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The usual perception of early Deep Purple is that it was a band with a lot of potential in search of a direction. And that might be true of their debut LP…
Spitfire released the CD version of this concert that Deep Purple filmed in London. While a solid live album with an interesting and rare performance, Live at the Royal Albert Hall…
Bananas has every sign of being a disappointment. Jon Lord’s grandiose keyboards were always a focus but he’s gone, it’s released in the heady age of Radiohead…
Although it shook the band’s fan base to its core, the acrimonious departure of vocalist Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover served to rejuvenate Deep Purple in…
Nobody’s Perfect is a live album released in 1988 by Deep Purple. It was recorded on their The House of Blue Light tour during 1987/88…
Deep Purple continued cranking out new albums into the late ’90s, despite diminished audiences and little attention from the media. But as long as they continued…
Deep Purple had kicked off the ’70s with a new lineup and a string of brilliant albums that quickly established them (along with fellow British giants…
Though it was considered a disappointment upon its release (indeed, its production was much too sleek at times, and it lacked the creative daring of…
Twenty-eight years after the band’s inception, Deep Purple venture into the most adventurous album of their storied career. With guitar virtuoso Steve Morse…
Perfect Strangers is the eleventh studio album by Deep Purple, released in October 1984. It represents the first album recorded by the reformed…
Led Zeppelin’s fourth album, Black Sabbath’s Paranoid, and Deep Purple’s Machine Head have stood the test of time as the Holy Trinity of English hard rock and heavy metal…
Come Hell or High Water is a CD and DVD by the hard rock group Deep Purple. It was recorded on October 16, 1993 in “Hans-Martin-Schleyer-Halle” in…
One of Deep Purple’s four indispensable albums (the others being In Rock, Machine Head, and Burn), 1971′s Fireball saw the band broadening out from the…
Come Taste the Band is the tenth studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple originally released in October 1975. The album was co-produced…
After satisfying all of their classical music kinks with keyboard player Jon Lord’s overblown Concerto for Group and Orchestra, Deep Purple’s soon…
Since its re-formation with its classic lineup in 1984, Deep Purple were one of those veteran bands that made its money playing its well-known songs…
The cover image of Stormbringer is based on a photo. On July 8, 1927 a tornado near the town of Jasper, Minnesota was photographed by Lucille Handberg…
This is a record that even those who aren’t Deep Purple fans can listen to two or three times in one sitting — but then, this wasn’t much like any other album…
Deep Purple’s 2005 album Rapture of the Deep generally maintains the quality of 2003′s surprisingly sturdy Bananas. It’s the second release from the re-energized…
Several months after the innovative remake of “You Keep Me Hanging On,” England’s answer to Vanilla Fudge, was this early version of Deep Purple, which featured…
Deep Purple went through more than their share of personnel changes over the years. In 1990, their lineup consisted of guitarist Ritchie Blackmore…
The release is cause for celebration amongst Purple fans due to the rarity of material. Extensive interviews with keyboardist Jon Lord and bassist Glenn Hughes tell the tale of a…
