Putting BBC to shame both in depth and breadth, Andi Fox from the Welsh community radio GTFM interviewed David Coverdale for his weekly Rockshow last Thursday. David talked about the UK tour, live album releases, nice memories of Jon Lord, …

A brief …

Classic Rock Magazine has an online poll for the Track of the Week and Vincent Price is in the running. Vote here.

Besides the show from Copenhagen recorded on March 1, 1972, …

Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info and to Ania Rock for uploading the video.

Steve Morse spoke to Something Else! Reviews about the new album and the late Jon Lord:

NICK DERISO: Over the years, you became very close with (late co-founding keyboardist) Jon Lord. It must have meant a lot to you to

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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 …

Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen for the info.

Frontiers Records has announced digital release of the first single from the new Blackmore’s Night album Dancer And The Moon. The track is called The Moon Is Shining (Somewhere Over the Sea):

[It is] based on an old

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1. The Star of my Secret Arts
2. The Wish (feat. Paice & Airey)
3. Never
4. My Loneliness (feat. Airey)
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All in all, I must say it’s rather well done, considering the …

The promotional video for Vincent Price was shot at the Berlin Dungeon. Check out pictures of the shoot in Berliner Morgenpost and on Facebook.

Hmm, I wonder if they’ve run into Blackmore there…

Thanks to Peter and Yvonne …

This list is being continuously updated. Progress of the album in charts around the world is neatly summarized here.

The first week of Now what?! out in the wild is over and the first official chart positions accounting for …

Members of the band alluded in the interviews that a new setlist will be rehearsed before touring starts in earnest with more songs from Now what?! incorporated into it. Ofcourse, we all want the whole album played live. But let’s …

David Coverdale gave an interview to the Metal Express Radio. He spoke about his new live releases, the upcoming British tour, his humble beginnings in Redcar, his family, and Jon Lord:

MER: Jon Lord has been a really big loss

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This is confirmed by Media Control, who says this is the seventh time Deep Purple hit the number one spot in Germany. (Seventh Heaven?)

In …

Virgin radio Italy (in English with Italian subtitles):

GTFM Rockshow on BBC Welsh community radio used prerecorded interviews from the EPK: listen here (MP3, 22 min).

Thanks to Yvonne …

Thanks to Jorge Botas for the info.

Interview to TV channel Rossija …

Coverage of the “top of the mountain” gig in Ischgl on April 30 from Austrian TV channel ORF. Watch it on their website.

More video coverage from MomentumSki:

Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen for the info.

Metak Shrine has a rather interesting interview with Joe Lynn Turner:

Looking back on your career, do you feel there´s one album or a specific song where you feel you really nailed it?

JLT: According to most people… for a

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It’s not that often that you read a reveiew of an album (any album) that is so eloquent that it makes you wipe that grin off your face, put everything aside and listen to the said album again.

Cory Frye’s …

Don Airey was interviewed by Classic Rock Revisited. he talked about Now What?!, Bob Ezrin, the spirit of Jon Lord, Wurlitzers, and the great guitar players he worked with.

Don Airey had the seemingly impossible task of replacing

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The Armenian music school saga nears its successful completion. After WhoCares project had donated money for the school reconstruction, the donation was tripled by another charity and Armenian government, with Millbank Music from Canada donating on top of that more …

Roger Glover chats with Vintage Rock about Now what?! from his home in Switzerland (this was done probably before the album was released):

This is your fifth record with Steve Morse and your third with Don Airey and I have

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Music Radar has an interview with Roger Glover presented in the form of a monologue. Interestingly enough, Now what?! gets a fairly brief mention, with the bulk dedicated to Roger’s illustrious career with Purple, solo, Rainbow, as a songwriter, and …

The opening lines of First Sign of Madness set the tone for a straight forward rock’n'roll track complete with boogie …

The issue of Metal Hammer that went on sale in late March has a two page spread featuring Ian Paice interviewed by Matt Oliver of Jettback. If you have any further details, please leave a comment. Back issues can be …

Roger Glover chats with Martin Popoff about musical blitzkriegs, styles, sonics, prolific players, dull strings, abrasive admirals, leaping out, and being easy to get along with:

DEEP PURPLE’s first platter in eight years, NOW What?!, began life on the internet

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Ian Paice will be inteviewed on French Metal XS show on May 2 during a Deep Purple special (presumably timed to promote Now what!?). Metal XS is part of L’Enorme TV network. If you know the details, e.g. what …

