Deep Purple

Deep Purple guitarist and solo artist Simon McBride picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names a band that really should be bigger

Ian Gillan reinvented himself as a NWOBHM-era star with Gillan

Travelling the world with his Walkman, the young Australian moved on from his family’s opera and folk to Rush, Steven Wilson, Brian Eno, Francis Dunnery and Anathema, and adopted his chequered headband in honour of Cheap Trick

SAS Rogue Heroes is back with a bang. Hundreds and thousands of bangs, actually

Icons and a-listers, retro bangers and psychedelic party-starters, firebrands, punks and alt.rockers - they’re all here

Some albums are just so good that they come at us again, loaded with extra tracks and other goodies to give the original an extra bang for your buy-it-again buck