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Stealing Deep Purple
A new book about the 1980 bogus Purple debacle is available from a print-on-demand house Lulu Press. It is also said to be going out to regular retailer channels at the end of September.
In 1980, greed was good and you could get away with stealing just about anything, even a band name.
At the end of the 1970s, Rod Evans, the little known original singer of Deep Purple decided to relaunch the classic rock band for a continental American tour.
The only problem was that Evans reformed the group with no other original members and he had a very dubious legal claim to the band name.
What ensued was a tour plagued with bad performances, crowd riots, on-stage fighting and court cases.
The tour has become something of a legend among the fans of the band.
Using over 200 newspaper, book and magazine sources plus dozens of filmed interviews and brand new testimonies from people who were actually there, Steve McLean attempts to find out what actually happened.
“They all had something down their spandex pants. We couldn’t tell if it was vegetable or plastic…. Every time I watch that scene in Spinal Tap, I think of Deep Purple in 1980.” – Llory McDonald, Support Act.
What: Stealing Deep Purple: The Unbelievably True Story of the Most Audacious Stunt in Rock & Roll
Author: Steve McLean
When: July 9, 2025
Where: Lulu Press
ISBN: 9781300131847
Format: A5 (5.83 × 8.27 in / 148 × 210 mm) paperback, 373 pages
Price: € 18.10 + shipping
Thanks to BraveWords for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Has anyone read it?
July 17th, 2025 at 02:53And what a lovely looking band they were. So real too, I cannot imagine why that didn’t take off. Cheers.
July 17th, 2025 at 03:15Cut poor Rod some slack, I guess he just found it Hard To Be Without … Deep Purple!
https://youtu.be/MHYkzB5ZIzI
July 17th, 2025 at 04:45“Print-on-demand”!
So the publisher doesn’t dare to print a lot of copies beforehand 😄
July 17th, 2025 at 05:32