Metaltalk has an illustrated review of Glenn Hughes doing his Deep Purple set at the Maid of Stone Festival on July 22: Maid Of Stone – Saturday. By the time the Headliner, Glenn Hughes, arrived, we had stopped caring about the rain and the weather. Many had since departed, yet those who stayed to the […]
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Posted in DP related reviews, News by Nick on 2023-07-30
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Geir Myklebust posts on his blog a Rainbow Rising review by Geoff Barton that first appeared in the issue of Sounds from May 22, 1976: “WITH RAINBOW’S music I intend to carry on and expand upon the essence of Deep purple — aggressiveness — and at the same time add a kind of medieval feel […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2023-07-25
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RAMzine has a preview of the updated edition of Illustrated Biography, listed by the publisher as slated for shipping in September/October 2023. The book is now called Deep Purple – The Visual History 1968-76. Unlike many other similar books about bands of this stature, this isn’t just a collection of pictures. The contents are divided […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2023-07-16
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Rufus is gearing up for another photo book — this time it’s Portraits of Rainbow — The Dio Years with words by Geoff Barton. From the publisher blurb: Portraits of Rainbow – The Dio Years book is a photographic celebration of Ritchie Blackmore’s supergroup, formed in 1975 by the guitarist as he left Deep Purple […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2023-06-23
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A three part documentary about the Montreux Jazz Festival, titled They All Came Out To Montreux, will air in the UK on BBC Four starting at 10:15 PM on June 16. The film was directed by British filmmaker Oliver Murray. If you are interested in music documentaries, you might have seen his previous works Ronnie’s […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2023-06-08
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A local paper out of UK, The Hunts Post, reports that Don Airey is spearheading a campaign to save his local pub in Great Gransden, Cambridgeshire, as a live music venue. The pub used to host gigs regularly until 2018, when the new owners moved in. The business didn’t survive the pandemic. The current landlords […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2023-05-27
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The latest issue (#312) of the Classic Rock magazine has making of Machine Head as the cover story. How many times does a freak accident change the course of hard rock history? Not all that often, we’d wager. But had a suspended ceiling in a Swiss casino not caught fire, then Deep Purple’s sixth studio […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2023-03-03
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Another article from the New Musical Express issue from September 29, 1973. This one unveils the new Deep Purple lineup that became known as Mark III.
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2023-02-21
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Glenn Hughes will continue his 50th anniversary of Burn tour with 11 dates in the UK in October. The tour starts on October 10 in Holmfirth and wraps up on the 29th at the Manchester Academy. Soren Andersen on guitar, Ash Sheehan on drums, and Bob Fridzema on keyboards will round up the band. Special […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2023-02-21
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A vintage interview with a freshly purplerised (is that a word? it is now!) Glenn Hughes, that originally appeared in New Musical Express on September 29, 1973: He’s got one of the best voices in modern music and he is also an accomplished bass player – but what did he listen to himself when he […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2023-02-19
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