On July 12 Universal’s specialty label Rock Classics/Back on Black is reissuing eight classic Rainbow albums on vinyl. This includes studio output from RB’s Rainbow to Straight Between The Eyes, plus On Stage and Finyl Vinyl. All records will be pressed on 180-gram vinyl and packaged in “deluxe gatefold sleeves”. The first 1,000 copies of […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2010-06-11
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While being in Australia, Steve Morse and Don Airey met with Bob Daisley to discuss the schedule to complete recording of a new Living Loud album. 3 tracks have already been laid down and are awaiting Jimmy Barnes to complete the vocals. The plan is to find some time in October to finalise the rest […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2010-05-13
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Joe Bonamassa has reported on Facebook that he recorded with Don Airey this week. No more information at this moment but Bonamassa referred to it as “Don Airey’s record”.
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Posted in News by Svante Axbacke on 2010-01-14
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Don Airey has contributed some Hammond to the recording of Fly Free — a tribute to the legendary Scottish race driver Jackie Stewart. The song was written by Jackie’s son Paul as a gift for his 70th birthday. Eric Clapton contributed his guitar playing (Sir Eric is apparently a close friend of Sir Jackie). Other […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2009-11-23
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BBC has announced that Don Airey will appear on the Bruce Dickinson Friday Rock Show on October 9. The show broadcasts between 21:00 and midnight on BBC Radio 6 and online, and will be available for online listening for 7 days after that. Update [Oct 6]: The interview with Don was recorded last night and, […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-10-03
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Don Airey recently gave an interview to Get Ready to Rock that covers a lot of his career, from the very first gig on a cruise ship to the recent (and now infamous) Oasis story. What have been your highs and lows in the music industry? Oh God! Well, the highs, they keep coming thick […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-09-09
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Rockpages.gr has published a recent interview they did with Don Airey. Quite an interesting reading it is, where Don touches upon many things past and present. On the mood in the band regarding recording a new album: Rockpages.gr: “Rapture Of The Deep” was released in 2005, Deep Purple are touring constantly, are there any news […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-08-26
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Gary Moore, Ian Paice, Don Airey, Neil Murray, Cozy Powell, Jack Bruce, Max Middleton, Clem Clempson, Graham Bonnet, Micky Moody, Cozy Powell and Jon Lord — see them all here.
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2009-05-30
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Rockpages.gr has a rather interesting interview with Graham Bonnet. While undoubtedly it was prompted by his resurrection of Alcatrazz, a good half of the interview is about the Rainbow days.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-04-19
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Classic Rock Revisited has a recently published interview with Don Airey, done by Jeb Wright. Don talks about his solo album A Light In The Sky, his life, his illustrious career over the years, and the circumstances of replacing Jon Lord: Jeb: Was Jon an influence to you growing up? Don: I always loved Purple […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-02-25
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