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Another Made in Japan teaser
And this time it’s the one you most likely haven’t seen before 😉
Read more »Made in Japan documentary teaser
Deep Purple (Overseas) has posted on YouTube a teaser for The Rise of Deep Purple MK II documentary (which, from this teaser, actually sounds more like The Fall of Deep Purple MK II 😉 ). The full documentary will be included on the DVD part of 4CD+DVD Made in Japan edition due out on May […]
Read more »Bringing colour to Tel-Aviv
Israeli English language daily The Jerusalem Post has a very positive, if somewhat superficial, review of the first gig (February 22) in Tel-Aviv: The ‘explosion’ on the stage started at 9:30 p.m. Saturday night and did not stop for two hours. Yes they are senior citizens but if you put your hands over your eyes […]
Read more »Providence 1985
The official Youtube channel has posted a 16 minute fragment of the Deep Purple’s performance in Providence, RI, on March 5, 1985: Makes you want to see more, eh? 😉
Read more »Rising sun in April
Japanese promoter Udo Artists has announced three Deep Purple dates in the country: April 9 in Nagoya, 10th in Osaka and 12th at the historical Nippon Budokan in Tokyo. Tickets for the latter two are already available with Nagoya going on sale on December 13. The 2014 touring schedule for the band is shaping up […]
Read more »Geddy Lee wants Deep Purple in Hall of Fame
Geddy Lee of Rush was interviewed by radio.com and, among other things, they’ve asked him how he’s going to vote for the next year’s Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame induction candidates (everybody who is already inducted are voting members themselves): Well, certainly Deep Purple, certainly Yes. I have to give it a more complete thought but […]
Read more »The age debate from a different angle
St.Petersburg based Sobaka.ru took a slightly unorthodox approach to the photo report of a Deep Purple concert. In its dead tree incarnation Sobaka.ru is a glossy ‘lifestyle’ magazine, so they concentrated on people in the audience instead of exclusivity of what’s happening on stage. And you know what — the result kinda sorta lends some […]
Read more »Gold edition giveaway
British based Team Rock Radio is giving away a free copy of Now what?! deluxe box set, and from the looks of it it’s open worldwide. Enter your details here.
Read more »“Gold Edition” formats rundown
[Updated with tracklist and artwork] The Now What?! tour gold edition that will be released on November 29 in continental Europe and December 2 in the UK will come in following flavours: Double CD, with the first disc containing the original studio album, plus bonus tracks It’ll Be Me and First Sign Of Madness. Second […]
Read more »Granpa Don
Deep Purple (complete with the tree generation of the Airey clan) were featured on the local news in Düsseldorf, Germany, where they played on October 29. You can watch the news report on WDR.de (in German). The relevant segment starts at 12:44 into the programme and continues for 5 minutes. Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen for […]
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