“Normally, we bring in a couple of songs and it’s hard work to make them compatible with the traditional Deep Purple songs ..

These incredibly influential albums from the 1960s changed the world of rock music forever, in their own unique ways.

including ‘Fireball’ and ‘Machine Head,’ which spawned the classic song ‘Smoke on the Water’ in 1972. By the end of the decade, Deep Purple would lose guitarist Ritchie Blackmore ...

Ritchie Blackmore was sworn to secrecy from the founder of Marshall Amplification about how he got his extra loud amp.