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Louder Sound reprints a Prog magazine short feature on the Butterfly Ball project, stemming from a 2018 interview with Roger Glover. In 1973, Alan Aldridge and William Plomer published a picture book titled The Butterfly Ball And The Grasshopper’s Feast, based on a 19th-century poem of the same name by William Roscoe. On the surface, […]
Read more »A vintage article about Roger Glover and his then upcoming project Butterfly Ball. This originally appeared in Sounds on November 9, 1974. Glover has a ball By Pete Makowski Roger Glover is a satisfied person nowadays. Since his departure from Deep Purple, Glover has steadily been building up a good reputation as a record producer […]
Read more »Louder Sound presents a lengthy and very well put together feature on the current Deep Purple lineup, arrival of Simon McBride, the new album, and tour. With input from Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, and Simon McBride. The article also sheds some new light on the circumstances of Steve Morse’s departure from the band. Except Morse […]
Read more »The track with Roger Glover guesting on bass from the upcoming Michael Schenker’s album of UFO remakes has been released as a digital single.
Read more »Roger Glover posts on his website a eulogy for the late Mick Underwood: Mick Underwood was a lovely man. I was deeply saddened to learn that he had died. It’s taken me a while to digest the news and put in perspective what he meant for Ian Gillan and me. When he joined Episode Six, […]
Read more »Analog Planet has an extensive interview with Roger Glover, accompanied by a brief review of =1. Roger talks about the new album, the bad old days, various Machine Head remixes, including the latest, working with Bob Ezrin, and many other things. Mettler: None of us are perfect strangers to any of that, to borrow an […]
Read more »Deep Purple were featured in the BBC Radio 2 show The Rock Show with Johnnie Walker that aired on July 19, 2024. Ian Gillan and Roger Glover were guests of the show. You can listen to it on the BBC player, where it will be available for 30 days after the first airing. Gillan’s bit […]
Read more »Couple of interviews promoting =1 that by now, frankly, sound a bit redundant, but here they are for the sake of completeness. Roger Glover spoke to ABC News: Glover said Gillan once questioned how big of an equation someone could come up with where the answer would equal one, then had a mathematician friend come […]
Read more »Bass Player magazine has a short article about Roger Glover’s playing style, with a couple of quotes from the man himself. I believe in playing simply, because of the virtuosity that surrounds me in the rest of the band. I have to be the bedrock for them to lie on and do what they do […]
Read more »Houston Press has a feature on Deep Purple based around an interview with Roger Glover. It starts with =1, weaves through the history of the band, and arrives at the upcoming North American tour. In the pursuance of music journalism, it’s not often that the subject of a scheduled interview tells you right off the […]
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