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Best British Band and Album
Deep Purple have picked up a couple of Planet Rock The Rocks awards on the strength of their 2017 performance — Best British Band and Best British Album for the inFinite. Unlike some other industry awards that we know, these are decided by the fan vote “as a welcome antidote to the pop music back-slapping”.
Other winners include:
BEST INTERNATIONAL BAND – Foo Fighters
BEST INTERNATIONAL ALBUM – Foo Fighters Concrete & Gold
BEST WORLDWIDE SOLO ARTIST – Alice Cooper
BEST BRITISH SINGLE – Inglorious I Don’t Need Your Loving
BEST LIVE BAND – Metallica
BEST NEW BAND – Wayward Sons
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Well earned, well deserved! It seems there are plenty of Purple People out there who know their rock music and who have spoken with their votes. It is very refreshing to witness such awards being given out based on merit, (ie): fan vote, rather than on the hype of industry insiders (rock journalists and other corporate hangers on). If Rock n Roll Hall of Fame had operated based on fan vote, Purple probably would have been inducted decades ago. Good on Planet Rock for a reversal of that trend.
February 26th, 2018 at 20:07Ils sont les meilleurs depuis longtemps… enfin la reconnaissance.
February 26th, 2018 at 21:28I say, well done old chaps!. Congratulations are definitely in order… this certainly is a most splendid result for you all, indeed. Now, anyone for a really nice hot strong cup of tea & a watercress sandwich?!.
February 26th, 2018 at 23:11How about Glenn Hughes? Did he even come second or. Third in any of the categories!!
February 27th, 2018 at 03:52Dopo 50 anni ancora i migliori la classe non è acqua 👍👍
February 27th, 2018 at 08:02Yes!!!!
February 27th, 2018 at 08:23Are you kidding ?
Deep Purple isn’t the best British band, it’s the best band in the world !
For decades I’ve been following them, and again and again and again they are always great!
Well I came for miles around, and I’ve said, man your music is really hot !
Cheers, Tony
February 27th, 2018 at 09:52Well deserved, and it’s great to hear from Paicey, too!
February 27th, 2018 at 12:58Yes Ian I agree ” You are a dam good band”!
February 27th, 2018 at 16:29Alright … yes : Best British Band. And like #7 said : “The best band in the world”.I agree with that. But, c’mon .. .Best British album ? Infinite? That is an album that lacks the variety, virtuosity and brilliance of “Now What” (to name the most recent album of the band) .. If it were not for the three pieces that they usually choose to play live (“Time for Bedlam”,”The Surprising” and “Bird of Prey” ) ,that album would be easily forgotten. What were the other participants in the categories of the best British album of 2017? I have listened to albums of British bands released in 2017 that are much better than “Infinite” ….
February 28th, 2018 at 12:54Infinite is one of Purples greatest albums.Hopefully there will be one more before they retire.
February 28th, 2018 at 19:04Dash it Blackers #3 but I bally well agree. A tickety-rickety-boo result and mine’s on brown bread, no crust, if you please.
February 28th, 2018 at 19:06Purple is a musician band. Many of the other bands that are winners here and are members of the hof would not even exist without Deep Purple. Deep Purple shows are always great, but every once in while they do one that is that great that it will blow you away. Watching them playing highly complex tunes with an ease that reminds one of making a cup of tea is an incredible experience. A lot of people don’t realise how slick these old dudes are. Man I wish I will be like them when I am that old.
March 1st, 2018 at 06:30They’ve been my favorite band since 1973. To me, they are the best rock band of all time!! Sorry Beatles, Zep and Stones fans.
March 1st, 2018 at 10:02Not really sure why I am surprised. It makes perfect sense.
March 1st, 2018 at 11:55Boys have done a good job, an “Infinite” very good album, four new classics: “Time for Bedlam”, “All I Got Is You”, “The Surprising” and “Birds of Prey.” “Infinite” among between ten best albums of DP all times / my ranking between 6 and 8 places /
March 1st, 2018 at 12:09Thanks to UK … for Football and Deep Purple! 🙂
Almost a year after its release,I don’t listen to inFinite very often. It didn’t grow on me.One third of it is great-Bedlam,The Surprising,Birds Of Prey.A slightly bigger chunk of it is OK-Hip Boots/Vegas/Get Me Outta Here/Johnny’s Band..(Putting Paradise Bar on the album would’ve made 5 OK songs) The remainder-On Top Of The World/Roadhouse Blues-is a double shot of terrible.
