The story of how Deep Purple wrote their 1972 classic “Smoke on the Water” has finally been visualized. To commemorate the deluxe reissue of the band’s sixth album Machine Head, out March 29, Deep ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Mariano Regidor/Getty Images Deep Purple have paid homage to Smoke on The Water's origins by returning to where it all ...

Many rock albums receive a “deluxe edition” treatment nowadays, but few are as deserving as Deep Purple’s 1972 tour de force, Machine Head. The album is getting a super deluxe reissue on March 29th, ...

Traditionally you only make music videos for new songs, but every now and then something truly weird happens. To celebrate the new Super Deluxe Edition of their 1972 album Machine Head, heavy metal ...

Deep Purple’s classic “Smoke on the Water” has been preserved in DNA for UNESCO’s Memory of the World Archive. With help from Twist Bioscience and Microsoft, the organization led an experimental ...

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band rocks Jiffy Lube Live on Saturday as the “Highway Stars” round the Capitol Beltway for their “Smoke on the Water” 50th anniversary tour with fire in the sky over the ...

Deep Purple has zero plans to slow down. The rock band is releasing their 21st studio album, “Whoosh!,” on Aug. 7, making it their third release produced by Bob Ezrin, of Alice Cooper and Pink Floyd ...

Deep Purple's current tour, "The Long Goodbye," will stop at Milwaukee's Riverside Theater on Sunday, Oct. 13. Before then, bassist Roger Glover talked with OnMilwaukee about the band's highs and lows ...

Along with Blue Cheer, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, Deep Purple helped pioneer heavy metal in the early 1970s. The British band’s “Smoke on the Water,” with its commanding guitar-riff opener, ...

British rock band Deep Purple did not rip off the Catholic Church with “Smoke on the Water.” EDWIN REICHERT AP Q: Isn’t the musical hook from “Smoke on the Water” really a rip-off of the Eucharistic ...

There's a Deep Purple tribute album on the horizon called Re-Machined: A Tribute to Machine Head, which, as you can imagine, is a reimagining of the group's classic album Machine Head. The Flaming ...