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Hopes and revelations

More Purple coverage in the press, albeit not quite on the magazine covers level.

MOJO #369 Gillan interview

MOJO issue 369 (August 2024, with Stevie Nicks on the cover) has an extensive interview with the junior pole-vaulter-turned-vocal-acrobat Ian Gillan, covering his career from the first interests in music up to the present day.

From Hounslow to the Lake Geneva shoreline, Deep Purple’s air raid siren recounts a hard rock life. “You’ve got to get outside of a formula,” he tells Mark Blake.

Uncut magazine reviews =1 in their August 2024 issue, and places it under the “revelations” moniker (probably for the first time since Paicey was half Simon’s age).

uncut-2024-aug =1 review

Over in Germany, Hardline magazine also reviews =1 in their issue 62 (July-September 2024), gives it 10 out of 10, and concludes with

A really great album, which hopefully won’t be the quintet’s last.

Thanks to Marcelo Soares and Tobias Janaschke for the info.



5 Comments to “Hopes and revelations”:

  1. 1
    Uwe Hornung says:

    It’s great to see ze Pürps get some media recognition.

    Finally. Better late than never.

  2. 2
    Tony says:

    Now What ?!

  3. 3
    Terry says:

    Portable door is still getting airplay on planet rock, I don’t think Lazy sod has made the playlist yet. Radio 2 have yet to back the new songs like they did with whoosh.

  4. 4
    David Black says:

    Fair play to Mojo. It’s a lot better than the standard interview.

  5. 5
    Uwe Hornung says:

    Mojo interviews always are.

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