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[Confirmed] As soon as the band got off the stage at Budokan in Tokyo on April 12, rumours started circulating that the gig was professionally filmed. As said rumours are coming from all the sides now, we feel we should report it. If any of our readers can confirm this first hand (as in “I […]
Read more »Lars Ulrich commented to the Rolling Stone magazine on this Rock and Roll Hall of Fame thingy. And he was nailing his point down quite hard: I’m not gonna get into the politics or all that stuff, but I got two words to say: ‘Deep Purple’. That’s all I have to say: Deep Purple. Seriously, […]
Read more »Being on tour with his other band, Don Airey was interviewed in Prague by Jan Krempl and Petr Cejka from Deep Purple CZ, who graciously offered us the original text for publication here on THS.
Read more »Believe it or not, before there were Wikipedia, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, there was this little musical fan site called The Highway Star. 20 years ago the site went online for the first time. The announcement was made on April 11, 1994. Which, by the way, probably makes us one of the first 10,000 […]
Read more »Another track from the upcoming inaugural California Breed album — Midnight Oil: Glenn Hughes comments: It’s a refreshing animated video that really captures the lyrical concert and message of the Midnight Oil single. We didn’t want to make a run-of-the-mill lyric video. The animation perfectly captures the raw energy, lyrical content and the message of […]
Read more »Deep Purple live at Nokia Arena (Tel Aviv, Israel 2014-02-22) A superb performance by the band and they sound the same as they were 40 years ago. Being a fan in the great audience I enjoyed the whole performance , feeling young and bringing back memories from the rocking years of the 60’s & 70’s. […]
Read more »Glenn Hughes, Bruce Dickinson, Ian Paice, Don Airey, Rick Wakeman, Murray Gould (guitar), and the orchestra perform Burn during Celebrating Jon Lord show at the Royal Albert Hall on April 4: Thanks to Clint Walker for the video.
Read more »T-shirts from the Royal Albert Hall event on April 4 — Celebrating Jon Lord — are still available via Sunflower Jam web store. Jon Lord photo book All Those Years Ago was unveiled at the event and is available for preorder via JonLord.org store. And last, but not least, The Highway Star Twitter account got […]
Read more »Direct from Paul Mann, here’s complete setlist of the evening of April 4, 2014: Jimmy Smith playback as audience arrives Introductory remarks by Vicky Lord Introduction by Bob Harris Fantasia from Sarabande House Band/Orch. Durham Awakes from Durham Concerto Orchestra Jacqueline Martens (Violin) Matthew Barley (Cello) Kathryn Tickell (Northumbrian Pipes) Nigel Hopkins (Hammond Organ) All […]
Read more »As I write this, a special event is about to start at the Royal Albert Hall in London — a concert to celebrate life and music of the late Jon Lord. Probably quite a few of our readers will be attending, and quite probably even more couldn’t make it. The lucky ones, please share your […]
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