More than 300 musicians have voted the guitar riff of Deep Purple's Smoke On The Water as the best riff of all time. The poll, conducted by the Australian Musician magazine, saw AC/DC's Back In Black ...

If you've watched Loudwire's Gear Factor series over the years, you've no doubt seen how influential Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" riff is, especially for guitar players just starting out and ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1973, bassist and lead vocalist Glenn Hughes joined one of the biggest bands in the world – but he never saw it coming. “I had ...

Deep Purple’s ‘Smoke On The Water’ has topped a poll to find the best ever guitar riff. The 1972 song beat Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ in the survey of students from music schools ...

Founding Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore has received the Lifetime Achievement award from The National GUITAR Museum.

Would this even be a list of iconic guitar riffs from the 1970s without including “Stairway To Heaven” by Led Zeppelin? We don’t think so. The song as a whole is an epic one, and it wouldn’t be too ...

All good rock and roll comes back to the guitar riff, but some of the greatest riffs of all time came to these artists purely ...