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Ow Ow Ow, Ow Ow Whaow, Ow Ow Ow...Wha-aa-ow. That simple G-minor melody, supposedly inspired by Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (or perhaps Brazilian composer Carlos Lyra) and played with the tone of a Fender Stratocaster doubled by a Hammond B3 organ, is unquestionably the most famous rock-guitar riff. The apotheosis of 1970s hard-rock, the ubiquitous "Smoke on the Water" is also the unlikely story of the song's creation and the high-water mark of long-running UK rock band Deep P...

Till Lindemann picks her favorite metal and rock music bands. Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann named his favorite and best seven music bands.

Despite being one of the forbearers of heavy metal, Deep Purple gets its name from a vintage pop song

Rod Evans, original lead singer of hard-rocking Deep Purple, walked away from the music business in the late 1970s. He didn’t even show up for the ceremony in 2016 when the band was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Evans’ post-Purple career took some strange twists, including signing on for a bogus and disastrous “New Deep Purple” tour and co-founding Capricorn-recording artists Captain Beyond. Fiona McQuarrie examines Deep Purple’s and Evans’ musical past for PKM

Today In Music History - October 7th, news, music news, Ireland

Exclusive Interview by Karen Beishuizen Nick Simper is a bass guitarist and co-founder of Deep Purple with Jon Lord, Richie Blackmore and Bobby Woodman. After his departure he founded the band Warhorse. He works together with Vienna-based band “Nasty Habits” with whom he will perform at The Reigen,

A racing pulse, shrieking organ fills, impossibly catchy chorus… Hush blasted out of speakers in the summer of 1968, taking the newly formed Deep Purple into the upper reaches of the US chart. First recorded by American country-soul singer Billy Joe Royal, who’d been gifted the song by his friend Joe South, Hush came to define early Purple in its mercurial fusion of psychedelic R&B and hard-nosed rock. Purple’s Hush might not have happened at all...

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