March 1st, 2018 at 15:36While I am glad for any praise Deep Purple gets as it moves ever closer to Goodbye, inFinite is not the album I’ll play to remember the last line-up.
We have to enjoy these last days when you have our beloved Purple as best British band, but I’m also far from sad to see bands like Foo Fighters, Metallica or Alice Cooper here. They’ve also been in the business for a long time. Purple was founded in April 1968 – next month we can say that this was 50 years ago. Next year it’ll be 25 years since Steve had joined the band and it’ll be 50 years ago that Ian and Roger joined for the first time.
March 1st, 2018 at 22:28Wow,I completely forgot All I Got Is You. ( I said I don’t listen to inFinite very often.) That song is solidly in the top four.
March 2nd, 2018 at 14:51Best British band ! Best British album! Cool ! The foo Fighters got best international band. Best International Album too
March 4th, 2018 at 04:45I saw where a young musician was saying most of today’s groups “have one foot stuck in the 1970s, and he proceeded to say guitars are old hat. It makes me appreciative that I’m old enough to have grown up in an era when rock and pop music were part of the fabric of life. That fabric was long ago ripped to shreds in the United States. Yes, there are still some fine bands, but mostly it’s garbage music over here. The music “industry” and the corporate beancounters killed it for good.
March 4th, 2018 at 23:38Very well deserved award!! Congrats to the band as well as Bob Ezrin and also to the fans, US if you will, for still following!! Infinite is in my opinion the best LP of the Morse era right up there with Perpendicular. I DO NOT want to start a Blackmore vs. Morse debate, we’ve been there and done that (pointless)!! Congratulations again to Deep Purple, the best band in the world, saw them in the US in 2017, hope to see them 1 more time.
March 5th, 2018 at 12:51Happy ever after.
March 9th, 2018 at 15:02mike Whiteley @ 17, I still listen to infinite every day, I love it. It’s a magnificent album. I adore ‘All I got is you’.
March 10th, 2018 at 13:11Fantastic!!!! Great to see the PURPS get their due. I sorta agree with ‘stoffer’ here regarding INFINITE. I do teeter back and forth between it and ‘Now What’. I have both CDs in my home player and set it on ‘Random Play’. Both albums go so well together and compliment each other yet are way different. As with ‘Stoffer’ we too saw Purple in 2017, at the same venue and got to hang out for a spell. Next we are going to hook up in St. Louis on May 7th to see the Purple Tribute band “Perfect Strangers”…. lookin’ forward to it Stoffer. And again…. CONGRATS TO DEEP FRIGGIN’ PURPLE!!!!!! CheerZ
March 10th, 2018 at 21:38@ 25- GREAT to see you back here,Tracy !!
March 11th, 2018 at 01:41Hope all is well with you.
Richly deserved, I must say. INFINITE is a brilliant album, although I’m not overly keen on the cover of Roadhouse Blues.
March 13th, 2021 at 16:26The other nine tracks are amazing, though.
I have been a long lasting Purple fan since I was 11 years old. My older Brother Bernard introduce me to Purple, Colosseum 2, Greenslade and Babe Ruth etc. Speed king from 24 Carat Purple converted me. My favorite drum solo is You fool no One from Made in Europe. Interestingly there early record label was called Tettragrammaton, which is the sacred name of God Jehovah. I wondered if Gillan new God’s name
October 1st, 2024 at 18:34@28
October 1st, 2024 at 20:41So nice to meet you 😊
I’ve also loved their music since I was a little girl! My mum was so worried 😄
Karin, your mom was right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxS7DtM1TZU
October 2nd, 2024 at 02:21@30
October 2nd, 2024 at 07:40😄 I guess you’re right!
But what a wonderful tune! I love the original recording where Ian G says ‘and it was nice’ – sounds so nifty 😄
@30
October 2nd, 2024 at 08:20And being raised in a house where the preferred music was that of Dorthe Kollo (I guess you know about her since she has been living in Germany for many years and performed there, wasn’t she married to a German count or something like that?) can you blame me for seeking my music pleasures in Deep Purple? 😊
Karin, I beg you, of course we had the single of René Kollo’s wife, I loved that song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqOUIPN52B8
Danish talent was always popular in Deutschland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O30iggYXKZU
When we ran out of Danish maidens, we went up all the way to Norway!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJrQiv-FHEg
Returning to the unsavory subject of Gillan’s lecherous lore of Anyone’s Daughter, I am personally convinced that he proved inspirational in a bad way for Ken Hensley who morphed the “farmer’s (or judge’s) daughter” into a “rancher’s” one after similar (mis)treatment and subsequent parental ire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsXTqjGkzLk
Your good mom tried to protect you from all this and who could possibly blame her?
