Last year, while the band was in Israel, Ian Gillan and Roger Glover made a cameo appearance on the local TV show Atlantica. Video clip of the scene has been posted online. Watch it here, or if it does not work for you, head over to Facebook.
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2015-09-19
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Roger Glover was a guest of a recent episode of One On One With Mitch Lafon. The show starts with a chat with Alice Cooper guitarist Tommy Henriksen; Roger’s segment starts shortly after the 10 minute mark and although he sounds pretty tired, he soldiers for 30 minutes, talking about many things, from what he […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2015-08-10
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Back in 1970s Cliff Richard was hosting a TV show called It’s Cliff Richard. When the show was relaunched in September 1975 as It’s Cliff and Friends, the first episode opened with him performing Love Is All by Roger Glover and Eddie Hardin. (watch inside)
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2015-08-05
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Le Soleil in Quebec City has published not only an excellent review of the Deep Purple performance at the Festival d’été de Québec, but also did a great feature on the band in the days leading to the show. Written by Nicolas Houle, a rock journalist, longtime DP enthusiast and also a longtime THS reader. […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2015-07-22
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Roger Glover’s production work will be honoured during Soundedit’15 — the 7th International Festival of Music Producers and Sound Designers, to be held in Łódź, Poland, this October. He will receive The Man with a Golden Ear award for “entirety of achievements in a domain of music production”. He will share the honours with Sir […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2015-07-07
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Two live releases from the Now What! tour has been announced by earMUSIC. In the press release, Roger Glover writes about the albums: One band, two crowds, two countries – a tale of two cities indeed. From Germany’s Wacken Open Air Festival, one of the biggest metal festivals in the world – and a city […]
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Posted in News by Svante Axbacke on 2015-06-24
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Marking the beginning of the Mexican tour, yesterday, May 26, the band held a press conference in Puebla. Here are various bits and pieces of the proceedings. Ian Paice and Roger Glover comment on “that was then and this is now”, with Ian Gillan chiming in that the band is now looking to start recording […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2015-05-27
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Roger Glover posted some very heartwarming words on the late great B.B.King: I well remember a time in the early ’70s when Ian Paice and I shared a flat in Parsons Green. Despite, or maybe because of, the intense hard rock that we were performing on the road, we had a surprisingly eclectic listening taste […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2015-05-21
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The three 1979 Rainbow shows, first of which — Denver — was released on vinyl on May 12, will be released on CD on August 21 this year. Meanwhile, the Denver show is already also available as a digital download. The 3CD red velvet lined box will include Denver, Chicago, and Long Island shows, each […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2015-05-15
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Roger Glover and Ian Paice explaining how they see the reasons behind the band’s success. (watch inside)
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2015-05-07
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