The powerhouse frontman shared his thoughts on the 1972 double live LP with the U.K.-based National Album Day. This year's ...

While boasting canonical proto-metal records behind him, Deep Purple and guitarist Ritchie Blackmore highlighted one 'classicalbum he particularly loathed.

But what about the less-conflicted children of Woodstock? The beer-drinkers and hell-raisers, the clock-punching ham’n’eggers in dirty denim, living for the weekend? What was the colour of hoi polloi ...

Ritchie Blackmore may have been dissatisfied with many of Deep Purple's records over the years, but none more than the album that brought them early attention.

That was the top four live 1970s albums on which the two AI tools agreed. Each went on to list some other albums that fit that criteria of best ever live albums from the 1970s. Let's take a look at ...

At first glance, Don Airey might not strike you as a rockstar. Even in the 1980s, when the current Deep Purple organist and keyboardist played for Rainbow and Ozzy Osbourne, he didn’t fit the ...

In 1968, Blackmore co-founded Deep Purple with keyboardist Jon Lord, drummer Ian Paice, singer Rod Evans, and bassist Nick Simper. The group was initially heavily influenced by psychedelia and ...