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Disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed

Here’s another one of them YouTube vocal coaches, who have never heard Child in Time. She starts with a promise to dissect and analyze the vocal performance and explain how to safely replicate it at home. Predictably, it ends up with the fairy lady blowing her mind up against the wall. It’s fun to observe […]

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Sweet child on the Telegraph Road

And we’ll leave you today with this little gem by Dutch artist Laszlo Buring. His specialty seems to be reimagining classic tracks in the “what-if” style of another band. Here is an example: a cover of Child in Time as if it was written by Dire Straits

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Even distribution of awesomeness

We’ll leave you on this warm summer night with a video of a vocal coach commenting on Doing Their Thing performance of Child in Time (which is very à propos for the birthday boy)

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The Hollywood minute of summer 2025

CNN has a 100-second report on Deep Purple, during which they manage to cover all the major things that are happening to the band this summer — the Stranger Things tie-in, Made in Japan and Rapture of the Deep reissues, mention that the band is still going strong and working on new music, and interview […]

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Acts to watch out

Couple of items found in the mail to our slightly neglected trainspotting department. Another Netflix series made use of a Purple track. This time it’s Smoke incorporated into the trailer of The Waterfront, premiered in June

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Curioser and curioser

[Updated Jul 17 with media reactions] The official teaser for the season 5 of Netflix horror/fantasy series Stranger Things has a familiar theme for the soundtrack.

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Line of struggle

Former Sabaton guitar player and current Majestica frontman Tommy Johansson has posted his cover of Child in Time a-la Power metal style, with plethora of guest appearances. Check it out if you’re a fan of the genre.

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But we won’t go into that…

Ritchie Blackmore recalls the story of how Child in Time (née Bombay Calling) came into being.

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Elegant precision

We haven’t seen opera singers being properly awestruck by our boys doing their thing in a while on these pages, so here you go.

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Blind man shooting at the world

Child in Time and Flight of the Rat are featured in the new action flick The Creator, released to theatres on September 29. Both can be heard on the car stereo while the protagonist (played by John David Washington) is driving the sufficiently retro pickup truck, escaping from the bad guys. Both tunes can only […]

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