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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Roger David Glover |
| Born | (1945-11-30) 30 November 1945 Brecon, Powys, Wales, United Kingdom |
| Genres | Hard rock, heavy metal, pop rock, blues rock, progressive rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, producer |
| Instruments | Bass guitar |
| Years active | 1960–present |
| Associated acts
Notable instruments: |
Deep Purple, Rainbow, Episode Six, Gillan & Glover, David Coverdale, Nazareth |
Roger David Glover (born 30 November 1945) is a British bassist, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the bassist for hard rock bands Deep Purple and Rainbow.
Born near Brecon, Wales, Glover moved with his family to St Helens before settling in the South Kensington area of London, at the age of ten. Around that time his interests started to shift towards rock music, and by the time he was thirteen Glover began playing guitar. He 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. The two left Episode Six in 1969 to join Deep Purple.
After spending four years with Deep Purple, where the band saw their most successful releases in the albums in Rock and Machine Head, Glover departed, along with Gillan, after Deep Purple’s second tour of Japan in the summer of 1973. Glover said “I wrote the riff to “Maybe I’m a Leo” after hearing John Lennon’s “How Do You Sleep?”.
Throughout the 1970s Glover produced albums by such acts as Judas Priest, Nazareth, Elf, Status Quo, the Ian Gillan Band and David Coverdale.
In 1974 Glover released his first solo album, The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast, and in 1978 his second, Elements.
From 1979 to 1984 he was the bassist, lyricist and producer for Ritchie Blackmore’s solo band, Rainbow, working on four of the group’s studio albums.
In 1983 he recorded his third solo album, Mask, released the next year. When in April 1984 Deep Purple reformed, Glover returned to his old band where he has remained for the last three decades.
Roger Glover uses Vigier Bass Guitars, SWR heads and cabinets, Picato and Ernie Ball strings.
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