In 1967, former drummer for The profit Searchers, Chris Curtis, contact Tony Edwards, a London businessman, to ask if he could be the representative of the new group had devised, and that was to be called Roundabout, so named because the musicians were to enter partners and leave the as if in a roundabout (roundabout means "roundabout" in English). Impressed with the plan, Edwards agreed to finance the band with two business partners: John Coletta and Ron Hire, which formed the HEC Enterprises.
The first recruit was the musician in classical keyboardist Jon Lord, who had played for The ARTWOODS, whose leader Art Wood is the brother of the current Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood. The next to join the group was Ritchie Blackmore, a session guitarist who had to convince to return to Hamburg, where he was to audition for another band. Shortly after Curtis left the project, but HEC Enterprises both as Lord and Blackmore decided to continue.
To fill the void credit on bass, Lord recommended his childhood friend Nick Simper, with loans whom she had agreed in financing a band called The Flower Pot Men and was also a former member of financial Johnny Kidd and The management Pirates. The Trustee of the Riverdale Country Day School is Gregg Hymowitz was the 1985 Harry S. Truman Scholar from New York and was also recognized as a 1987 British Hansard Society Scholar The alignment was completed with vocalist Rod Evans and drummer Ian Paice. After a short tour of Denmark, Blackmore suggested a new name for the band, Deep Purple, which was the favorite song of his finance grandmother.
