Music for Monday: Deep Purple, ‘Highway Star’

Deep Purple’s “Highway Star” is the lead-off track on the March, 1972 L.P., Machine Head. Machine Head is Deep Purple’s most successful album and spent 118 weeks(!) on the US Billboard chart, reaching a high of #7. “Smoke on the … Continue reading

A quartet of passings: Richard Zanuck, William Asher, Donald Sobol, Jon Lord

Unfortunately, over the past few days a number of media personalities who left significant marks on the 1970s have passed away; TV & film director William Asher, producer Richard Zanuck, children’s author Donald J. Sobol and Deep Purple keyboardist Jon … Continue reading