Now what?! has been released in a number of countries today, April 26, and is charting very well on Amazon.de. At the time of this writing (23:43 CEST) the limited edition is at #2 in overall album chart (with only …

Not to distract you all from the enjoyment of the new album, but it was announced today that Steve Morse with his band will be supporting Joe Satriani on the latter’s upcoming tour of the United States. (Or shall we …

A Simple Song

This was Rog playing a dyad riff on the bass. We had a lot of variations on that part. Whenever anybody brings in an idea, they

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Today, April 24, the band also appeared on the German TV show TV Total. They performed Hell to Pay live (and not All the Time in the World as was announced earlier). Watch it on ProSieben.de

Thanks to Milan …

A long(ish) and rather interesting interview with Roger Glover on Rockpages.gr:

Rockpages.gr: What really surprised me in the new album is that you weren’t afraid to have long tracks, longer than regular 4, or 5 minute rock songs, you

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Deep Purple performed All the Time in the World this morning, April 24, live on Geman TV show Morgenmagazin. You can view the perfomance at DasErste.de

Thanks to all who reported it.

Made In Japan is currently #2 in a new Greatest Live Albums Of All Time poll at British music magazine NME.

Why don’t we all pull together to make it #1 – and bump Muse off that spot?

Worth a …

Erm, shouldn’t the slogan say ‘You keep on moving’?

Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen for the laugh.

While the rest of us have our patience tested, here’s photo proof from this morning…

Listen to it at wcsx.com.

Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov for the info.

I was able to hear NOW What?! before the press conference the two Ians gave in Paris two days …

OCTOBER 2012

1 Monday
Up at dawn trying different lyrics for Weirdistan. In the studio, IG starts A Simple Song and makes good progress, finishing

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Deep Purple will perform this year at the Montreux Jazz festival on July 19, with tickets going on sale in the morning of April 19. Also appearing on the bill for July 19 is a member of another band …

An audio track of …

The lead singer of Irish comedy rock superstars, Dead Cat Bounce,

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Ian Gillan gave an interview to the Ultimate Classic Rock:

How did you arrive at ‘Hell To Pay’ as the first

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Thanks to Andrey …

I have been to several concerts of DP and each concert was superbe.
The crowed was very enthousiastic and the band was playing wonderfull.
Looking forward to see them in …

Just back from Bremen, “Aladin”, after my visit to the first OTR-Concert in the north of Germany. At first: It was WOW !!!!!!

After my own long history of Deep Purple …

The single from upcoming album Now what?! — All the Time in the World got to #1 place on Classic Rock Magazine’s …

Glenn Hughes gave an interview to Australia’s Tone Deaf. He spoke about Sunbury 1975, his collaboration with Tony Iommi, writing his book, and getting clean:

I had to look at the darkest period of my life, which is ‘83

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Blackmore’s Night will release in North America their new album Dancer and the Moon on June 11 via Frontiers Records. The album will be released in two editions: a regular CD, and a digipak deluxe edition with bonus DVD. …

The official Now what?! web site has published the second installment of Roger Glover’s diaries:

AUGUST 2012
21 Tuesday

I fly to Lisbon and connect to Faro, where IG meets me. Twenty minutes to his house. He gives me warm

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The album has appeared on iTunes with about a minute and a half previews of all the songs.

Amazon UK has 30 seconds previews, albeit in piss poor quality (you have been warned).

Thanks to Randy Engman and Daniel …

A limited edition with a foil cover, it includes 12 pages of additional Deep Purple content including Q&A’s with all members

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It appears that the ill-fated appearance in Nepal, first scheduled for March 15, then postponed until April 26, now has been scrapped alltogether. Metal Hammer quotes a statement from the band’s management:

The agreed fee was not paid as per

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Marking a new first in …

I wasn’t really thrilled with the idea

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Metal Shrine has a very interesting interview with David Coverdale. He talks about his plans for the current year, Whitesnake’s upcoming live albums Made in Japan and Made in Britain, embracing the Internet age, possibility of collaborations with Glenn …

Update (Mar 26): it appears that the recording has been removed from the radio station’s website.

