Deep Purple will celebrate their landmark 1972 album Machine Head with a "super deluxe" reissue containing previously unreleased live footage, multiple mixes and remastered sound. Machine Head: Super ...

According to the Deep Purple fan site, Highway Star, there will be a newly remastered vinyl version of 'Machine Head' as well as a remixed 'In Concert '72' vinyl coming to stores. The 'Machine Head' ...

The dramatic tale of Deep Purple’s sixth album has rightly been etched into rock music folklore for more than half a century. Frankly, if you haven’t heard it, then you’re probably reading the wrong ...

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 ...

The band's most famous piece of work, Machine Head, is celebrating it's belated 50th anniversary and set to release a new edition with remastered versions. "We are a very unplanned band. One high led ...

Deep Purple is a deeply conflicting band for most rock music fans. On one hand, you have to say that their music is ...

Two other Deep Purple and hard rock classics appear on the album. "Highway Star" is the album opener and it is a high octane blast. Keyboardist Lord and particularly guitarist Blackmore take on two of ...

Nearly 45 years after Deep Purple was assembled, some of rock and metal's most celebrated acts such as Metallica, Iron Maiden and Black Label Society have paid tribute to the legendary act in the ...

No strangers to turbulence, the band’s personnel at the time of Machine Head – a line-up completed by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, bassist Roger Glover, and keyboardist Jon Lord – differed, anyway, ...

The four power chords that open Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” are still one of hard rock’s most recognizable riffs. In the early 1970s, the fanfare and song touched a primal nerve with many ...

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

Deep Purple’s fearless 1975 studio album Come Taste The Band reaches its 50th anniversary, celebrating the daring Mark IV line-up with Tommy Bolin.