It’s June 3rd and here are some reasons why this day matters in rock history: In 1974, Paul McCartney & Wings had the number one song in the country with “Band on the Run.” In 1972, Jethro Tull ...

Ronnie James Dio's albums with Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell and Dio helped define what a hard rock singer can ...

Look no further than Black Sabbath's Born Again for proof of Deep Purple's heavy metal credentials. It's the only album the metal icons recorded with Deep Purple's vocalist Ian Gi ...

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 ...

The rapper, who is facing murder-for-hire charges, released his newest album, “Deep Thoughts,” Friday. Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times file Share While jailed in Los Angeles on murder-for-hire ...

Deep Purple In Rock is an absolute gem of an album, complete with elements of hard rock and heavy metal. “Into The Fire” is a fan favorite, but “Child In Time” was one of the first ...

The cover of Metal Hammer issue 237 featuring Corey Taylor of Stone Sour/Slipknot The album ... end of Deep Purple. But it wasn’t. By the early 1980s, Ian Gillan had returned to rock’n ...

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, “=1,” its fifth with producer ... going toe to toe with countrymen and fellow Rock Hall inductees Yes for evenings filled with bona ...

“We did the show on a stage on the lake that was absolutely spectacular,” says Purple ... if new album track “I’m Saying Nothin’” is a reaction to the danger of rock stars expressing ...

From this line-up, Gillan, Paice and Glover played on the career-defining albums Deep Purple In Rock (1970) and Machine Head (1972). They also featured on many of the band’s best-known songs ...

Alongside their two great peers, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they totally embodied British rock, and in 1975 ... help of studio trickery. Deep Purple made this album with Bob Ezrin, the ...