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Hopes and revelations
More Purple coverage in the press, albeit not quite on the magazine covers level.
MOJO issue 369 (August 2024, with Stevie Nicks on the cover) has an extensive interview with the junior pole-vaulter-turned-vocal-acrobat Ian Gillan, covering his career from the first interests in music up to the present day.
From Hounslow to the Lake Geneva shoreline, Deep Purple’s air raid siren recounts a hard rock life. “You’ve got to get outside of a formula,” he tells Mark Blake.
Uncut magazine reviews =1 in their August 2024 issue, and places it under the “revelations” moniker (probably for the first time since Paicey was half Simon’s age).
Over in Germany, Hardline magazine also reviews =1 in their issue 62 (July-September 2024), gives it 10 out of 10, and concludes with
A really great album, which hopefully won’t be the quintet’s last.
Thanks to Marcelo Soares and Tobias Janaschke for the info.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
It’s great to see ze Pürps get some media recognition.
Finally. Better late than never.
July 3rd, 2024 at 20:33Now What ?!
July 6th, 2024 at 09:59Portable door is still getting airplay on planet rock, I don’t think Lazy sod has made the playlist yet. Radio 2 have yet to back the new songs like they did with whoosh.
July 7th, 2024 at 08:56