Ritchie Blackmore needs to be passionate about the music he's making, but there are some forgettable songs on this album, one of which he called "banal." ...

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 got their name from a song by Bing ... during the recording of Fireball. Roger Glover recalled: “I was lying in ...