12 Facts About Rod Evans

Roderic Evans was born on 19 January 1947 and is a retired British singer known as the original vocalist of the rock bands Deep Purple and Captain Beyond.

Rod Evans was born on 19 January 1947 in Edinburgh, Scotland but grew up in Slough, Buckinghamshire, England.

Rod Evans "had been fronting groups since he was 17" and played together with drummer Ian Paice in The Maze, formerly MI5.

Rod Evans was in a band called The Horizons in the mid-1960s.

In 1971, Rod Evans recorded a solo single for Capitol, titled "Hard To Be Without You".

Rod Evans left Captain Beyond and the music business after two albums.

Rod Evans acquired a medical degree and became a director of respiratory therapy at a California hospital until 1980.

In 1980, Rod Evans was approached by a management company that specialized in the unscrupulous and frequently legally actionable practice of reforming groups with a minimum of original members, often in violation of trademark and contractual law.

Rod Evans himself claimed in September 1980 that his former Deep Purple bandmates Jon Lord and Ian Paice had been contacted to participate, but both were uninterested.

Rod Evans has not appeared publicly since the 1980 court case and his current whereabouts have been of considerable interest to fans of early Deep Purple online since at least the late 1990s.

Caldwell similarly confirmed in September 2017 that Rod Evans was "doing great", adding that Rod Evans, who is married to another respiratory therapist, was residing in Northern California and had no plans to perform again.

Rod Evans was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Deep Purple in 2016 but, despite being invited, he did not attend the ceremony.