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Deep Purple’s road to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been rocky ever since they were first eligible for induction in the early Nineties. On Friday night, the hard-rock trailblazers – whose hits include “Smoke on the Water,” “Highway Star,” “Hush” and many others – were finally inducted,…

Steve Miller was the second artist to be inducted at tonight’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony in Brooklyn, and doing the honors were longtime fans the Black Keys. Rolling Stone caught up with Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney to get their thoughts on Miller’s Midwestern appeal and their own…

Steven “Little Stevie” Van Zandt has never been one to hold his tongue. The Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band guitarist was on-hand at the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony to posthumously induct Bert Berns, the influential and prolific so…

Steve Miller has accepted his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction on behalf of the Steve Miller Band, a group that has seen 25 members during the last five decades. Known best for “The Joker,” “Take the Money and Run” and “Fly Like an Eagle,” the grou…

Lars Ulrich fell in love with Deep Purple when he was nine years old, when his dad’s friends took him to see the pioneering hard rockers live in Copenhagen. “They have probably been the primary musical backbone in my body ever since I first heard them,…

The Deep Purple lineup that frontman Ian Gillan calls the “living, breathing Deep Purple” played a hit-filled set Friday night at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The band, most of them dressed in suits, kicked things off with a searing rendition of “Highway…

Dublin’s Thin Lizzy have become one of the most revered cult acts of all time. Studious and discerning fans of hard rock the world over revelling

5 Seconds of Summer bandmates would likely spend time at the pub on a first date.