In 1968, Blackmore co-founded Deep Purple with keyboardist Jon Lord, drummer Ian Paice, singer Rod Evans, and bassist Nick Simper. The group was initially heavily influenced by psychedelia and ...

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 ...

Although Ritchie Blackmore wrote many classics with Deep Purple, there is one that embarrasses him more than any other.

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 ...

Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan reveals of The Leona Graham Podcast that he never knew he had a rock voice. Growing up ...

It's difficult not to look at Wednesday night's Judas Priest/Deep Purple concert at Daily's Place as some sort of competition. Two British heavy metal titans, both well past their prime but not dead ...

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 ...

David Coverdale has always been associated with groups, even if he's the only constant. He was part of two Deep Purple lineups in just three years. Whitesnake, the act he formed next, has had more ...

Drummer Ian Paice is the only constant member amid the swirl of Deep Purple’s numerous line-up changes - Fin Costello/Redferns It says rather a lot about the music industry that when Deep Purple ...

BURGETTSTOWN -- His bandmates have dodged the question, though Steve Morse isn't coy. He says Deep Purple definitely is on its farewell tour. "This is the last time you'll get to see us," Morse said. ...