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Profile of Ian Gillan on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Ian Gillan  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 19th August 1945
   
Place of Birth: Hounslow, England, UK
   
Profession: Composer
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Ian Gillan (August 19, 1945), Heavy Metal vocalist. Gillan was born in Hounslow, Middlesex, England. After leaving Deep Purple in 1973, he went into brief retirement before forming the Ian Gillan Band. The early band sound had a distinct jazz-rock aspect which proved unpopular and was replaced by a more high powered hard rock sound as Gillan reformed the lineup and shortened the groups name to Gillan. With the release of Mr. Universe Ian Gillan was back in the UK charts and through several more line up changes released a string of hit singles and successful albums including Glory Road, Future Shock, Double Trouble, and finally Magic.

Then he announced the band would fold as he needed to rest his damaged vocal cords. In 1983 he joined Black Sabbath to record the Born Again album before rejoining Deep Purple shortly after completing the Born Again tour in early 1984.

Gillan is now working on a project to document his 40-year career, tentatively called Gillan's Inn. Tony Iommi, Jeff Healey, various members of Deep Purple and many others will be featured on this 2006 DVD project.

Gillan greeting fans backstage, July 19, 2005, after a Deep Purple concert in Ottawa, Canada.

Discography

With Deep Purple

  • Concerto for Group and Orchestra (1969)
  • Deep Purple in Rock (1970)
  • Fireball (1971)
  • Machine Head (1972)
  • Made in Japan (1972)
  • Who Do We Think We Are (1973)
  • Perfect Strangers (1984)
  • The House of Blue Light (1987)
  • The Battle Rages On (1993)
  • Purpendicular (1996)
  • Abandon (1998)
  • Bananas (2003)
  • Rapture of the Deep (2005)

As Ian Gillan Band/Gillan

  • Clear Air Turbulence
  • Scarabus
  • Live At The Budokan
  • Gillan
  • Mr. Universe
  • Glory Road
  • Future Shock
  • Double Trouble
  • Magic


With Black Sabbath

  • Born Again (1983)


With Roger Glover

  • Accidentally On Purpose


With The Javelins

  • Sole Agency And Representation


On his own

  • Jesus Christ Superstar (1970)
  • Naked Thunder
  • Toolbox
  • Dreamcatcher

External link

  • Gillan

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