Deep Purple consolidated their standing as one of the planet's fastest rising hard-rock propositions with the July 9, 1971 release of Fireball. The album followed the previous year's watershed In ...

When Deep Purple was good, it was very good and there ... it felt as if the band was just going through the motions to finish the album. Fireball is the early Mark II album that I have listened ...

including ‘Fireball’ and ‘Machine Head,’ which spawned the classic song ‘Smoke on the Water’ in 1972. By the end of the decade, Deep Purple would lose guitarist Ritchie Blackmore ...

Yet for Deep Purple, like so many bands before and since, this breakthrough album brought a different set of problems. Recording sessions for their fifth album, Fireball, had to be fitted in ...

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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).