![[hand]](/hs-pics/portraits/hands/gillan7.jpg)
![[face]](/hs-pics/portraits/faces/paice2.jpg)
Back to Budokan
The Asahi Shimbun reports that the famed Japanese music magazine Burrn! is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
It was named after “Burn,” a hard-rocking song by British band Deep Purple, under the belief that beginning a magazine’s title with the letter B promised strong sales.
The letter R is duplicated in the name to rhyme with “Kerrang!” a British rock music magazine.
The longevity and survival of the publication in the age of everything going online-only is attributed to the quality of the content — over the 40 years magazine has printed at least 5,000 original interviews with different artists.
[Editor-in-chief] Hirose, 64, said many artists preferred to be interviewed by Burrn! for its name recognition rather than by other magazines.
He said he himself has taken part in several thousand interviews.
Ritchie Blackmore, former guitarist for Deep Purple who is reputedly hard to please, lowered his guard when Hirose interviewed him.
Hirose said the three-hour-long interview with Blackmore at his home in the United States left a lasting impression on him.
Over the years, we’be certainly featured quite a few of those interviews on our pages.
Thanks to Asahi Shimbun for the info. Pictured: January 2014 magazine cover.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
“Hirose said the three-hour-long interview with Blackmore at his home in the United States left a lasting impression on him.”
November 10th, 2024 at 22:11wow… any chance we can look at this interview?
Domo arigato, Burrn!
November 10th, 2024 at 23:07I bumped into one of the Highway Star bretheren the other day, & he asked me to call in & say hello. I hope everyone are in good health & spirits… 🥃
So…. Hello! No past, no future, no regrets, only this moment in time. 🏌️
Just for the sake of it, here’s a little something that I found, especially for Uwe & MacGregor… & DeeperPurps!
https://youtu.be/fkj_M27kXjM?si=-hjHJ74EyDcAcV8v
Ritchie makes me laugh. His Missus must have a lot of patience! Bless them 💜
November 11th, 2024 at 00:40Smiles to ya!🤠
Nice to see you again Sir Richard. We are all still here, a bit like old furniture, creaky & a touch wobbly at times perhaps (well some of us, he he he) but still performing a task or two. Cheers.
November 11th, 2024 at 08:08@ 3- sorry I meant Sir Blackwood, has it really been that long? Cheers.
November 11th, 2024 at 08:11Brilliant
November 11th, 2024 at 13:08Thanks for posting …thats what gigs should be about …a little something different each night …for us all to smile about .
….And it looked like Ritchie had the biggest smile of all !
Ian Gillian on cover of burn anniversary, how do you mess that up…..i mean really !
November 11th, 2024 at 13:45That BN snippet is cute – those two get along. Nice version too though I miss Stevie Nicks’ trademark nasal delivery. Nicks was never a variable singer, but she had that one thing down pat.
November 11th, 2024 at 14:05Great clip of a smiling Ritchie! Thanks Blackwood Richmore @3….nice to have you back here on the boards!
November 11th, 2024 at 14:28@….8, Stevie Nicks more nasally back in 80″s with Tom Petty du-ettes.
November 12th, 2024 at 17:20😁 Stevie & Tom could have done commercials together for nasal decongestant spray. Or perhaps not as their joint mucosa would have likely sung “No, I won’t back down …”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlTJrNJ5lA
PS: Your bearded and eternally shades-wearing mumbler from Birmingham is somewhere in that vid too, Karin! And two Scousers as well.
November 13th, 2024 at 00:40“It was named after “Burn,” a hard-rocking song by British band Deep Purple, under the belief that beginning a magazine’s title with the letter B promised strong sales.
The letter R is duplicated in the name to rhyme with “Kerrang!” a British rock music magazine.”
You live and learn. And I thought it was plonounced ‘Bulln!’ in Japanese.
Dad joke, I know. 😑
November 13th, 2024 at 00:44Nice article, that guy is great at his job. Although printed media is gradually getting less & less these days. The digital world has become the mainstay now.
@3, I love BN & found that song was not such an odd choice, given that Candice is known for her fondness of music by Fleetwood Mac & Stevie Nicks.
November 13th, 2024 at 02:46While Stevie Nicks was of course a great vocal stylist and songwriter, by objective standards Candice has probably the more rounded and fuller voice. My wife who sings herself always says that Candice is a very accurate singer and uncannily adept at hiding those things she’s not so great at (letting BN’s female backing vocalists do those).
Praise where praise is deserved: I can’t take BN musically entirely serious, but Candice has had an impressive development as a singer given how late (and initially reluctantly) she started singing professionally. Likewise, Ritchie’s adeptness in playing acoustic instruments has improved in leaps and bounds there.
November 13th, 2024 at 13:28@3
November 13th, 2024 at 15:40Sorry, but no no, only Stevie Nicks are allowed to do that one 😄😄
@11
I have absolutely no idea which person you’re referring to Uwe 😄😄
And again, only one woman in the whole wide world can do justice to that song, and that’s me in the shower, cough,😷 I mean of course Stevie Nicks
November 13th, 2024 at 15:45I’ve found two links to check a bit more of this interviews
https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/t18669
November 17th, 2024 at 11:57https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15477250
Лепа хвала!, Ljubisa, very insightful that Blackmore interview.
November 18th, 2024 at 18:43And once again: Ritchie praises all these qualities Roger has, but not a word about his bass playing.
November 18th, 2024 at 22:53@ 17 – thank you for the Blackmore interview, much appreciated. That is the most I have ever heard from Blackmore in regards to that TBRO album. Cheers.
November 18th, 2024 at 23:08