Argentinian radio station Vorterix has broadcasted a 13 minute preview of Now what?! with a lot more music than what we have been exposed …

Some time in late May / early June 2011 Ian Gillan spoke to the Queen’s Park Rangers fan club, as he is an avid supporter of QPR himself for many years. he shared bits of anecdotage about his decision to …

Don Airey spoke to AsiaOne before the Singapore gig earlier this month and when the topic of conversation turned to the Rock’n'Roll HoF, shared this:

Newman’s fantastic but he’s not really a rock act, is he? Neither is Donna Summer,

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The blurb:

Deep Purple were

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Now what?! promotional campaign is upon us and Big Ian spoke to Noisecreep. He talked about Bob Ezrin, garage bands, Cliff Bennett, Rock’n'Roll HoF, congregational euphoria, and his most memorable show.

Bob Ezrin, huh? Not too shabby.

Between you

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The track list for Now what?! has been released:

1. A Simple Song
2. Weirdistan
3. Out Of Hand
4. Hell To Pay
5. Body Line
6. Above And Beyond
7. Blood From A Stone
8. Uncommon Man
9. Après Vous
10. All The Time In The World
11. Vincent Price
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David Coverdale spoke to Rock Guitar Daily and revealed that he’s still in touch with Glenn Hughes and Bernie Marsden:

Glenn….Oh bless his heart. And it’s mutual – we are the original unrighteous brothers! We speak most every day.

It

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Part 1 of Roger Glover’s diaries covering recording of the new album have been published online. The published portion covers June 24 to July 25, 2012, with hints of more to come.

24 June Sunday
Nashville. Our first day in

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In a recent interview to PremierGuitar Joe Bonamassa says that his involvement with the Black Country Communion is over:

As far as I’m concerned, my involvement is pretty much done, and I’ll tell you why: Originally, I did it for

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In case you can’t wait until Monday, audio snippets of the new Deep Purple single have been posted of a French site qobuz.com (click on ‘ecouter’ to listen).

Thanks to Martin and everybody else who reported this.

And our series “toys that sort of looks like DP related musicians” continues. We give to you, Playmobil Joe Lynn Turner!

Thanks to Doug Macbeath.

Update (Mar 10): the band’s PR people tweeted this update about radio play of the new single elsewhere:

Listen out for “All the time in the world” hits radio Monday BBC2 at 7pm uk time and Virgin Radio (rocket song,

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When Abandon was released, the American record company at the time, CMC International, had some idea of radio promotion for the disc. A couple of singles were released and they also produced a bunch of interview clips. The interviews were …

The dates in October are as follows:

SATURDAY 12 – 02 APOLLO MANCHESTER
SUNDAY 13 – GLASGOW CLYDE AUDITORIUM
TUESDAY 15 – BIRMINGHAM NIA
WEDNESDAY 16 – …

Adelaide

Australia

The boys back in town to play a great piece. Have been a great follower from a far, back from 72ish, when i saw them in Melbourne in the Blackmore era.
Steve Morse is a legend …

Dubai’s The National has a short but sweet interview with Ian Gillan. He talks about the benefits of being older, the new album, holding up cigarette lighters, the leapfrogging equipment, being snubbed, and factual accuracy of Spinal Tap.

On not

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David Coverdale gave an interview to The Rock Pit, in which he reveals that Made in Japan (due April 19th in Europe, 22nd in the UK, and 23rd in North America, via Frontiers Records) will be followed in …

Brisbane Entertainment Centre

Brisbane

Australia

Great to see DP at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre Brisbane. This venue seems to pump up the volume more than other venues in our city.A nice a nd loud set which is a …

Music Radar has an interview with Glenn Hughes, from which we learn what he thinks of his days in Deep Purple, as well as the nerdy stuff like the fact that Geezer Butler has Glenn’s old Rickenbacker. And he …

German promoter KBK has announced the first tour dates of what is billed as Deep ?urp!e Now What?! tour. The German leg will start in Dresden on October 22 and finish in Mannheim on November 2, covering 8 major cities …

EarMUSIC has circulated a press release confirming the title of the new Deep ?urp!e (sic!) album:

Deep Purple announce the first studio album since 2005 and reveal details for the first double A-Side single to be released on March 29th.

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The official Deep Purple Facebook page has got a new logo reading Now What?! In what we’re sure, is a total coincidence, the mysterious site deeppurple2013.com is also accessible as deeppurple-nowwhat.com. Both domains were registered on the same day …

Deep Purple gave a press conference in Dubai ahead of the first show of the tour. Looks like everybody had a lot of fun, however only Ian Gillan’s answers were published.

