Deep Purple will celebrate their landmark 1972 album Machine Head with a "super deluxe" reissue containing previously unreleased live footage, multiple mixes and remastered sound. Machine Head: Super ...

Deep Purple's Machine Head was plagued with problems from the beginning. "It's a project that almost got destroyed before it even got started," bassist Roger Glover says in a very matter-of-fact ...

The pioneers of heavy metal – Deep Purple – released their sixth studio album Machine Head, 50 years ago on March 25. The lineup of the troupe at the time of Machine Head included Ritchie Blackmore on ...

The dramatic tale of Deep Purple’s sixth album has rightly been etched into rock music folklore for more than half a century. Frankly, if you haven’t heard it, then you’re probably reading the wrong ...

The band's most famous piece of work, Machine Head, is celebrating it's belated 50th anniversary and set to release a new edition with remastered versions. "We are a very unplanned band. One high led ...

Nearly 45 years after Deep Purple was assembled, some of rock and metal's most celebrated acts such as Metallica, Iron Maiden and Black Label Society have paid tribute to the legendary act in the ...

British rocker Jon Lord, former keyboardist for the band Deep Purple, died on July 16, Monday. He was 71 years old. A statement on Lord's official website says the Leicester, England-born musician ...

Steve Morse on how a noodle during one of Deep Purple's many tea breaks ended up on the album, and the mixed reception from ...

It's difficult to think of another band which has had as many distinct eras as Deep Purple, but Ian Gillan cites one album as ...

The four power chords that open Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” are still one of hard rock’s most recognizable riffs. In the early 1970s, the fanfare and song touched a primal nerve with many ...

DEEP PURPLE is to release a collection of their classic albums covering their superstar period from 1972 - 1977 and all on purple vinyl. Famed for being the loudest band in the world by the Guinness ...

Although Ritchie Blackmore wrote many classics with Deep Purple, there is one that embarrasses him more than any other.