Discover why **Deep Purple**, formed in 1968, shaped hard rock and heavy metal with iconic songs like **Smoke on the Water**. For young listeners in North America, their high-energy anthems from ...

Walk into any music shop, and you're bound to hear it: those unmistakable, syncopated opening notes that have served as the universal rite of passage for generations of guitar players. Deep Purple's ...

165 years after Ludwig Van Beethoven composed what would become one of the most recognizable four notes in music history, Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore would use the foundation of ...

Deep Purple blasted onto the rock scene in the late 1960s and became one of the biggest bands of the 1970s. Known for blistering guitar solos, thunderous drums, and songs like 'Smoke on the Water,' ...

Kathy McCabe of the Herald Sun is reporting that DEEP PURPLE's "Smoke On The Water" has been voted the best rock 'n' roll riff ever played in a poll conducted by the Australian Musician magazine. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It goes without saying that Eddie Van Halen was responsible for some of the most iconic guitar riffs in rock history...but which ...

Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" is one of the most recognizable songs in rock history. Over the years, it has landed on ...

Powerful guitar riffs were the defining sound of the 1970s. From rock and roll to blues, shredding guitar tracks were such an important element in hits from that era. Many of those iconic solos are ...

Deep Purple’s head-banging 1972 rock anthem is the last thing you’d expect to hear — in any form — on “The Book of Longing,” Brazilian-born vocal standout Luciana Souza’s 14th and newest album. Named ...