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Bed and a book
Ian Gillan was interviewed by The Guardian. The interesting tidbits (among the old anecdotes previously seen elsewhere) are that he is in touch with Blackmore:
Ritchie has nothing electronic in his house – no computers, no telephones, nothing like that. So he’s completely unreachable. But we do pass messages, and the atmosphere is quite good.
…and how he spends his time after a show these (pre-pandemic) days:
Bed and a book. I realised some years ago I had to radically change my lifestyle, because you can’t sustain it as you get older. When they stopped smoking in bars, that’s what did it for me, because I enjoyed a cigarette with my drink, just calming down and having a chat after the show with the guys. And then suddenly you couldn’t smoke, and I thought, ‘Good time to bin it, really.’ So I stopped going to the pub and I stopped drinking after the shows. Now I carry a kettle, a little mobile kettle, and I come back and have a cup of tea.
Read more in The Guardian.
Thanks to Hein Bierman for the info.
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Oh, come on. Ritchie and Candice streamed several times during lockdown this spring — completely unreachable, with no phones?
October 12th, 2020 at 18:47‘no computers’ really? How did he and Candice manage their in house lockdown broadcasts on youTube then? 😁
October 12th, 2020 at 19:00I was wondering how she manages to Tweet everyday too.😄
October 12th, 2020 at 23:14I’ve seen Candice using her iPhone
October 12th, 2020 at 23:48Heard everything before in different interviews.
October 13th, 2020 at 05:46That’s a bit unfair, she thinks it’s singing 😉
October 13th, 2020 at 07:14Gary @ Kevin @ 1 & 2
October 13th, 2020 at 09:53STOP ATTACKING Ian Gillan on saying something that has been confirmed by other artists.
Unless you want to attack Joe Lynn Turner for saying exactly the same.
Peace and Love
I don’t doubt that Ritchie does not possess a smart phone but Candice is regularly on social media and David Coverdale has talked about email exchanges with Ritchie. He’s probably just told Ian he doesn’t have anything though…..🤔
October 13th, 2020 at 10:05Typical Gillan comment which needs to be taken with a barrel of salt. Great singer and lyric writer but sometimes shoots himself in the foot in interviews. Good to know he and Ritchie are at least comunicating amicably.
October 13th, 2020 at 12:01Nice to see them patch things up, before the Grim Reaper around the corner.
October 13th, 2020 at 12:30“completely unreachable” is probably metaphorically spoken =)
October 13th, 2020 at 16:02❤🎼
October 13th, 2020 at 18:54