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All The Time in The World

For all those who have missed the song on the radio, Deep Purple’s record labe has posted All The Time in The World. Bear in mind that this is the radio edit, i.e. version of the song intentionally made to sound as much commercial as possible by shortening the solos, instrumental breaks, and/or altering the mix.

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Snippets of new single

In case you can’t wait until Monday, audio snippets of the new Deep Purple single have been posted of a French site qobuz.com (click on ‘ecouter’ to listen). Thanks to Martin and everybody else who reported this.

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Opinions that matter

We who know the band in and out can discuss whether the band is better or worse since the last time we saw them. We can also complain that regular people only want to hear SOTW. From time to time we also complain about clueless reviewers. Well, here’s a guy, a reviewer even, who says […]

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World premiere of the new material

Update (Mar 10): the band’s PR people tweeted this update about radio play of the new single elsewhere: Listen out for “All the time in the world” hits radio Monday BBC2 at 7pm uk time and Virgin Radio (rocket song, every 2 hrs for a week) Deep-Purple.ru reports that Moscow radio Rock FM will be […]

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Abandon Promotion Interviews

When Abandon was released, the American record company at the time, CMC International, had some idea of radio promotion for the disc. A couple of singles were released and they also produced a bunch of interview clips. The interviews were made like short sound bites you could edit together with appropriate questions from your own […]

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UK Tourdates Announced

An autumn tour has been arranged for the UK, just announced this morning. The dates in October are as follows: SATURDAY 12 – 02 APOLLO MANCHESTER SUNDAY 13 – GLASGOW CLYDE AUDITORIUM TUESDAY 15 – BIRMINGHAM NIA WEDNESDAY 16 – LONDON ROUNDHOUSE Tickets (subject to booking fees) are priced £35.00/ £47.50 advance in London and […]

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Now what?! on tour

German promoter KBK has announced the first tour dates of what is billed as Deep ?urp!e Now What?! tour. The German leg will start in Dresden on October 22 and finish in Mannheim on November 2, covering 8 major cities (announced so far). Peter Frampton will be opening on all nights. Full details in our […]

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Now what?! — It’s official

EarMUSIC has circulated a press release confirming the title of the new Deep ?urp!e (sic!) album: Deep Purple announce the first studio album since 2005 and reveal details for the first double A-Side single to be released on March 29th. NOW What ?! has been produced by Bob Ezrin, one of the most important rock […]

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Now what?!

The official Deep Purple Facebook page has got a new logo reading Now What?! In what we’re sure, is a total coincidence, the mysterious site deeppurple2013.com is also accessible as deeppurple-nowwhat.com. Both domains were registered on the same day late last year by a German-based media company. Just sayin’…

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The value of private moments

Roger Glover gave an interview to MyDubai MyCity. He spoke about Swiss women, honesty in music, the value of those rare private moments on tour, crazy as they come fans, and why he doesn’t use social networks. Oh, yeah, and the seemingly inevitable question of that song also came up. And a bonus snippet from […]

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