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Ian Gillan did an interview with BBC Radio Gloucestershire where he talks about self-discipline in the studio, the bad old days in swinging London and the role of accountants in Deep Purple’s history, among other things. The interview is 12 minutes long. You can listen to it online from the BBC (or if it doesn’t […]
Read more »Ian Gillan stopped in The Netherlands Belgium on his way to Dubai to appear on TV talk show. Watch his appearance to learn about adrenaline problems, who is Dan, and what do Japanese firemen have in common with Brazilian strippers.
Bob Ruggiero of The Houston Press did an interview with Ian Gillan. There is some typically Gillan anecdotage besides the usual story behind his latest album: The funniest thing was when we did the tour for House of Blue Light in the late ’80s and somebody, without telling me or the rest of the band, […]
Read more »Gillan did another radio appearance on the weekend, this time on Planet Rock in the UK. We apologise that we have not been able to give you an advance notice. The show will be repeated on Tuesday, March 31, at 6 p.m. We’ve got a couple of great features this weekend, starting on Saturday when […]
Read more »Ian Gillan did an interview with UltimateGuitar.com and by all accounts he was as baffled as we are that a guitar site wants to interview him. Besides the obligatory talk of his new album, some insights into Big Ian’s reading habits, early music influences, and mildly amusing anecdotage have floated: Two to three weeks ago, […]
Read more »Unfortunately, Wednesday Gillan’s appearance on Rockline radio show didn’t happen. Big Ian was supposed to appear on the show via a link between London and Los Angeles, but there appeared to be technical difficulties with the link. The host of the show, Bruce Coburn, first played a couple of tunes off One Eye To Morocco […]
Read more »Blackmore has issued a statement through his lawyers in reply to Gillan’s interview to Rockpages.gr which was published in October: In an interview he gave to a music website recently, Ian Gillan made a number of comments about Ritchie Blackmore that twisted facts and which require setting the record straight. Read the whole thing at […]
Read more »Promotion for the Ian Gillan’s album One Eye To Morocco goes into full swing. Tonight, Saturday, March 21, starting at 6pm he will appear in a 2 hour special on Rock Radio in Scotland: Ian takes over the airwaves to celebrate the release of his new solo album, One Eye to Morocco, next week. During […]
Read more »Belgian radio station Classic 21 has a special for One Eye To Morocco. You can watch Gillan’s interview undubbed, and our francophone readers will certainly appreciate the text. See and read it at classic21.be (you might need to scroll down the page a bit). Thanks to Valerio Dossini for the info.
Read more »In the latest issue of the Polish Teraz Rock magazine (March 2009) there is a very interesting three page interview. Ian Gillan and Wieslaw Weiss are talking about One Eye To Morocco and some other things. Plus a few fine photos. Thanks to Joasia Ostrowiecka for the info.
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