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Mitzi Dupree’s old haunt closing down

Kamloops Daily News in British Columbia reports:

She was going to a mining town
Way up north to do her show
I said ‘It must be cold up there’
She said, ‘It depends on who you know’
— Lyrics

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Jon Lord memorial in Warsaw

A second Jon Lord memorial concert will take place in Warsaw, Poland, on July 20, at the Club Proxima. The band Made in Warsaw, comprised of members of Panteon, Night Mistress and few other Warsaw rock bands, will …

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Exquisite synchronicity

Deep Purple opened the next min-leg of tour and they have included three new songs in the setlist: Vincent Price, All the Time in the World and Body Line. These were performed in Rabat and Kavarna, with …

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Dandies in the Aspic

Uncut magazine had a short mention about Deep Purple and fashion in the late sixties in their December 2010 issue with quote from Jon Lord:

That leather coat cost more than I’d earned in my entire life. It was all

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Here we go again

On May 23 Whitesnake show in Manchester Bernie Marsden joined the “new new” band on stage for performances of Fool for Your Loving and Here I Go Again:

Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info and to mick parry for …

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Rock’n'roll at 1 o’clock in the afternoon

Anastasia Kuvaldina and Andrey Gusenkov sat down to talk with both Ians when the band was in Moscow earlier this month. The interview was done for the Russian radio station Rock FM, and now they have kindly offered us …

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What do you think of Now what?!

The new album has been out for a while now, the dust seems to be settling down, and it’s time for another poll here at The Highway Star.

We tried to put together a variety of the most often expressed …

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Forever Deep

Italian tribute band Forever Deep has put out an album of original material with Ian Paice and Don Airey guesting on several tracks:

  1. The Star of my Secret Arts
  2. The Wish (feat. Paice & Airey)
  3. Never
  4. My Loneliness (feat. Airey)
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Behind the music documentary

Behind the music documentary which was recently shown on VH1 in the US has been posted on Youtube. Act fast before Powers That Be(tm) take it down.

All in all, I must say it’s rather well done, considering the …

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Paicey has his own beer

Castle Rock Brewery from Nottingham has a series of one-off seasonal beers dubbed Nottinghamian Celebration Ale named after famous people born in town and beyond. This spring offering on tap: Ian Paice Celebration Ale. The beer is described as a …

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