Gazette Time Machine: Deep Purple and Judas Priest in Montreal

Deep Purple and Judas Priest have teamed up for a double-bill tour that stops at Montreal’s Bell Centre on Wednesday, Aug. 29. Here are excerpts from our previous coverage of the hard-rock veterans.
Deep Purple a blast, and not just from the past
Monday, April 1, 1985
When words like “seminal” are used to describe a band, skeptics can be forgiven for expecting the worst, especially when the band in question hasn’t performed together for more than a decade. But t