Deep Purple Machine Head #1 4.22.72
Today in 1972: [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Deep Purple[/lastfm] reached number one on the U.K. album chart with Machine Head, which began a three week run on top.
Machine Head contains the best guitar riff ask anyone who plays Guitar Hero. Better yet one of the first learned by every beginning guitarist — in “Smoke on the Water.” Inspired by real-life events in Montreux, Switzerland, where Deep Purple were recording the album when the Grand Hotel was burned to the ground during a Frank Zappa concert, neither the song, nor its timeless riff, should need any further description.
Machine Head, most people #1 Deep Purple Album, was anything but a one-trick pony, introducing the bona fide classic opener “Highway Star,” which epitomized all of Deep Purple’s intensity and versatility while featuring perhaps the greatest soloing duel ever between guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and organist Jon Lord. Also in top form was singer Ian Gillan, who crooned and exploded with amazing power and range throughout to establish himself once and for all as one of the finest voices of his generation, bar none.
The Holy Trinity of English hard rock and heavy metal : Black Sabbath’s Paranoid, Led Zeppelin’s fourth album, and Deep Purple’s Machine Head have stood the test of time as, serving as the fundamental blueprints followed by virtually every heavy rock & roll band since the early ’70s.
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