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The Jon Lord Blues Project played on April 7 at the Rother Bluestage festival in Germany. The band also includes Miller Anderson on guitar and vocals, Maggie Bell on vocals, Colin Hodgkinson on bass, and Pete York on drums. Watch Jon talk about the project:
Read more »Tickets for the short Deep Purple tour of UK are going on sale this week. Nov 26 — Glasgow Nov 27 — Birmingham Nov 29 — Manchenster Nov 30 — London Presale for Glasgow starts April 14, register at TicketSoup.com. Presale for the other three shows starts April 13, but we do not have any […]
Read more »Whitesnake’s Forevermore came out in March and made into Top 50 charts in several countries. The first-week chart positions were as follows: Sweden: #6 Finland: #11 Czech Republic: #15 Germany: #16 Switzerland: #17 Austria: #27 Italy: #41 Netherlands #42 Poland: #42 USA: #49 The album sold around 12,000 copies in the US in the first […]
Read more »Born Again will be re-released in the UK via Universal/Sanctuary as a 2CD Deluxe Edition on May 30. Track listing: Disc 1: Trashed Stonehenge Disturbing the Priest The Dark Zero the Hero Digital Bitch Born Again Hot Line Keep it Warm Disc 2: The Fallen (previously unreleased album session outtake) Stonehenge (extended version) Hot Line […]
Read more »Almost all dates on the North American tour in June have been confirmed by Deep Purple’s management. Only June 7 in Boston and the three Canadian dates still remain unconfirmed at the time of this writing, despite tickets being on sale for quite a while. Stay tuned for further developments. The tour is being billed […]
Read more »We have yet to see something official on this but according to reports in our own comments and on the DP Hub, Deep Purple has been recording new material at Ian Paice’s studio in Spain. Apparently 9 complete songs were recorded in March with Ian Paice overseeing the project. The band have 7-8 other unfinished […]
Read more »Gillan and Iommi’s charity project WhoCares will release it’s debut single on May 6 via Edel/eARmusic. The single will contain two brand new songs Out Of My Mind and Holy Water. Jon Lord, Nicko McBrain, Jason Newsted and Linde Lindström (HIM) also contributed to the project. The single will be available in following formats: CD […]
Read more »David Coverdale will be co-hosting That Metal Show (episode 703) on a US cable/satellite channel VH1. The episode will air this Saturday, April 2, at 11 PM EDT/PDT and will be repeated in the following days. Check your local listings. VH1 also makes available past episodes online, but as it’s being run by an Evil […]
Read more »Deep Purple On a Roll set for release soon, the natural successor to Deep Purple In Rock. Says Roger Glover of the new CD: We felt that not only was this a natural progression for the band, it continues our theme of food which has become evident in our recent releases. We really are on […]
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