20 years ago, ‘Rapture of the Deep‘ was recorded in just five weeks and without a label. Deep Purple’s 18th studio album has always been considered something of an insider’s gem, yet it often remained in the shadow of the band’s biggest classics. In hindsight, however, it marked a turning point: from this uncertain moment […]

As part of the upcoming ‘Rapture of the Deep – 20th Anniversary Remix‘, Deep Purple today release a new single: a newly mixed and remastered version of ‘Clearly Quite Absurd‘, backed with a previously unreleased instrumental studio rehearsal take of ‘MTV‘. Stream / download – here Roger Glover recalls in 2025: “’Clearly Quite Absurd’ is a very […]