Bob Daisley has posted on Youtube three promo videos for the Long Live Rock’n'Roll album. They all appear to be excellent quality, albeit the band is obviously not playing live (look for Blackmore in his typical fashion barely even pretending to […]

Opeth’s lead singer and guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt tells The Highway Star how the band came to dress their new live album and DVD in a sleeve that pays tribute to Deep Purple’s original Concerto for Group and Orchestra from 1969. […]

Guitar effects company TC Electronic has posted a couple of videos providing inside look into the effect setup for both Steve Morse and Don Airey.

While the next DEEP PURPLE album still seems to be  far, far away, a new Purple-related side-project faces the light of day: Steve Morse  joined forces with 22 year old Sarah Spencer to release a vocal album under the “Angelfire”-banner. […]

A complete video of the 1974 Windows performance has appeared on Youtube. It was perhaps the most experimental of Jon’s work and people tend to either love it or hate it (myself falling firmly into the former category). This is […]

We’ve got further details on the bonus DVD that will be included with the Deepest Purple anniversary reissue. It is still work in progress, so things may and probably will change.

Tracklist:

1. Hush (Playboy After Dark, 1968)
2. Speed King (Vicky Leandros show, German […]

Glenn Hughes has decided he wants to spend the last third of his career playing rock music. The kind of music that earned him his fame in the early 70s, first with Trapeze and later Deep Purple. The vehicle that […]

This is a concert report from Heaven And Hell’s tribute to Ronnie James Dio this weekend at London’s High Voltage Festival.

A big cheer goes up from the crowd. We’re at London’s High Voltage Festival waiting for Heaven And Hell to […]

There is a new previously unreleased video of Deep Purple performing Black Night in Hamburg circa December 1970. The footage have been partially available on YouTube for some time now, but the release features complete song and in much better quality video […]

In his 1997 interview for the Japanese TV RB explains origins of riffs for several Purple classics. Some are very well publicized, some are not. Some connections are pretty obvious, while others not so much.