Introduction: A Purple Passage or a Lasting Legacy? Andy R. Brown Part One: Exploring the heavy rock band virtuosity of Deep Purple 1 Deep Purple's Black Knight: The Virtuoso Identity of Ritchie Blackmore in defining the riff-driven Heavy metal of In Rock Kevin Ebert 2 Wizard of the Art: Jon Lord, a Legacy 'In Rock' keyboard James Dickinson, Bath Spa University 3 Speed King: Setting the Paice Simon Poole, Falmouth University 4 Ian Gillan and the Legacy of the Operatic Voice in Heavy metal: Borrowed Feminine Classical Virtuosity in Metal Masculinity Francesca Stevens, Falmouth University 5 Blackmore and Gillan's Guitar and Voice Games Live in Japan: Rock Falsetto as an Auditory Spectacle Catherine Rudent, Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle 6 Taking the Lead: Ritchie Blackmore and Tommy Bolin (re)shape Heavy rock virtuosity Kevin Fellezs, Columbia University Part Two: Analysing the Riff Composition of Deep Purple and its Studio Capture 7 The Tonal Language of Deep Purple Mk2: Riffs, Modes, Chords, and Progressions Esa Lilja, University of Stavanger 8 Flight of the Riff: Distinguishing Hard Rock and Metal in the Seminal Styles of Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep, and Black Sabbath Dietmar Elflein, Technical University Braunschweig 9 Martin Birch - Catalyst: The Pivotal Role of Deep Purple's Sound Engineer on the Classic Mk2 Albums Jan-Peter Herbst, University of Huddersfield Part Three: Purple as Pioneers of the World Tour and its Fan and Band Legacy 10 Heavy metal on Stage: Deep Purple's Made in Japan and the Production of Arena Rock Steve Waksman, Smith College 11 From Underground Cafes to the Kremlin: Deep Purple's Influence on Russian Hard 'n' Heavy Music Behind the Iron Curtain Dawn Hazle, University of Nottingham 12 Darker Than Blue, the DPAS and Simon Robinson: Master of the Purple Back Catalogue Andy R. Brown.