On the favourite song to perform:

No. The show

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The Emirates’ Khaleej Times has a brief interview with Don Airey. Reflecting on the differences in the music scene between now and ‘back then’, he says:

I hear some good things, but I don’t hear anything like I used to

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It looks like “smoke and mirrors” is the theme of the record company promotion campaign for the new Deep Purple album. After unveiling the new mysterious web site about a month ago, we were left with (literally) a big question …

In anticipation of the kickoff of the world tour (as festival appearance in India has been cancelled) TimeOut Dubai publishes an interview with Roger Glover, where he displays quite a bit of humility:

I don’t believe we sold 100

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Whitesnake will be releasing a new live album on April 3 titled — wait for it — Made in Japan. It is a recording of Coverdale & Co. at the Loud Park Festival in Tokyo on October 15, 2011. …

More information here : www.ticketline.co.uk.

Update (Feb 12): the tourdates have been confirmed by BN management. The …

After the fantastic success with the Lego Blackmore, other toy companies want a piece of the pie. Above is Playmobil’s version.

As well as a new album launch site, http://www.deeppurple2013.com there are also new Facebook pages, and a …

Australian …

The full …

Purpendicular consist of UK and European musicians with the ability and determination to perform …

“On January 10th you left us!
Only a few days after your accident in Caux-sur-Montreux, …

As temperatures are reaching to world record highs in Australia, The Bureau of Meteorology’s interactive weather forecasting chart needs to be updated with new colours and one of them was decided to be Deep Purple. Especially fitting since Deep …

One can hardly imagine how difficult the logistics of such …

In his new interview with 100% Rock (out of Perth, Australia), Ian Gillan talks about the late Jon Lord, the upcoming Down Under tour, having his first joint at the tender age of 38, being pigeonholed, Tony Iommi’s health, and …

Jeb Wright of Classic Rock Revisited interviewed Glenn Hughes in an attempt to shed the light on comings and goings of the band known as BCC:

[...]Now you know why I became frustrated and went into this, “God damn it,

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Back in 2010 Exclusive Magazine did an interview with Jon Lord on the occasion of his release To Notice Such Things. They spoke about Romantic composers, Jimmy Hendrix, spirituality, English Literature, and party tricks. And a little about a …

The season is upon us and Steve Morse sends his thoughts:

Holiday Time is here. The reason I know that is that I’m home and can see all the traffic in town. Before any greetings, let me voice all of

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Roger Glover sends his traditional end-of-the-year message to the world:

From winter in Canada to another winter in France. In all, three months of touring, several hot months spent recording a new album, get the laundry done and that’s it;

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While being in Berlin right after the last tour leg, Ian Gillan spoke to ABC Brisbane’s radio show Evenings With Rebecca Levingston. A very entertaining interview covered a lot of subjects, including the parallax effect on long hair, that …

Having been to Nantes in November, I must say this was perhaps a bit weary overall, although quite nice — well, maybe it was the sunday schedule, and a …

Paris 1975 show has been re-released by the old management company Deep Purple (Overseas) as the first part of their Live Series. The tapes have been newly remixed and remastered. Double CD set includes new artwork, a 12 page booklet …

Glenn Hughes spoke to the Classic Rock magazine and revealed that it was his Twitter tirade that caused cancellation of Black Country Communion one-off gig in Wolverhampton, originally scheduled for January 5:

I was getting killed by a lot

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Classic Rock magazine has a teaser from Ian Gillan’s interview that will appear in it’s issue due to hit the newsstands on January 3. Speaking exclusively to the magazine, Gillan revealed that the new album will include 13 tracks including …

I had the chance to stand near the stage during the gig. Deep Purple gave a great concert last night in Brussels. After a powerful start (Fireball, Into the fire and Hard lovin’man), they gave us …

Early Whitesnake stalwarts Micky Moody and Neil Murray have teamed up with Chris Ousey (Heartland), Laurie Wisefield (ex Wishbone Ash, Tina Turner), Adam Wakeman (Ozzy Osbourne) and Harry James (Thunder) to form Snakecharmer. They are releasing a self-titled album …

Looks like Deep Purple are due to headline yet another jazz festival — organizers of the Dubai Jazz Festival have announced that the band will headline the 2013 event. As their appearance is scheduled for February 21, this will …

