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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
"Bonzo was a dear friend of mine, and I think we might've been listening to a little Led Zeppelin": Deep Purple's track-by-track guide to Burn
David Coverdale, Glenn Hughes and Ian Paice reveal the secrets of Burn, Deep Purple's first album with the Mark III line-up
"I'm not too struck on Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton, I never saw what was in Clapton at all". In 1975, Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore was asked for his thoughts on his peers: he did not hold back
Blackmore on Hendrix, Beck, Page, Clapton, Townshend and more
"Towards the end it was not pretty. I scraped myself off the walls of insanity. I was barking like a dog": the last days of Deep Purple
On July 19, 1976, Deep Purple officially split up. The ending was horrible, marked by addiction and jealousy
