SOLDIER
OF FORTUNE
DEEP
PURPLE
SONGWRITERS: David Coverdale & Ritchie Blackmore
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: STROMBRINGER
LABEL: PURPLE RECORDS
GENRE: BLUES ROCK
YEAR: 1974
Deep Purple are 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.
Deep Purple have had several line-up changes
and an eight-year hiatus (1976–1984). The first four line-ups, which
constituted the band's original 1968–1976 run, are officially indicated as Mark
I (1968–1969), Mark II (1969–1973), Mark III (1973–1975) and Mark IV
(1975–1976). Mark I comprised the founding members of Deep Purple, Ritchie Blackmore(guitar),
Rod Evans(vocals),
Jon Lord(keyboards),
Ian Paice(drums)
and Nick Simper(bass),
while Mark II was the most commercially successful line-up, with Ian Gillan(vocals)
and Roger Glover(bass)
replacing Evans and Simper. Mark III saw David Coverdale (vocals) and Glenn Hughes(bass
and vocals) replace Gillan and Glover, while Mark IV featured Tommy Bolin(guitar)
replacing Blackmore. Mark II was revived from 1984–1989 and again from
1992–1993, with Joe Lynn Turner(vocals)
replacing Gillan in the intervening 1989–1992 period. Mark II definitively
ended in 1993, when Blackmore left Deep Purple for the second and final time.
He was replaced temporarily by Joe Satriani(guitar)
and then permanently by Steve Morse(guitar).
In 2002 Don Airey(keyboards)
replaced Lord, which saw Deep Purple settle into its longest running line-up,
unchanged for the next twenty years, until Morse announced his departure from
the band in 2022. His place was taken by Simon McBride (guitar).
Ian Paice, Roger Glover, Ian Gillan, Don Airey and Simon McBride comprise the
current line-up of Deep Purple.
Stormbringer is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple,
released in November 1974 and the second studio album to feature the Mk III lineup including vocalist David Coverdale and bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes.
I have often told you stories about the way
I lived the life of a drifter
Waiting for the day
When I'd take your hand and sing you songs
Then maybe you would say
"Come lay with me and love me"
And I would surely stay
But I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill going round
Guess I'll always be a soldier of fortune
Many times I've been a traveller
I looked for something new
In days of old when nights were cold
I wandered without you
But those days I thought my eyes had seen you
standing near
Though blindness is confusing
It shows that you're not here
Now I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill going round
Guess I'll always be a soldier of fortune
I can hear the sound
Of a windmill going round
Guess I'll always be a soldier of fortune
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune.
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