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Odyssey through the chaotic career
Record Collector magazine has announced a special Deep Purple issue featuring foreword by Opeth’s frontman (and a card-carrying Purple fan) Mikael Åkerfeldt.
Join us on a 57-year odyssey through the chaotic career of Deep Purple, the original British heavy rock band. There will be deaths along the way. There will be arguments and near-fatal pranks. Guitars will be smashed. Amps will explode. Mountains of coke and lakes of wine will be consumed. Members will fall out and make up again at regular intervals… and yes, there will be smoke on water. Add a monster worldwide discography, over 100 rare records and a full rundown of all nine Purps line-ups, and RC Presents DP becomes a riff-packed bookazine to treasure.
The issue is going on sale April 17, 2025, for £9.95 plus shipping, with pre-orders available starting April 14.
Thanks to BraveWords for the info.
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This article reminds me of the Record Collector magazine being a favourite of mine many decades ago out here in no mans land. So much information for us rock music starved aficionados. It was like gold in that sense, to be able to read about many things that we would never know about, well before the internet came along. Mojo magazine was quite good too. Back then there was never too much information, if you know what I mean. Cheers.
April 12th, 2025 at 23:22This issue may contain a feature about a website close to you.
April 12th, 2025 at 23:46Oh, that must be Darker Than Blue then! 😈
April 13th, 2025 at 02:54We should really rechristen MacGregor Herr MacMoaner, always complaining about his youth on an imagined derelict island continent where he apparently had no access to anything. At the same time, in the 80s loads of people I knew in Europe were wildly enthusiastic about Australia going into raptures about the country, the nature, its people and its cities, bitten off limbs by saltwater crocs did not seem to deter them. They would have given their left nuts/ovaries to move there and some of them actually did. And not only to become surfboard instructors either …
Alas!, the grass is always greener … I was always interested in the bands from there, Skyhooks, Split Enz, Angel City, INXS, Midnight Oil, Heaven, Nick Cave, The Party Boys, Lancaster Bombers, Rose Tattoo, Rick Springfield … the only band I wasn’t interested in was AC/DC because, frankly, there was little to find interesting about them, musically or otherwise. And I sometimes have the impression that at least half of the actors in Hollywood, especially the very good ones, are Australians.
I do have an Australian vinyl pressing of GILLAN’s Mr Universe, the one with the different cover! I was really proud to get it. Add to that how Australia is one of the few territories on earth that was graced with an Mk IV tour in 1975. Germany, the spiritual home of DP, never got to see them verdammt noch mal!
So get a grip, MacMoaner! 😂
April 13th, 2025 at 13:21