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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 […]
Read more »Louder Sound prints some quotes from a 1975 vintage Blackmore interview that originally appeared in the inaugural issue of the International Musician and Recording World magazine: Assessing some of his peers, Blackmore confessed that he “wasn’t struck” on Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, and admitted “I never saw what was in Clapton at all.” In a […]
Read more »The Fireworks magazine, hailing from the UK, has Deep Purple as the cover story of their issue #108: The evergreen Deep Purple are our cover stars, providing us with an amazing three-page interview courtesy of the great Ian Gillan – as interviews go, it’s an unmissable one covering album names, band members and producers! The […]
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 »Straight for our trainspotting department, Louder Sound has a nostalgic piece dealing with the bad old times: Back when the UK still had weekly music magazines – iconic titles such as Kerrang!, NME, Melody Maker and Sounds – having rock stars visit the editorial offices to review singles by their peers was always an entertaining […]
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