Deep Purple, "Smoke on the Water" (From Machine Head, 1972) The king of hard-rock riffs from the moment it was introduced on Deep Purple's 1972 album Machine Head, "Smoke on the Water" has lost ...

Highway Star (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) From "Machine Head" 1972. G F C F G F C F G C Bb G Nobody gonna take my car Bb C Bb I'm gonna race it to the ground ...

Rock fans, and especially Deep Purple devotees ... band’s second to go platinum in America (after the 1972 classic Machine Head) and reached No.17 in a 32-week chart run there.

As a young teenager, this writer is eagerly looking forward to the morning of December 25, when among the presents under the tree will hopefully be a copy of Deep ... niche. Machine Head is a pivotal ...

Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan says Made In Japan tour was ‘a shock to the system’ - The 79-year-old lead singer was speaking to PA ahead of the band’s upcoming UK tour.

Vinyl sales have jumped in recent years as the format has come back in fashion which was helped by new releases by artists such as Taylor Swift, who recently announced that her 11th studio album ...

"It is the biggest piece of garbage that ever happened to mankind": Celtic Frost's Tom G. Warrior on Cold Lake ...

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

O2 ARENA, LONDON 6.11.24. Back in the early 1970s, Deep Purple were part of the ‘holy trinity’ of British heavy rock. The other two similarly anointed b ...

Or equally, a subtle shift in the space-time continuum would find him installed as frontman with Deep Purple. But in the ...

Dean recorded this for the 2019 David Berman tribute album, but it has now been reworked with Britta Phillips and Sonic Boom’s pixie dust. “David Berman’s Purple Mountains is one of the ...