Ritchie Blackmore was out, US hotshot Tommy Bolin was in and Deep Purple’s Mk IV line-up were about to make the most ...

Blackmore also invited Reid to join Deep Purple, but whether Tel was in the frame the Mk I ... Blackmore had a terrible job ...

Ritchie Blackmore was always excited to hear new music, and there was one band so good they stunned him into silence.

With this scrupulously engineered show, Deep Purple once again proved themselves to be the quintessential prog-adjacent hard rock band, writes Paul Whitelaw ...

There’s an old adage in sport: that first is everything, and second is nothing. But for the members of Europe, being the ...

Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan has said seeing the “undiluted culture” of Japan while on tour in the early 1970s made him see ...

They were that good. While most bands of their generation seem content to sit on their laurels and live off their past ...

Many rock groups have collapsed or lost members over the years due to in-fighting and legendary slanging matches, and Deep Purple were certainly no strangers to this situation. At the heart of this ...

Hard rock pioneers Deep Purple are about to embark upon a five-date UK arena tour to coincide with the release of their 23rd ...

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Don Airey and Simon McBride are currently in the midst of a massive tour of arenas across the UK. They’ve only got one London date in the diary – here’s everything ...

When director Logan Hayden was considering this year's halftime show for the Windber Area High School marching band, he said, ...