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JLT refutes rumours of supergroup

Rumours of a new supergroup comprising Joe Lynn Turner, Michael Anthony, and Carmine Appice started flying over ’em old interwebs a couple of days ago. JLT has issued a press release denying this: Both Appice and Turner have officially dismissed this news as a rumor. The musicians said that there was never any press release […]

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Paice and JLT in The Who tribute

Ian Paice and Joe Lynn Turner have contributed to Who Are You: An All Star Tribute To The Who due out on October 2 via Cleopatra Records.

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Morse and JLT in Supertramp tribute

Steve Morse and Joe Lynn Turner both took part in the Supertramp tribute album Songs Of The Century due for release on August 14 via Cleopatra Records. Steve contributed for The Logical Song (together with the original Yes keyboard player Tony Kaye), while Joe sang on Bloody Well Right. Other guests on the album include […]

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JLT on Geeks of Doom

Geeks of Doom has a new interview with Joe Lynn Turner. On Blackmore: The only difficulty we had once was we were going to have a punch out and we threw everybody out of the dressing room and we were staring at each other, glass of scotch in hand, yelling, ‘Fuck you!’ All of this […]

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Emotional Fire

Joe Lynn Turner’s Sunstorm, an AOR side project with German/American producer Dennis Ward, will release the third album entitled Emotional Fire on February 24th in Europe (February 28th in North America) on Frontiers Records. The Sunstorm project was born after Turner met with Frontiers Records’ President Serafino Perugino, as a way to dig up some […]

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JLT’s open letter

Something went wrong in the Joe Lynn Turner’s camp and today this open letter landed on our editorial floor: Dear Fans and Media Friends, I am aware of a compilation of unfinished demo songs that was published on the Internet by an individual named Scott Rolaf. These demos were recorded in my studio about two […]

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Mother’s Army reissue

Back in 1990s Joe Lynn Turner was a member of project called Mother’s Army. Jeff Watson was playing guitar, Bob Daisley was on the bass and Carmine Appice on drums, later replaced by Aynsley Dunbar. The band managed to put out 3 albums: self titled (1993), Planet Earth (1997) and Fire On The Moon (1998), […]

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More reactions on Gary Moore passing

Classic Rock Revisited has a tribute for Gary Moore with quotes from many rock musicians. Steve Morse: On the last date of our tour a couple of months ago, Gary was playing on Roger’s MP3 player backstage through an amplified speaker. It was Gary and our Don Airey, I think, playing with Colosseum II. They […]

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Pushking’s project finally out

The new CD of a Russian band Pushking called The World as We Love It is finally out and on sale. We wrote about this project almost two years ago. The album features contributions from several members of the Purple family as well as other rock luminaries spread across 19 tracks: Intro Nightrider (vocals, guitar: Billy […]

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Jan Holberg Project

Joe Lynn Turner has contributed vocals to debut album of the Jan Holberg Project which is due out on March 28 on Nordic Records. Jan Holberg is a Trondheim, Norway, based bass player who wrote ten original songs for the project. The album is called Sense of Time and was recorded in Reykjavik, Iceland, with […]

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