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 ...

Adjacent to the aurora in the sky is a giant fireball, which, according to NOIRLab, has to have a streak brighter than how ...

Deep Purple got their name from a song by Bing ... during the recording of Fireball. Roger Glover recalled: “I was lying in bed at about three in the morning, when an axe smashed through my ...

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 ...

Deep Purple keyboardist Jon Lord ... their signature hard rock sound on classic albums like Machine Head and Fireball. During this time the group regularly changed members, with Lord being ...

Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan has said seeing the ... towards a proto-metal sound on albums In Rock, Machine Head and Fireball. Prior to joining the band, Gillan began his career with 1960s ...

Deep Purple's current tour ... out because a lot of people want to hear the stuff from "Machine Head" and "Fireball." Those are the ones that have lasted. The final decision on what we’ll ...

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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