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Archive for April, 2017



That yearly laughing quota

May 2017 issue of Burrn! magazine in Japan features Ritchie Blackmore on the cover and a 14 page feature inside, including interview with him and Candice. Here are the more interesting bits of what they’ve said. Customary caveat: this is in reverse translation from Japanese. On recording new material: Burrn: We understand you were recording […]

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It’s okay if you like it

Short, but sweet and very lighthearted — an interview with Roger Glover and Ian Paice that appeared on WMGK classic rock radio station broadcasting out of Philadelphia. This is also the proof that not all classic rock DJs are clueless.

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One chord on a Deep Purple album

Ultimate Classic Rock has an amusing anecdote of how a swedish session man Tommy Denander got to play a single chord on inFinite: The band were on tour and had a couple of days in Stockholm – not a lot of time left before mixing started, so it had to be recorded while on tour. […]

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Rainbow Live in Birmingham 2016

On June 9, Eagle Rock Entertainment will release the third show of the last year Rainbow triplet — Live In Birmingham 2016. This release follows Memories In Rock – Live In Germany, that was compiled from the two German shows played a week earlier, and which by many accounts were of a lesser quality performance-wise. […]

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InFinitely yours, The Highway Star reviews InFinite

InFinitely yours, The Highway Star reviews the new album Heavens wouldn’t we so high I know if the times gone by hadn’t been so low. Thus sang Ian Gillan in 1996, and just like Purpendicular was a landslide move in a new direction, InFinite is another thrilling threat to our ingrown ideas of what a […]

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inFinite release party in Stockholm

On April 7, Ear Music’s Swedish partner Playground will host a release party for the new Deep Purple album at Hard Rock Cafe in Stockholm. Guests will have the chance to win one of ten goodie bags containing: “inFinite” album “Time For Bedlam” single Unique “inFinite” t-shirt “Out Of Hand” very rare white vinyl 10” […]

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Music is infinite, bodies aren’t

Roger Glover was a guest yesterday, April 2 on Star 107 radio station in Cambridge, England. His 25 minute long interview gets more and more interesting once the now familiar talking points about inFinite and the Long Goodbye Tour are out of the way.

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Unboxing the box

Watch Roger Glover opening the big box of inFinite for the first time: facebook.com

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Will be a nice place when it’s finished

You know you’re in the middle of an intensive promotional campaign when behind-the-scene remarks start sounding more interesting than the interviews themselves.

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The difficulty of simplicity

Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Roger Glover, and Don Airey discuss the new album inFinite and the future of the band (listen inside)

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