Innocent times. Or ‘appy ones as Mick Box would say.
October 2nd, 2024 at 13:43@33
October 2nd, 2024 at 15:03Oohhhh you know all the schlager-singers!
Well lucky for me I had some older brothers who formed my taste in music, at least a tiny bit.
Actually one of them wrote a fake letter to me from a singer I admired very much when I was around 14 yo. Never forget the day the mailman brought me the letter! I tore it up, read it in disbelief but was sooo honoured, until I started wondering about the handwriting 😂
Oh yeah! I still have that letter 🥰 maybe that’s why I always treat the scammers on FB (there are so many who call themselves Ian Gillan! 🙄) very kindly, because they remind me of a period of innocence and lots of laughter 😄
Well thanks for a trip down memory lane.
K
Ps did you really like Gitte Hænning?…?
I have to say that Heep clip of Stealin’ ain’t a bad one considering how the band consisted at that time of a raging alcoholic (Byron), a closet heroin junkie (Thain) and a carefree cokehead (Hensley). And it’s a live performance, no lip-syncing – some bum vocal notes too and Mick Box not quite in tune on the guitar solo, but they sure make up for it with the good parts.
Always dug this three-chord goody of D, C and G (the same I-bVII-IV recipe that gave us Them’s Gloria, Traffic’s Dear Mr Fantasy, the Stone’s Sympathy for the Devil, Free’s Alright Now, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Sweet Home Alabama, Sweet’s Fox On The Run and AC/DC’s Highway to Hell). And the way Thain root-notes through it with just a stoic D for much of the song is to-die-for. Even if copped off Andy Fraser who did the same thing on Alright Now.
October 2nd, 2024 at 16:20@35
October 2nd, 2024 at 17:55Sweet’s Fox on the Run, I remember to have heard, read, been told, that the two songwriters who determined all their music ( what was their names? Chip’n’Chap? Chinnman and Chap? Chin and Chapman? Well who cares….) had been writing Fox on the Run in a more bubblegum version, but they went away and Connolly, Priest, Tucker and Scott re-arranged it and when the two songwriters came back, the single was done and it sounded WAY better than the original.
I like that 😊
Karin, I think Gitte Hænning developed more as an artist over 60+ years than AC/DC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QsO73ZqlxA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KcKcxFnnSc
Dontcha agree?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFWRK_Hfc6k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcCXru3ZtOA
Those Schlager songs are of course ingrained with my childhood and my mom’s radio blaring in the kitchen while she was cooking, why not own up to it?
October 2nd, 2024 at 18:08“Actually one of them wrote a fake letter to me from a singer I admired very much when I was around 14 yo. Never forget the day the mailman brought me the letter! I tore it up, read it in disbelief but was sooo honoured, until I started wondering about the handwriting 😂 …”
Come on, Karin, we wanna know, ‘fess up, who was it? Morten Harket from A-ha?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3ir9HC9vYg
We impart absolution even to Viking offspring here.
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October 2nd, 2024 at 20:10@37
Well I really preferred Bon Scott, especially in ‘Let there be rock’, but Bryan Johnson also has his legacy in store so to speak.
And my mind is exploding comparing miss Hænning to either men! (Even though I know you’re thinking of growth/development)
I do think you are over-simplifying owning up to our parents by accepting, no integrating their taste of music in your own ☺️
My skin crawl a tiny bit listening to those old schlagere, just like it does with the most heavy/death/trash metal! Why?, I can almost hear you ask, well, I answer, because it’s not my preferences in music.
Music is a great part of my life, but I own up to my family in other ways.
Accepting where you’re coming from, learning to live with the difficult or impossible parts is also some way of owning up 😉
Respecting your parents best efforts to do the right thing to their offspring, is another way of owning up to them, but you (or I) don’t need to remember fondly music (or art, films etc) that you really dislike.
