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Archive for September, 2011



A picture of an optimist in turmoil

Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles has a new interview with Roger Glover conducted by Martin Popoff. It covers a lot of ground, digging deep into the roots, surfacing for some Purple air, and soaring up to his new solo album. Two words come to mind when reading Roger’s interviews: eloquent and insightful. Wishing to steer […]

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Sunbury’75 app

Thomson Music has released a second Purple-related app for iPad: The Sunbury Rock Festival was an annual Australian rock music festival held on a 620-acre private farm between Sunbury and Diggers Rest, Victoria, which was staged on the Australia Day (26 January) long weekend from 1972 to 1975. It attracted up to 45,000 patrons and […]

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The broken heart invitation

Roger Glover explains on his website the convoluted origins of If Life Was Easy artwork. He concludes with an invitation to all fans to take part in a contest: If […] you would like to win a specially signed copy of If Life Was Easy (don’t faint), here is a little competition… Visualize text fragments […]

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The Royal Family, pt. 2

Martin Popoff has a follow up to his Purple family book. The new book is called The Deep Purple Royal Family: Chain Of Events ’80-’11. This picks up where that book left off, offering a few modest milestones within its pages, namely: the most comprehensive information on the Gillan band ever stuffed in a book […]

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BCC Live Over Europe details

The new Black Country Communion live DVD Live Over Europe was recorded during their summer tour and will be released on October 24 with Blu-ray to follow on November 15th. Watch the trailer inside.

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