The January 1975 version of Australia's Sunbury Festival was already facing difficulties that threatened its future. Then AC/DC and Deep Purple got into a fight backstage. The organizers knew they ...

Black Sabbath and Deep Purple had a harrowing few minutes on a plane flying from California back to their native U.K.

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An iconic musician has announced his retirement following a career of more than 50 years, which included an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In a video message shared on Thursday, Deep ...

Deep Purple consolidated their standing as one of the planet's fastest rising hard-rock propositions with the July 9, 1971 release of Fireball. The album followed the previous year's watershed In Rock ...

The record is set to drop on July 19 via earMUSIC. It also marks the rock veteran’s first full-length release since 2021, when they dropped the covers album ‘Turning To Crime’, and first LP of ...

Hard rock / proto-metal legends Deep Purple began their long goodbye in 2019, and now they’ve announced the ‘1 More Time Tour,’ a US amphitheater tour celebrating over 50 years of “Smoke on the Water” ...

Metallica's Lars Ulrich has proclaimed Deep Purple's Made in Japan as the best hard rock live album ever in a new promotional video hyping the reissue of the classic 1972 performance. Though Lars ...

Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan hinted that retirement may not be far off, despite his commitment to a European tour for 2026. Gillan revealed that he has to rely on peripheral vision to use his ...

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