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Listen to a version of Led Zeppelin II that sounds like it was made in the 1950s
By Fraser Lewry published
And we still don't have personal jetpacks

An introduction to Terry Reid, the man who could have fronted Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple
By Geoff Barton published
Unfairly framed as rock’s ultimate nearly man, Terry Reid chose to take his own path, and he's still going strong

How Deep Purple split from Ritchie Blackmore and made a funky masterpiece in Come Taste The Band
By Geoff Barton published
Ritchie Blackmore was out, US hotshot Tommy Bolin was in and Deep Purple’s Mk IV line-up were about to make the most under-rated album of their career

Deep Purple on chemistry, magic, and the birth of Perfect Strangers
By Geoff Barton last updated
We travel back in time to 1984 and talk to the reformed Deep Purple as the ready themselves to release comeback album Perfect Strangers

The Ritchie Blackmore albums you should definitely listen to - but none of them are by Deep Purple
By Paul Elliott published
A guitarist who helped define the sound of a genre, both pre- and post- Deep Purple, Ritchie Blackmore has a formidable back catalogue of classics

Every Deep Purple album ranked, from worst to best
By Geoff Barton published
Updated Deep Purple's albums ranked, from patchy Purple to purple patches, from iconic albums to the one Ritchie Blackmore dubbed "cattle grazing" to the one with the new chap

The night Roger Glover assembled three Deep Purple singers and a cast of stars for the Butterfly Ball
By Paul Rees published
When Roger Glover was asked to soundtrack a film based on a poem by a 19th century botanist, little did he know that soon it would become a one-off live extravaganza

Terminally ill grandmother loses £140,000 to scammer pretending to be Ritchie Blackmore
By Fraser Lewry published
The victim, who is suffering from cancer, went to school with the former Deep Purple guitarist
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