The Machine Head by Deep Purple album review covers the six-million-selling 1972 album recorded in hotel corridors after the Montreux Casino fire, containing Highway Star, Smoke on the Water, Lazy, and Space Truckin. Seven tracks. No filler. No compromise.
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The Fireball by Deep Purple album review covers the 1971 record that hit number 1 in the UK and has spent fifty years underestimated. More experimental than In Rock, more diverse than Machine Head, and the favorite Mark II album of Ian Gillan himself.
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The Deep Purple in Rock album review covers the 1970 landmark that launched the Mark II era: seven tracks recorded across London studios between extensive touring, producing Child in Time, Speed King, and one of the most important hard rock records ever made.
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The Shades of Deep Purple album review covers the debut that launched one of rock’s greatest careers: recorded in three days in May 1968, it gave the world Hush, Mandrake Root, and the first glimpse of the Lord-Blackmore axis that would define an era.
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Deep Purple Knocking at Your Back Door opened the 1984 Perfect Strangers album with seven minutes of proof that the Mark II lineup had lost nothing in eleven years apart. Here is the full story of how it was made, what the lyrics mean, and why it still matters.
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Deep Purple Perfect Strangers is one of the most powerful reunion anthems in hard rock history. Discover the story behind the 1984 classic from the Mark II lineup.
Deep Purple Soldier of Fortune is the most unexpected song in the band’s catalog, a stripped-back acoustic ballad that showed a side of Deep Purple nobody saw coming.
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Deep Purple Stormbringer is one of the most important songs in the band’s catalog — the track that defined the Mark III sound and pushed Ritchie Blackmore out the door.
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Deep Purple Burn arrived in 1974 and changed everything the band had built. Here is the full story behind one of the greatest hard rock songs ever recorded.
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Deep Purple Woman from Tokyo was written in Rome before the band had ever visited Japan. A burned-out lineup produced one of their most enduring songs. Here is the full story.
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Deep Purple Space Truckin closes Machine Head in four minutes and stretches to twenty in concert. The riff started with Batman. The song eventually went to actual space. Here is the full story.
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Deep Purple Lazy is a seven-minute blues jam recorded in a Montreux hotel corridor in 1971. Blackmore’s solo was voted top 100 of all time. Here is the full story.
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