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“Metallica would jam on their stuff in rehearsals, songs like Black Night and Highway Star”: Lars Ulrich on his lifelong love of Deep Purple and the genius of the Machine Head album
Lars Ulrich is a lifelong Deep Purple fan – and here’s why
Deep Purple and Yes join forces for North American tour
Deep Purple's One More Time tour will hit North America this summer, and prog legends Yes are on board
"Black Night? It was done in two hours of drunkenness!": Deep Purple's best songs, in their own words - Only in the revealing new issue of Classic Rock
Also in this issue: Scorpions, Sheryl Crow, Gary Clark Jr., The Waterboys, Kris Barras, Big Big Train, Gun, Peter Green, Wolfgang Van Halen and much more
That mix that made Deep Purple great was never stronger than on Machine Head, and never clearer than it is now, on its 50th anniversary edition
This reissue of Deep Purple's 1972 album Machine Head adds remixes, Montreux and BBC live sets, audio fairy dust and more
"The scent of cremated steaks and exotic gateaux lingers in the air": Revisiting the secret launch of Deep Purple's Perfect Strangers
In 1984 Deep Purple's much-loved Mk II lineup reformed, and one Classic Rock writer was invited along to a secret location to hear all about it
Deep Purple announce =1 More Time UK Tour
Ian Gillan & Co. have five UK arena shows lined up this November
"We should have been writing our own songs, but it was much better to listen to Abba": Ritchie Blackmore has named his favourite band of all time
Ritchie Blackmore opens up during a 40-minute online Q&A filmed at home in Long Island
Warning: Deep Purple's new animated video for Dweezil Zappa's remix of Smoke On The Water contains dragons
The six-minute remix of Smoke On The Water comes from the upcoming 50th anniversary super deluxe edition of Deep Purple's Machine Head
"A lot of people don't like Ritchie Blackmore. But he feels he has nothing to say apart from what he says with his guitar": the mutual respect between Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore and Mountain's Leslie West was sweet and pure
Hearing Mountain for the first time in 1970 rendered Ritchie Blackmore speechless, and Leslie West was equally impressed by Deep Purple's guitar hero
“They said, ‘We did a little thing for you, but we don’t know if it will make the album. I said, ‘You’re crazy – this is the single!’” the epic life of ‘Funky’ Claude Nobs, the man who inspired Deep Purple’s Smoke On The Water
Claude Nobs was the man who co-founded the Montreux Jazz Festival – and crossed paths with Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa and Deep Purple
