Roger David Glover was born on 30 November 1945 and is a Welsh bassist, songwriter, and record producer.
17 Facts About Roger Glover
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Roger Glover is best known as a member of the hard rock bands Deep Purple and Rainbow.
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Around that time his interests started to shift towards rock music, and by the time he was thirteen Roger Glover began playing guitar.
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Roger Glover later moved to the North London district of Pinner, and while at Harrow County School for Boys he formed his first band, Madisons, with a group of friends; in time this merged with a rival band to become Episode Six, a band which later featured Glover's future Deep Purple bandmate, vocalist Ian Gillan.
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Roger Glover spent four years with Deep Purple, during which the band saw their most successful releases in the albums in Rock, Fireball, Machine Head, Who Do We Think We Are and the live album Made in Japan.
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Roger Glover is credited with developing the title for the band's iconic "Smoke on the Water" song, thus inspiring the song's lyrics which were written by Ian Gillan.
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Roger Glover says the title came to him when he awoke from a dream two days after the famous fire over Lake Geneva.
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Roger Glover departed Deep Purple, along with Gillan, after the band's second tour of Japan in the summer of 1973.
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In 1974 Roger Glover released his first solo album, The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast, which generated the single "Love Is All", featuring lead vocals by Ronnie James Dio.
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When Deep Purple reformed in April 1984, Roger Glover returned to his old band where he has remained for the last three decades.
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Almost two decades later Roger Glover played with Gillan during Gillan's brief solo tour in 2006.
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In 2001 Roger Glover was among a host of bass players who contributed to Gov't Mule's double album The Deep End, recorded as a tribute to the late Allen Woody, Mule's original bassist.
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On 3 May 2003, in New Orleans, Roger Glover took part in a special concert performed by Gov't Mule featuring appearances from all bass players who had contributed to The Deep End album.
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In 2008 Roger Glover played bass on a charity single called "Lucy's Song", written and produced by David Domminney of Rogue Studios in London and available at iTunes.
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The band received a surprise reinforcement as Roger Glover "happened to be in the neighbourhood" and joined them on stage.
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Roger Glover played Fender Precision, Fender Mustang and Rickenbacker 4001 basses during his early years with Deep Purple.
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Previously Roger Glover has let many of his pictures be auctioned in other galleries for charitable purposes, but this was the first large-scale presentation of his work.