But how much music Deep Purple has made lives on in album form ... they decide the best thing to do is to play the main riff from "Pomp and Circumstance". I wouldn’t be surprised if you don ...

After more than 50 years of making music, these are Ian Paice's favourite Deep Purple songs ... “It came about when we tried to get Ritchie to play a Chuck Berry tune. He just wouldn ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever heard the story about the night Christopher Cross filled in for Ritchie Blackmore in Deep Purple and wondered if it were true, we can assume you it is true.