It’s June 26th and here are some reasons why this day matters in rock history: In 2003, rock legends Deep Purple were deluged with e-mails after they announced that their new album was slated to be ...

Def Leppard, with special guest Collective Soul, plays Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort in Mount Pleasant on July 18.

It’s June 21st and here are some reasons why this day matters in rock history: In 1975, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore quit Deep Purple to form his own group, Rainbow. In 2000, 39-year old Karen McNeil, ...

Deep Purple found their heavier sound with their 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock.It was the first to feature Ian Gillian on vocals and Roger Glover on bass. Then, they released Machine Head in ...

“Deep Purple” came out in September 1963 and reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart that November. ... He played saxophone on John Lennon’s 1975 album of classic rock covers, ...

The 1960s were donezo, and Ritchie Blackmore was ready to break down preconceived notions of rock music and rebuild it. Deep Purple In Rock is an absolute gem of an album, complete with elements ...

I Deep Purple vocalist (and subsequent recluse) Rod Evans on vocals, who is on the band’s second of three albums as well. But it’s the 1972 debut that gets the glory, framed as a sort of ...

Indeed, with Gillan at the helm, the band shifted away from psychedelic and progressive rock for a harder sound on the albums “Deep Purple in Rock” (1970) and “Fireball” (1971).

Last month Deep Purple released its 23rd studio album, ... going toe to toe with countrymen and fellow Rock Hall inductees Yes for evenings filled with bona fide rock classics… * Glover, 78 ...

Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan: ... hammering out career-defining albums (1970’s Deep Purple in Rock, 1972’s Machine Head) at the vanguard of a new generation of hard rock pioneers.

From this line-up, Gillan, Paice and Glover played on the career-defining albums Deep Purple In Rock (1970) and Machine Head (1972).