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Another review of the Birmingham gig from November 4th, 2024. This one is for the Metal Planet Music. With the energy of the crowd now at an excitable fever pitch, the lights dimmed, and ‘Gustav Holst’s Mars’ the Bringer of War’ echoed dramatically through the arena. Images appeared on screens above the stage, each for […]
Read more »The Guardian reviews the November 6th London gig: There are certain things that have to be factored into life: Boris Johnson will self-promote; Five Guys is overpriced; and Deep Purple (and their spinoff bands) will plague the audience with solo spots. Thankfully, those solos are no longer quite as interminable as they were in the […]
Read more »Ian Gillan spoke to The Yorkshire Post: In a few days you’ll be embarking on a five-date UK arena tour. Are you looking forward to it? Absolutely. We’re very much looking forward to it. This tour actually started in May but we are finishing in the UK so we are definitely looking forward to it […]
Read more »A website aptly called Maximum Volume Music reviews the Birmingham gig of the band that once held the title of the loudest band in the world: From that song to that riff, and the main set ends with arguably the best ever, and as Simon McBride starts it up, all of a sudden the crowd […]
Read more »Ahead of the current =1 More Time UK tour, Ian Gillan spoke to the PA News Agency, and the conversation steered, of all things, onto the ’72 tour that produced Made in Japan. In Japan, I noticed the first thing was the cultural change. I was able to do two things, one to learn about […]
Read more »The physical single for Lazy Sod was released on CD and vinyl on October 11, 2024, with a whopping circulation of 2,000 copies worldwide (not clear if this is for each format, or combined total). In this day and age, even that landed it in the British charts: #21 on the Official Singles Sales Chart […]
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 »On this slow(ish) news day, we will leave you with a couple of items that the mailman delivered to our trainspotting department. Sir Elton Hercules John writes about the keyboard geniuses who blew his mind for The Guardian. Jon Lord gets a mention: And as the decade progressed, keyboard players progressed too, away from their […]
Read more »BBC Four TV channel will be showing a Radio 2 in Concert Deep Purple appearance from November 16, 2017, playing in front of a live audience at the BBC Radio Theatre. It will air on October 4, 2024, at 22:05 local time, and will be available on the BBC iPlayer for 30 days after that. […]
Read more »This is straight from the desk of bizarre appearances in our trainspotting department. Some time over the past year, crooks posing as Ritchie Blackmore scammed an old lady in the UK out of £115,000. See the maestro himself appearing at around 12:40 expressing sympathy for the victim and vehemently denying his involvement because he doesn’t […]
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