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Audiophile In Rock is #2 on CD Universe chart

Audio Fidelity’s In Rock achieved a surprising chart success in the top sellers list of an online retailer CD Universe. As of July 29, it reached #2 interrupting a bevy of Michael Jackson’s albums.

Meanwhile this release is only at #325 […]

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Slip of the Tongue 20th Anniversary Edition

EMI is releasing a 20th Anniversary Edition of Whitesnake’s Slip of the Tongue album with audio and video bonuses. There’s no word yet on whether anything is remastered. The release dates are set for:
June 5th — Germany
June 8th – […]

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One Eye on Rock Radio

Promotion for the Ian Gillan’s album One Eye To Morocco goes into full swing. Tonight, Saturday, March 21, starting at 6pm he will appear in a 2 hour special on Rock Radio in Scotland:

Ian takes over the airwaves to celebrate […]

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Stormbringer is #2 in the charts

A week after it’s release, the remastered Stormbringer didn’t make it all the way into the BBC Top 40, but landed at a quite respectable #2 on Top 40 Rock Albums UK chart, displacing Chinese Democracy by Guns n’ Roses.

Glenn Hughes […]

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Comin’ out of nowhere

Who would have thought that a mere re-release of one of the more controversial albums in the Purple history could have chart potential?

Remastered 35th anniversary version of Stormbringer went on sale across Europe today, February 23. Usual disclaimers apply, but […]

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Love Is All in the charts

Roger Glover’s Love Is All continues to pop up in different cartoons. This version by Florabelle et la Mushroom Family has been listed for 40 weeks in the France Singles Top 100. It entered the chart at number 65 in the […]

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Coverdale picks Best Album award

Whitesnake has won the Album Of The Year for the Good To Be Bad at this year’s Classic Rock Roll Of Honour awards. Here’s a picture of one very happy Mr. Coverdale collecting the prize.

Other celebrated glitterati included Ozzy Osbourne […]

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Blackmore’s Night in the media

Blackmore’s Night enjoys coverage not only in fanzines:

Castles and Dreams DVD sold enough copies in Germany to achieve gold status. An award to that effect was presented to the band on September 3rd at the Aegi Theater in Hannover. […]

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Good To Be Bad in the charts (update)

Here’s an update of the Good To Be Bad charts position:

UK

#1 in Top Rock Albums (week ending April 27, the chart wasn’t updated on May 4)
#7 in Top Albums (week ending April 27)
#22 in Top Albums (week ending May 4) […]

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Good To Be Bad in the charts

Never underestimate the commercial appeal of a well promoted rock’n'roll with cocky lyrics!

On April 18 DPAS reported that the new Whitesnake album Good To Be Bad went to number 6 in the charts even before the UK release date of April […]

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