MoonchildMindaugas2 They did redo Hush with Ian back on the Nobody's Perfect album.

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

Of course Gillan did sing Hush, Mandrake Root and other Mkl DP songs back in 69 when he joined Purple. After ‘84 there was more than enough Mk ll songs to choose from so obviously no need to do any Mk lll songs.

[@jamsheadaziz3999]

I'm a die hard purple fan. In my opinion they should never have reformed. Perfect strangers was not a good album. House of blue light was even worse. Why spoil the legacy. Compare in rock or Machine head to this

[@euanelliott3613]

In all honesty I consider Come Taste The Band the final Deep Purple album, even though it was recorded without Blackmore. Ritchie himself said the reunion was about money, and for 2m each I think they could have done better than Perfect Strangers. It was good, but DP were always meant to be sensational, and Gillans voice was going even as far back as 1984. Had Glenn Hughes not been unwell with cocaine addiction I would have preferred a MK3 reunion instead, but in the '80's they weren't as popular. Coverdale and Hughes would have written and sung better than Ian Gillan. I was also disappointed that Gillan wouldn't sing MK3 songs, as they played at least three of theirs during 1974/75. The reunion was ultimately a disappointment, and we saw them for what they are: five middle aged rockers looking for a payday. Give me Tommy, David and Glenn anyday. Hughes and Bolin may have had issues with drugs, but they believed in what they were doing, not cashing in on a famous name for the sake of nostalgia. RIP Tommy and Jon.

[@jonblackers4339]

@@euanelliott3613 TBRO tour was very good but they did nt come to America.....So a lot of Americains on fora just forget that tour.