I guess growing up, figure our for yourself who you really are is the most respectful thing you can do, because then you really show everybody that your parents hard work was rewarded: the child did become an independent person, not just a duplicate.
Another ps: the blackbirds in our part of the world seem to be dead! Some mosquitoes have been carrying a – for blackbirds – dangerous disease 😞 so no beautiful morning- and evening song outside!
October 2nd, 2024 at 20:39That is beyond sad.
@38
October 2nd, 2024 at 20:43Certainly not that A-ha singer, oh please 😝
Well it’s no secret, it was Jeff Lynne, who seemed to be very important at that time 😊
Jeff Lynne? 🤣 But he’s fugly as hell! He also suffers from a reading and writing disability – he couldn’t have sent you a handwritten letter, Dearest, even if he had tried! 😎
Yup, blackbirds/Amseln
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJi0j2lJyXs
have gotten rare here too, same reason, they used to be so prevalent. But nature is always changing and adapting. Storks have returned to Germany in masses – in the early 70ies they were almost deemed extinct. Now there are so many of them, they are becoming an issue. You know what the location with the highest stork population density in all of Europe is? A bio garbage dump site not too far away from where I live.
https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=1334×10000:format=jpg/path/s7a2482972ea61e9f/image/i176e993ab931e269/version/1612340518/image.jpg
https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=1334×10000:format=jpg/path/s7a2482972ea61e9f/image/iffc4ed7cba49f218/version/1612340948/image.jpg
And they have stopped winter migration, our winters are by now too mild and food at the dump is plentiful. Biologists have taken up watching them.
Of course, now that the storks have returned, human birth rates will also climb …
Re Fox On The Run, Karin, forgive me for busting a myth: That was never a Chinn/Chapman number, it was a Sweet group composition on Desolation Boulevard (1974) and sounded very heavy rock (a bit like a KISS number in fact, heavy-handed and all that):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERMEneOrTkI
Never intended as a single, when Sweet wanted to break free from the Chinn/Chapman Hitsville corset constraining them, they felt they could do more with the number. Enter Andy Scott in 1975 who reworked the song in the studio, tried out a new synthesizer he had just bought and commercialized it with swirling synth lines (and eradication of the original riff):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxyZ19z8uzU
Chinn/Chapman had nothing to do with it, but were magnanimous enough to call Sweet when they heard the finished product to congratulate them: “Looks like you boys have written yourselves a hit!”
In a different part of the city, a German heavy rock band named after an insect family with a painful sting was struggling. They were near bankrupt and at the verge of breaking up. Their manager had the bright idea to do a German language version of Fox on the Run which at the time under prevailing German royalty laws would have entitled them to 50% of the proceeds …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QuSlRopNR4
Not wishing to taint their name with music from a glam rock teenybopper act the band from Han(n)over used the alias “The Hunters”, tsk, tsk, tsk …
So now you know how Uli Roth sounds when he is copying Andy Scott. The Scorpions would not much later open for Sweet on one of their German tours and the two bands were said to have gotten along plenty fine. Also not much later Manfred Mann’s Earth Band tried to poach Uli Roth from the Scorpions (they had been the opening act to MMEB too), but – unlike Michael Schenker with UFO a few years before – Uli remained steadfast.
October 3rd, 2024 at 00:06@ 35 – yes those two Midnight Special Uriah Heep clips are great, genuine live ‘classic’ Heep is rare indeed. I posted those here a year or so ago & one of them, Sweet Freedom is edited twice, in the mid section & again near the end, obviously for time restraints I would imagine. A bit dodgy is the visual tape quality at times on Sweet Freedom, a shame that. Not sure about those Stealin’ lyrics being influenced by Ian Gillan. Those sort of sayings were prevalent out here in sophisticated Australia way back then & I would imagine the USA well before us. We know a thing or two about quality lingo. Oh how the British have influenced us so well, hmmmmmmmmmmmm on second thoughts! Well, what does anyone expect? Cheers.
October 3rd, 2024 at 00:51Have to laugh at one comment for the Uriah Heep live song Stealin’ video. ‘No drugs were harmed in the making of this video.’
