Ticket price for Deep Purple concert in Yerevan to go up starting Feb. 9

PanARMENIAN.Net -
Tickets for the concert of Deep Purple legendary rock band due in Yerevan on May 25, 2010 will be sold at higher than previously announced price.



Presently, the prices range from AMD 15 000 to AMD 55 000.



Deep Purple’s full line up of Ian Gillan – vocals, Steve Morse – guitar, Roger Glover – bass, Don Airey – keyboards and Ian Paice – drums will be performing at Yerevan’s Sports and Concert Complex.



Rights for exclusive photo coverage of Deep Purple’s concert and visit to Yerevan, as well as further sale of photos belong to PanARMENIAN Photo.



Organizers of the event are VIBROGRAPHUS company and ARMRUSGAZPROM CJSC.



Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorise themselves as any one genre. The band also incorporated classical music, blues-rock, pop and progressive rock elements. Once listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's loudest band, they have sold over 100 million albums worldwide. Deep Purple were ranked #22 on VH1's Greatest Artists of Hard Rock program.



The band have gone through many line-up changes and an eight-year hiatus (1976–84). The 1968–76 line-ups are commonly labeled Mark I, II, III and IV. Their second and most commercially successful line-up featured Ian Gillan (vocals), Ritchie Blackmore (guitar), Jon Lord (keyboards), Roger Glover (bass) and Ian Paice (drums). This line-up was active from 1969 to 1973 and was revived from 1984 to 1989 and again in 1993, before the rift between Blackmore and other members became unbridgeable. The current line-up including guitarist Steve Morse has been much more stable, though Lord's retirement in 2002 has left Paice as the only original member.