Longtime Classic Rock stalwarts Deep Purple's music and career is explored over seven decades, album-by-album.
The Dixie Dregs founder enjoyed side quests with Kansas and Lynyrd Skynyrd before he joined Purple in 1994, just as Ritchie ...
Ian Gillan has lost count of how many times he’s been asked to sing on other people’s songs. “Thousands,” says the Deep ...
Black Sabbath and Deep Purple had a harrowing few minutes on a plane flying from California back to their native U.K.
MADRID, SPAIN - JUNE 13: Roger Glover, Ian Gillan and Simon McBride of the English rock band Deep Purple perform in concert during Alma Festival on June 13, 2024 in Madrid, Spain. Deep Purple's =1 ...
Deep Purple established a reputation over their many years of existence as one of the leading lights of the heavy metal scene. Where others have fallen off that path, this band has remained stalwarts ...
Ian Gillan only found out that a classic Deep Purple track had been used by the producers of Stranger Things when he was ...
“All over the internet, they talk about the influence of Vanilla Fudge,” Appice says. “If Vanilla Fudge had stuck together, ...
The January 1975 version of Australia's Sunbury Festival was already facing difficulties that threatened its future. Then AC/DC and Deep Purple got into a fight backstage. The organizers knew they ...
Deep Purple consolidated their standing as one of the planet's fastest rising hard-rock propositions with the July 9, 1971 release of Fireball. The album followed the previous year's watershed In Rock ...
Get the inside track from Roisin O'Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This “We did the show on a stage on the lake that was absolutely spectacular,” says Purple singer Ian Gillan, ...