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"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
Why I ❤️ Deep Purple's Burn, by Matt Sorum
Former Guns N' Roses drummer Matt Sorum on the speed of Ian Paice, why drums fell out of fashion, and how Nirvana brought them back
Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Joe Bonamassa and Glenn Hughes deliver killer covers of Deep Purple classics Highway Star and Burn
The Voice Of Rock revisits the Deep Purple back catalogue on US tour, and holy s**t
"It appeared that he had fallen down an elevator shaft, but we knew that he was murdered": the traumatic story of Deep Purple's visit to Indonesia in 1975
At the beginning of the Come Taste The Band tour, Deep Purple stopped off in Jakarta to play a show en route to Japan. It did not go well
"We did have a couple of séances, but I didn't see any ghosts, though I know the place was haunted": Glenn Hughes on the recording of Deep Purple's Burn
Bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes on joining Deep Purple, almost joining Rainbow, leaving the Dead Daisies, the future of Black Country Communion, and 50 years of Burn
"I’d be thinking, Behind this cocaine, either someone is dead, or someone is going to be killed": That time a Los Angeles drug dealer asked former Deep Purple vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes to look after five kilos of coke
"You’d trip over cocaine in my house there was so much of it”: for Glenn Hughes, the late '80s were a dark time