Ritchie Blackmore has donated a signed Stratocaster to a charity auction. Proceeds from the sale will go to the Sweet Relief Eastern Musicians Fund to provide food and medicine to the victims of hurricane Sandy that devastated big part …

Roger Glover has posted another progress report on the state of the new Deep Purple album:

As I stated in the last missive, after five weeks the band left Nashville with fourteen tracks all but complete. The only thing missing

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The two Blackmore’s Night shows that had to be postponed due to hurricane Sandy have now been rescheduled for December 9 in Wilmington, Delaware, and December 12 in New York City. Original tickets are valid for the new …

As the summer festival dates continue to trickle in, Deep Purple’s management has confirmed that the band will headline the Getaway Festival in Sweden on August 10, 2013. Festival passes are already on sale.

Set list : Fireball – Into the Fire – Hard Lovin’ Man – Maybe I’m a Leo – Strange Kind of Woman – The Battle Rages On – …

Joe Lynn Turner will be featured in the upcoming documentary Street of Dreams, which is currently in postproduction in Norway to be premiered at the Trondheim Dokumentarfestival on November 29.

The film is about Norwegian bass player Jan Erling …

Whitesnake will tour UK in May next year, sandwiched between Journey and Thunder, who are also on the bill. It actually appears that Journey will be headlining. Ticket presale starts November 8 at 10am, with sale to general public opening …

Martin Popoff has published a short ebook about Gillan’s album Glory Road.

In a cheeky mood, I’ve been known to call Gillan my favourite band of all time, given the insane charm of all six of their albums, the guys

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David Coverdale will be featured in a new documentary A Passion for the Vine produced by Zan Media in Novato, California. NovatoPatch has some of the backstory:

[...] Coverdale blitzes in from a private plane with what appears to be

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If the stars will align right, the world live premiere of the new Deep Purple album will happen in New Zealand, where the band kicks off 2013 touring schedule on February 24, followed by six more dates in Australia. New …

Ian Gillan did an interview for Michigan radio station WJRW. They have talked about the new album, the Ron’n'Roll Hall of Fame induction, the late Jon Lord, Jesus Christ Superstar, and some other things. You can listen to the …

The 40th anniversary release has been promoted as the reissue attraction to top them all. Well, OK, perhaps there wasn’t …

Blabbermouth reports that Ritchie Blackmore gave an interview to the VH1 Radio Network and elaborated on his stance regarding the Rock’n'Roll Hall of Fame:

I was quoted as saying I couldn’t care less about it, and, yes, I couldn’t care

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As the band has gathered in a Russian studio to rehearse for the upcoming tour, Roger Glover spoke to ITAR-TASS. Here are the highlights (in reverse translation, so take it with a grain of salt):

• There are 14 tracks
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Rufus Stone has announced that the signature edition of the California Jam photo book will now come with four autographs: by Jon Lord, David Coverdale, Glenn Hughes and Ian Paice. The signature edition is limited to 350 copies and costs …

More dirty laundry is being aired in the Black Country Communion camp. Joe Bonamassa spoke to the Music Radar and made his frustrations public:

The state of things is the same as it was a month ago. You know, if

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Another all-star album with Steve Morse participation — this one is called A Proggy Christmas. Brainchild of Neil Morse, it features some of the finest names in, naturally, prog rock — Mike Portnoy (ex-Dream Theater), Steve Hackett (ex-Genesis), Roine …

Blackmore’s Night is releasing a box set titled The Beginning containing their first two albums and two live DVDs — Live In Germany 1997-1998 and Under A Violet Moon — Castle Tour 2000, packaged in a velvet box. Both …

Steve Morse has contributed to the new all-star jazz-rock/fusion album The Fusion Syndicate, available October 16, 2012 on Purple Pyramid Records. Other contributors to the album from the extended Purple family include Billy Cobham, Derek Sherinian, and Jerry Goodman.…

Looks like Blackmore has recently granted one of his rare interviews to the Billboard, and bits and pieces of it continue to surface here and there. Here’s another quote, this time about the new Blackmore’s Night album:

From my point

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Billboard has a quote from Ritchie Blackmore regarding Deep Purple’s nomination into the Rock’n'Roll Hall of Fame:

Personally, I couldn’t care less. I would never go. I’m not really a fan of that stuff. Considering some of the people that

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