Deep Purple guitarist and solo artist Simon McBride picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names a ...

Purple Rain climaxes with a seven-minute performance ... building toward a closing guitar solo so dizzying and gorgeous it’s hard not to feel like a slightly different person after you hear ...

we partner with Prince’s own ‘Paisley Park’ label to trace this particular model’s history–and we think it may have been the guitar from a key scene in Purple Rain. Join us on a journey ...