[Introduction | The Band | References]

Part 1: 1968 to 1976 | Part 2: 1984 to 1999 | Part 3: 2000-04

Introduction

This is a year-by-year listing of the songs played live by Deep Purple. Track order is not always exactly accurate as songs have been known to be moved from show-opener to encore from one night to the next!

Some songs were played almost every night whereas others were only played occasionally. This list should, however, give you some idea of which songs have always been popular and which appealed only to certain incarnations of the Purple machine.

A tilde sign "~" before a song title indicates that a "snippet" or extract from this piece was included in the track above it. I got this idea from Ingo's bootlist; much easier than using "interpolating..." or "including excerpt from...", e.g.:

The Mule
~Drum solo

or:

Space Truckin'
~Woman From Tokyo
~Paint It Black

Easy, hey?

Some bootlegs (and even official releases) list these "snippets", but most are not listed anywhere and have been identified by myself with help from Michael Richard's excellent Live Cassette Analysis book and Janell Duxbury's The Classical Quotes. Benjamin Weaver, Heikki Heino and Martin Ashberry have also added some valuable information. Not every snippet was included at every performance though.

Deep Purple covered a number of other artists' songs either as full versions or snippets. In these cases I have mentioned the artist (or group) usually associated with this song and not necessarily the composer. For ease of reading I've only mentioned the artist concerned the first time the song was performed.

See Songs Covered By Deep Purple page for more info.

The Band

Some sources refer to the different versions of Mark 2 as new incarnations each time, and therefore number the versions sequentially ie. Mk 2 in 1984 then becomes Mk 5 and so on. You work it out! I still prefer the other method.

Don Airey played keyboards during the European Tour in August & September 2001, due to Jon Lord having had a knee operation. Jon announced his retirement in March 2002 and Don Airey was confirmed as his permanent replacement.

References

Highway Star

• Radio And TV Broadcasts List
• Jouni's Live Album Discography and Videography
• Alphabetical Song List
• Songs Covered By Deep Purple
• Tour Reviews from around the world and through the years.
• The Classical Quotes page by Janell Duxbury
• Ingo's bootlist
• Deep Purple Live Albums Through The Years by Jim Collins

  Websites

• The Deep Purple Diary - Nigel Young's comprehensive site for concert dates, TV and radio appearances and recording sessions.
• Tour Dates List by Martin Ashberry.
• Tour dates on Man's website.
• Benny Holmstrom's House Of Blue Light website.
• The South African Deep Purple Fansite

Publications

• The Illustrated Biography - a great (though now very out-of-date) book by Chris Charlesworth (Omnibus Press, 1983).
• Record Collector, No. 222 (Feb 1998) - an excellent article by Matthew Kean.
• Booklet with On The Road 4CD box set (2001), by Matthew Kean.
• Deep Purple: Live Cassette Analysis 1968-1993 - a brilliant, detailed book by Michael Richards.

Any reasonable comments to Brian Currin