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A bit of a hugger
Glenn Hughes was interviewed by Planet Rock at this weekend’s Steelhouse Festival in Wales. (watch inside)
Read more »More magazine covers
Ian Gillan is on the cover of issue 4 (May 2017) of the Sweden Rock Magazine. Inside the magazine there is an 8 pages long feature on Deep Purple and their new album with interview and pictures, 5 pages of illustrated interview with David Coverdale, and a page worth of interview with Bob Ezrin. More […]
Read more »Lazy power trio
It is next to impossible to perform Lazy without Hammond. Or some other kind of keyboards. Right? Right?…
Read more »Purple bonanza in Classic Rock magazine
April 2017 issue of the Classic Rock magazine (now on sale in the UK) has Deep Purple on the cover, a 10-page feature Love, Death, Age: Inside the Unstoppable Deep Purple inside, plus a 7/10 review of the new album inFinite, and four pages review of Glenn Hughes’ Islington gig from January 21 this year. […]
Read more »Metallica covers Blindman
Metallica did a cover of When a Blind Man Cries while performing yesterday, October 22, at the Bridge School Benefit in Mountain View, California.
Read more »Delta Deep
Phil Collen of Def Leppard fame has a side new project — a heavy blues band called Delta Deep. Their self-titled debut album sounds pretty good to these ears. But that’s not the reason we mention it here. And the reasons are twofold: first, David Coverdale had dropped by and sang on one of the […]
Read more »Stargazer at Wacken
This weekend the Rock Meets Classics performed at Wacken Open Air. Joe Lynn Turner was part of the gang, and they performed Stargazer in tribute to Ronnie James Dio. (watch inside)
Read more »Death Alley Tony
American heavy metal band A Sound Of Thunder is releasing their new album Tales from the Deadside. The album features two bonus tracks: covers of Rainbow’s Death Alley Driver and Dio’s Last in Line. And they’ve got Tony Carey playing keyboards on Death Alley Driver: As far as my part goes, I threw down some […]
Read more »Coverdale’s Purple Tour
David Coverdale is sticking to his guns during the current Purple Tour with Whitesnake performing no less than eight (silly me) nine Purple songs live. Here’s the setlist from the opening night of the tour — May 28 gig in Airway Heights, WA: Burn Lay Down, Stay Down Love Ain’t No Stranger Gypsy Give Me […]
Read more »Soundtrack spotting
A couple of Purple tunes could be heard in the movie theatres recently. Mistreated was featured in an animated fantasy musical by LucasFilm called Strange Magic, sung by Alan Cumming: A cover of Hush (or is that a cover of a cover?) has been spotted in a British action comedy flick Kingsman: The Secret Service. […]
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