“This is awful. Dreadful stuff”: Five bands Ritchie Blackmore hated with a passion
Not nearly the refined rock and roll.
Deep Purple
“A poor man’s Led Zeppelin”: The classic rock band Angus Young hated with a passion
“Geez, this is ridiculous.”
“Hated the thought”: the album Deep Purple never wanted to release
“We had something rather wonderful…”
“The definitive hard rock riff”, according to Lars Ulrich
The founder of Metallica had to get his guts from somewhere.
The guitarist George Harrison wanted to join The Beatles
“I’d never heard of them, and I knew they were going nowhere.”
The song that rendered Ritchie Blackmore speechless: “Such an amazing, big, hard sound”
A groundbreaking anthem…
Deep Purple to play special show at the Royal Albert Hall in London
The band are returning to the historic old haunt.
