Frontman of heavy metal band, playing in Dubai on Thursday, reflects on 1966 Casino du Liban residency that helped form his ...

Deep Purple is a deeply conflicting band for most rock music fans. On one hand, you have to say that their music is inescapable, and captures something exquisite about the spirit of the 1960s and ...

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Ian Gillan's says growing vision problems could mean retirement from Deep Purple is "not far off." Now 80, Gillan is still performing with the group he joined in 1969, completing a huge tour late last ...

Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan has revealed he is losing his eyesight and has said retirement is “not far off”. The legendary singer, 80, last played a full run of shows with the band in November ...

From The Beatles to Bob Dylan and Nina Simone, we're peering into Jimi Hendrix's record collection, displayed at the Hendrix ...

Bands fall apart every day – but these splits were absolute carnage: betrayal, addiction, lawsuits, and wounds that still ...

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A number of landmarks across Yorkshire will be illuminated in purple to help raise awareness of pancreatic cancer. Wainhouse Tower, in Halifax, and York's city walls will be lit up later for the rest ...

For Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, the playwright who wrote the book for the musical version of “Purple Rain,” theater is a place of solitude. “I like to think of the theater as a gym for the emotions,” he ...

A Chinese research vessel docked in the Cook Islands Saturday as it probed the Pacific nation's deep-sea mining potential, a fledgling industry of mounting interest to both Beijing and Washington. The ...