Burn by Deep Purple

Burn, Deep Purple's eighth studio album, hit the racks on 15 February 1974, and the story is the new blood. Ian Gillan and Roger Glover were gone, and in came David Coverdale on lead vocals, making his recording debut, and Glenn Hughes, who came over from Trapeze to sing and play bass. With Ritchie Blackmore's guitar, Jon Lord's keyboards and Ian Paice's drums still in place, the Mark III lineup produced the record themselves, for Purple Records.

The title track charges like a runaway train, and most of the album stays in the hard rock and blues groove of Machine Head, but there's something new going on in the hips: a streak of funk that would only grow as this lineup rolled on, and two lead voices instead of one. It charted in 13 countries, reaching number three in the UK and nine in the US. The tour went well, but tensions flared on the next album, and Blackmore was gone by early 1975.

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