The members of Deep Purple were watching their chance at making a new album go up in flames – literally. The heavy metal pioneers had come to Montreux, Switzerland in December 1971 to record their ...

Deep Purple's Machine Head was plagued with problems from the beginning. "It's a project that almost got destroyed before it even got started," bassist Roger Glover says in a very matter-of-fact ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deep Purple during the recording of Machine Head. The dramatic tale of Deep Purple’s sixth album has rightly been etched into rock ...