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 ...

Deep Purple will release a new album titled =1 on July 19. According to a press release, the title "symbolizes the idea that in a world growing ever more complex, everything eventually simplifies down ...

On this day (April 22) in 1972, Deep Purple scored a No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart with their sixth studio album Machine Head. The album contained “Smoke on the Water” and “Highway Star,” which would ...

=1 is Deep Purple’s fifth consecutive album to be produced by lauded studio whiz Bob Ezrin, whose collaborative relationship with the band began with Now What?! in 2013. As explained in an early press ...

Ritchie Blackmore is a musician who was always open to exploring different styles of music, and this led to some records of his getting overlooked.

Ritchie Blackmore has previously heaped praise on Steve Morse, but the man who took his place in Deep Purple had a difficult job of impressing the group’s fans as he tried to put his spin on their ...

It’s very likely that Don Airey appears on several of your most treasured albums. The original keyboard kingpin, that’s Don on all the best post-Dio Rainbow albums. That’s Don on Ozzy’s Blizzard Of ...

Metallica's Lars Ulrich has proclaimed Deep Purple's Made in Japan as the best hard rock live album ever in a new promotional video hyping the reissue of the classic 1972 performance. Though Lars ...