Roger Glover

Roger Glover
Glover performing live with Deep Purple in 2013
Background information
Birth name	Roger David Glover
Born	(1945-11-30) 30 November 1945 (age 71) 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	Deep Purple, Rainbow, Episode Six, Gillan & Glover, David Coverdale.

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. Glover wrote the guitar riff on "Maybe I'm a Leo".

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.