Deep Purple Reunion Press Conference announcement 1984 

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

Smoke on the tonsills

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

And drinker

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.

@@kristeradolfsson5594 Fire in the lungs

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

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

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.

​@@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.

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

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........

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

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

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

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

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

Which one? HAHAHA

@@TheGamerDonald 😂😂😂😂👍

@Rob R I think Binky meant Ian Gillan.

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

just got heart attack

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

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

@@5tar5z ok. Thank you.

His last name is spelled Gillan, not Gillian.

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

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

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

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 :/.

Because thug life 😎

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

@@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?

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

@@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.

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

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

@@Richard200000 Ian Gillan got kicked out.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

$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.

Stan Dan Deliver Who wouldn’t?

And the hottie next to him 👍😘

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

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

Both

Emealdoween rhythm and blues rock that’s totally jamming.

Hard rock with hints of progressive rock.

HEAVY METAL GODS!!!

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

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

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

@@gwcks Messing around is not fighting 😉

And wearing girly long hair!😂👍

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

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

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

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

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

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

@@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.

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

@@Rorschachxx1985 yes, more a country and western band

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Rorschachxx1985 no. Heavy metal : Megadeth , Slayer, Metallica

In Rock wasn't progressive?

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.

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

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.

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.

Ahh Fernando....😂😂😂

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

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.