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Jon Lord: Around the world in 20 concerts

“Around the world in 20 concerts” is the title of the latest interview with Jon Lord published on his website.

Here, he talks about a busy 2009 that took him to concert stages around the world - incl. places he’d […]

New official online store launched

February 1st has seen the launch of one of the most comprehensive Deep Purple online stores to date. In a partnership that sees for the first time all associate labels working together to promote the band, this new (and official) […]

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Paice dates in Italy rescheduled

Due to “organizational reasons”, the Ian Paice & Tolo Marton February dates have been rescheduled to April.

Ian Paice & Tolo Marton Band new dates:

8th April - Gran Teatro - Padova - Italy
9th April - Muddy Waters Live Music […]

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… and on Twitter too!

The other day we jumped on to Facebook, and now we’re on Twitter as well.

Updates to The Highway Star will from now on appear also on Twitter, and as a follower of us there, you will automatically be notified of […]

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Join The Highway Star on Facebook

The Highway Star has finally found its way onto Facebook. Arguably the world’s number one social media platform, you can now hook up with us there.

Updates to The Highway Star will from now on appear also on Facebook, and […]

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The West Uzbekistan Percussion Ensemble

Back in 1970 Mike Thorne worked as an assistant at the De Lane Lea Studio in London. One day his sound recording experiment with an air conditioner became a part of Deep Purple lore:

Several massively expensive tube mics (a […]

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New tour dates and old ones confirmed

A bunch of tourdates that we had listed for a while, as well as a couple of new ones, have just appeared on the official Deep Purple site and as so are now confirmed. That includes