“We were originally supposed to be doing the song with Axl Rose, but he never turned up to the session”: The crazed early 90s techno collaboration that saved a 70s rock icon’s career – and his life

The KLF posing for a photograph in pyjamas and giant horned helmets in 1997.

Glenn Hughes had it all in the 1970s and then came very close to throwing everything away in the 1980s.

Plucked from livewire rockers Trapeze to join Deep Purple’s Mk III in 1973, bassist/vocalist Hughes and fellow new boy David Coverdale helped revitalise Purple after the departure of original singer Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover.