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Goldmine magazine has inducted Deep Purple into their own private Hall of Fame (no relation to the snubby one). Noting that “there have been 14 different members of Deep Purple, including four different lead singers, […] members coming in and out more than once…”, by means of a rather convoluted process the 14 have been […]
Read more »Before the concert in Gävle on August 10, Steve Morse spoke to the Swedish national radio and got a language lesson in the process: Lyssna: Deep Purples gitarrist Steve Morse lär sig svenska Thanks to Joel Peterson for the info.
Read more »Martin Popoff did an interview with Bob Ezrin for BraveWords: I didn’t come into this thinking that I had a mission. I came into this a little bit reluctantly, thinking that they were looking to me to make a contemporary rock album with Deep Purple, which I didn’t feel was appropriate, or could be done […]
Read more »Undoubtedly riding on the success of the 2012 Freeze Yer Ass Canadian tour, the band will commence 2014 touring in February in Scandinavia. 3 4 dates have surfaced so far: February 4 in Oslo, 5th in Bergen, 6th in Stavanger (very unconfirmed), and 11th in Copenhagen. Tickets for Oslo, Bergen and Copenhagen will go on […]
Read more »The Classic Rock Awards polls are now open and our boys are in the running in two categories that you can vote for: Now what?! is shortlisted for Album of the Year Machine Head 40th anniversary is shortlisted for Reissue of the Year As far as we can tell, any red blooded creature of 16 […]
Read more »Born Again has turned 30, and black-sabbath.com is celebrating the anniversary with an extended article, which includes the cover art story straight from its author Steve Joule, among many other things: OK let’s put this baby to rest once and for all. The Black Sabbath ‘Born Again’ album sleeve was designed under extraordinary circumstances; basically […]
Read more »Roger Glover sends a message recalling (what once seemed to be) the ill-fated gig in Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic, on August 4: On a tour full of remarkable events, the festival gig outside Brno in the Czech Republic stands out. As we arrived at the venue, we were told that there would be a […]
Read more »[Updated #2: even more video] On August 1 Deep Purple headlined probably the largest heavy metal festival in the world — Wacken Open Air. Uli Jon Roth came on stage to join them for Smoke on the Water, and the whole performance was filmed in 3D for a future DVD/Blu-ray release. BraveWords has a report: […]
Read more »We have reported last month that Argentinian fan club Amigos de Joe Lynn Turner was running a contest with several recent CDs as prizes, Gustavo Solinas now informs us that the winners of the contest have been chosen: Anderson Guimaraes — The Jan Holberg Project At Your Service signed by Jan Holberg Jimmy Carlos — […]
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