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Holiday issue of Cartouche

The wedding & Christmas special issue of the Blackmore online fanzine Cartouche is out.

In this issue:

  • news from the marriage of Ritchie and Candice
  • retrospective reviews of Christmas Carols and Beyond The Sunset
  • interviews with Candice, Carole, members and entourage of […]

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Top 40 Singers in Rock

UK digital radio station Planet Rock has complied another indispensable top list that we can get upset over and correct to our own liking. Because we always know best, don’t we?

The Greatest Voice in Rock Top 40 was compiled by […]

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See Smoke On The Water

This one is for the science geeks. You’ve all heard Smoke On The Water, perhaps several times too many. But ever wondered what it looks like? Here’s your big chance. An inventor from Norway demonstrates his gas burner that visualizes sound […]

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JLT on American radio

Joe Lynn Turner will be the featured guest on Eddie Trunk’s “Friday Night Rocks” radio show on New York’s Q104.3 FM on Friday, January 9. We have no idea what they will be talking about, but an educated guess would be […]

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Coverdale offers advice to Jimmy Page

David Coverdale has offered his advice to Jimmy Page on how he thinks the Plant-less incarnation of Led Zeppelin should work. He thinks that a number of different singers should perform with the band instead of just one:

My suggestion […]

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Purple and Black in the press

Classic Rock Magazine has made good on their promise to (finally!) put Deep Purple on the cover — they appear on the February 2009 issue. Inside the issue there is a 20-page Purple feature with interviews from Gillan, Glover, Paicey and […]

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Gothenburg: End of the road for Whitesnake?

David Coverdale proved on Dec 17th in Gothenburg that he´s taken the current incarnation of Whitesnake as far as he can. Although DC increasingly needs the band to fall back on, the success or failure of a Whitesnake concert is […]

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Glenn Hughes NOT to support Whitesnake

Regarding the possibility of Glenn Hughes supporting Whitesnake in Norway in May, Glenn’s webmaster says:

No, that isn’t happening. The media have got it wrong again, Glenn will NOT be on the bill for this particular festival. There will be some appearances with […]

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Stockholm: Great Whitesnake concert with three Purple songs

Yesterday I saw Whitesnake in Stocholm! It was just great. I saw Whitesnake at Sweden Rock this summer, and the sound wasn’t the greatest and there were no Purple songs. David had just had a cold; he was good but […]

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Tommy Bolin on the radio

Wednesday morning December 24th at 8:15 am (US Central Time), Greg Prato will be a special call in guest on KKMA KOOL 99.5 FM in Sioux City, Iowa with Big Daddy in The Morning. Greg will be joined in the studio […]

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Roger’s tumulous and rapid year

Roger Glover has posted an end-of-the-year message on his website, plus some photographic moments from 2008 and a new batch of fan pictures from meet&greets around the world.

Of particular note, he has been digging his tape archives in search of bonus material for […]

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Stormbringer remaster

EMI has pushed back to February release date for the Stormbringer remaster. The release was already announced for January 19 and is advertised so at online retailers. The new date that we have is February 23.

There will be 3 […]

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