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Official Deep Purple video channel

The brand new official Deep Purple video channel has opened: Encompassing the band’s ongoing 42 year career, and backed by multi label collaboration, Deep Purple is proud to release DPTV as part of the growing MUZU phenomena: http://www.muzu.tv/deeppurple MUZU.TV is a video streaming site dedicated to music. MUZU.TV serves high quality video and provides a […]

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Making of the Butterfly Ball

Very interesting interviews with Roger Glover, Ronnie Dio, Eddie Hardin, Ray Fenwick, and Alan Aldridge (author of the book). This was filmed circa 1999 (a poster of a 1999 DP gig in Hamburg can be seen at one point).

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Warren Haynes in Amsterdam

Last night in Amsterdam Warren Haynes of Gov’t Mule fame joined Deep Purple on stage for a jam over Black Night. Pictures and videos from the show are already surfacing.

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Triple Trouble competition

Caramba gives you a chance to exercise your wit and win a signed copy of Triple Trouble: Win a signed copy by answering the simple question: ‘How many songs has ig written and why? Obsessive attention to detail not necessarily rewarded. Answers, not on a postcard, to: HERE We’ll leave you with this piece of […]

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Lemmy on Blackmore

The following feature may contain references to sex, drugs and rock’n’roll. Oh, and some bad language too. Dig in!

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Fires at Midnight in Chicago

Ten days ago I was in Chicago to see Blackmore’s Night with a couple of my friends. We drove 2,600 km (that’s 1,600 miles in medieval units) for that gig and to catch Steve Morse Band in Toronto on the way back next day. Was it worth it? Absolutely. On both counts. You see, lots […]

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The finger fell off…

This is an interview that Gillan and Glover did circa 1987 for the German TV. Make all you want out of it, but I’ve found it, ahem, entertaining 😉

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Smoke on l’Humanité

Last weekend Deep Purple played at the Fête de l’Humanité festival just outside Paris. This cheeky video ad for the festival aptly illustrates how the music we love transcends ages, races and, ahem, political persuasions.

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Made in Wales

Back in 2003 ITV1 Wales did a documentary on Roger Glover. Now, with it’s appearance on Youtube, all of us who missed it on TV and on the bootlegger’s grapevine, have a chance to see it.

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The Great Wide Open

On June 13 Deep Purple played at the Great Wide Open festival in a small picturesque town on Mühldorf in Bavaria, about an hour or so outside of Munich. It was a very enjoyable show, I’d even dare to say one of the best ones that I have seen (and I’ve seen my fair share). […]

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