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Deep Purple’s Mark II line-up posing for a photograph in 1972
A metal fan’s guide to Deep Purple, one of hard rock’s original Holy Trinity

By Ken McIntyre Published

Along with Sabbath and Zeppelin, Deep Purple helped craft the primordial goop that spawned metal

Bands & Artists
Ritchie Blackmore smashing his guitar onstage
Deep Purple’s 25 maddest moments

By Geoff Barton Published

Life in Deep Purple has never been dull

Bands & Artists
Deep Purple classic line up and an inset of George Harrison
The night an ex-Beatle gatecrashed a Deep Purple show for an impromptu jam

By Classic Rock Last updated

At a gig in Sydney in 1984, Deep Purple were joined by surprise guest Arnold Grove – aka former Beatles guitarist George Harrison

Bands & Artists
The Led Zeppelins - AI generated image
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

Music
Terry Reid headshot
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

Biographies
Deep Purple posing for a photograph in 1975
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

Albums
Deep Purple backstage on the Perfect Strangers Tour in Australia
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

Interviews
Ritchie Blackmore studio portrait, June 1975
The Ritchie Blackmore albums you should definitely listen to - but none of them are by Deep Purple

By Paul Elliott Published

Buying guide 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

Buying guide
Deep Purple in 1969
Every Deep Purple album ranked, from worst to best

By Geoff Barton Published

Buying guide 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

Buying guide
Twiggy onatage at the Butterfly Ball and (inset) Roger Glover
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

Biographies
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