david coverdale was the original lead singer for deep purple.
who was the original lead singer for deep purple?
david coverdale
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in 1980, ex-deep purple vocalist rod evans was contacted by a management team who offered him a chance to play under the deep purple name again, which he took. he fronted this band of unknown session musicians, which became known to deep purple fans as the bogus deep purple. the band played across the us, canada and mexico, with many shows ending in riots. 









































the management company behind the bogus deep purple registered "deep purple" as an llc in february 1980 and mentioned that an album was to be recorded.
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before october 2012, deep purple had never been nominated for induction into the rock and roll hall of fame (though they have been eligible since 1993), but were nominated for induction in 2012 and 2013. despite ranking second in the public's vote on the rock hall fans' ballot, which had over half a million votes, they were not inducted by the rock hall committee. kiss bassist gene simmons and rush bassist geddy lee commented that deep purple should obviously be among the rock and roll hall of fame inductees. there have been criticisms in the past over deep purple not having been inducted. toto guitarist steve lukather commented, "they put patti smith in there but not deep purple? what's the first song every kid learns how to play? ["smoke on the water"] ... and they're not in the rock and roll hall of fame? ... the rock and roll hall of fame has lost its cool because of the glaring omissions." guns n' roses and velvet revolver guitarist slash expressed his surprise and disagreement regarding the non-induction of deep purple: "the list of people who haven't even been nominated is mind-boggling ... [the] big one for me is deep purple. how could you not induct deep purple?". metallica band members james hetfield, lars ulrich and kirk hammett have also lobbied for the band's induction. in an interview with "rolling stone" in april 2014, ulrich pleaded: "i'm not going to get into the politics or all that stuff, but i got two words to say: 'deep purple'. that's all i have to say: deep purple. seriously, people, deep purple. two simple words in the english language ... 'deep purple'! did i say that already?" in 2015, chris jericho, wwe wrestler and current vocalist of rock band fozzy, stated: "that deep purple are not in it [hall of fame]. it's bullshit. obviously there's some politics against them from getting in there."
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