October 3rd, 2024 at 06:03The Ken Hensley written Uriah Heep song Stealin’ has always painted a western movie scene for me, Spaghetti western even, that Mid West ranch with all & sundry. ‘Stood on a ridge & shunned religion, thinking the world was mine’. Huge properties as far as the eye can see, hence the ranch word as they are known to be. Gillan’s lyrics in Anyone’s Daughter has that English farmstead & Manor house picture for me, always has. I don’t think there is any link at all there Uwe. Fifty years ago & I was always fascinated by a story being told in the new bands music that I was being introduced to. The albums folding out with all the lyrics, wonderful thought provoking music it was & still is. Geezer’s lyrics in Black Sabbath’s songs too. My introduction to the complete package of music & lyrics that fit. I do also remember earlier popular music having it at times, The Beatles etc. But the hard rock bands a few years later, bring it on home. Cheers.
October 3rd, 2024 at 06:57I wasn’t really serious about the “molested daughter & enraged daddy’s revenge”-theme lifted by Hensley from Gillan. Heep already sang about the same thing on their debut album in 1970 with Gypsy (not written by Hensley):
I was only seventeen
I fell in love with a gypsy queen
She told me “hold on”
Her father was the leading man
Said “you’re not welcome on our land”
And then as a foe, he told me to go
He took me to a little shack
And put a whip across my back
Then told her “leave me”
I was out for quite a time
Came back with her on my mind
Sweet little girl
She means all the world
A
Oh, I want my gypsy queen
Will she still be torn between
Her father and lover
One day I will go to him
Strong enough to fight and win
The kind of a man
That he’ll understand
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Byron had a great voice and his operatics fitted Heep well, but there is hardly a live performance on YouTube with him where you see the man sober. He had issues long before they became issues for the band.
October 3rd, 2024 at 12:37@41
No he is not 😂😂😂
He can’t read music from the sheet, but he reads and write perfectly 😃😄
Sweetie, someone needs to sit you down and tell you about the birds and the bees! I have to assure you that improving in stork rate does not automatically mean there will be more babies! 🤭
I did not know Sweet themselves were behind Fox on the Run, the word around town is that the composer team made it and Sweet change it. Well what do I know…
I have never got any answer on how you feel about Monty Python 😎
October 3rd, 2024 at 14:41@45
October 3rd, 2024 at 14:44Weird how come gypsies are so interesting to make songs about.
I don’t complain, just interesting! Why not make songs about the insanely interesting Danish people 😄
“I have never got any answer on how you feel about Monty Python 😎”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrdEMERq8MA
Now you do.
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“Why not make songs about the insanely interesting Danish people 😄”
Wot? That is an utter sludder statement, Karin!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1YMv_qx5Cw
Tom Traubert’s Blues/Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Traubert%27s_Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvFyt2kmrZk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oSKWL7Ymbk
And then there is always Ottos grand “Dänen lügen nicht” !!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS9GaBs137A
No one, absolutely no one in Germany still sings the original lyric … 😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFyk4D7a0cY
And what about her, wasn’t she the most Danish you can get, scales and all?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbv_huklr5E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf7Dss2gCe0
I actually watched and enjoyed that film. I hated all the racist dog whistling on social media about Halle as the mermaid being a diversity choice because “creatures living under the sea should have lightly-hued skin”. What a load of bigoted crap.
October 3rd, 2024 at 15:40@48
🤣🤣 well I was thinking of songs with a more rockinfused theme!
Danish people don’t lie! No we don’t, why should we 😅😅
Aww the little mermaid! Have you ever seen the beautiful bronze sculpture on Langelinie in Copenhagen? She is really small and I’ve heard several tourists express disappointment because they have thought it was a colossal!
October 3rd, 2024 at 16:39I think it’s a masterpiece! (As Ms Berry is too!)
@48
October 3rd, 2024 at 16:40Oh, so you do appreciate Monty Python?
I love them heart and soul 😍
David Garrick did change his name to ‘Lord’ Byron for a reason. Cheers.
October 3rd, 2024 at 21:03Karin, I think the mermaid sculpture’s size at Copenhagen harbor is just fine, why should she be any larger, after all the Baltic Sea isn’t that deep?
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipO4iX0GX6Tsy2h4obrOxdkgl1jZBOFftlZuM2Lv=s1360-w1360-h1020
I’ve seen her a few times, she’s purdy.
October 3rd, 2024 at 23:11@52
October 4th, 2024 at 06:13Yes, she is Danish after all 😊
BBC Four are showing the Radio 2 in Concert from the Infinite tour tonight – 4th October.
October 4th, 2024 at 12:04Should also be available on iPlayer.