Don Airey took part in the recording of a classic Beatles song Help, which will be released on March 11 at the first anniversary of earthquake in Japan. The earthquake was one of the strongest in recorded history and Japanese […]

Urban Outfitters (shock! horror!) has a Deep Purple t-shirt for sale in Europe. The Chaos At A Concert male tee sports the infamous picture of the concert hall ravaged by fans after a gig on the Mark 2’s last Japanese tour […]

The long awaited Deep Purple Mark IV DVD which we detailed previously has now been completed. It will be called Phoenix Rising: The untold story of the 1975/76 MkIV world tour and release date is set for May 20th.

The Deep Purple Mark 4 documentary has been completed for release in December 2010. The exciting news are that the footage of the infamous visit to Indonesia in December 1975 has been located and will be included in the documentary. […]

In 1972 whilst in Japan for the ‘Made In Japan’ concert series , Purple also spent time at the local TV station NHK in Tokyo filming a 2 hour spot for the “Young Music Show”. Unfortunately it appears that the […]

Sadly, the Burn cover went up in smoke to the Youtube heavens (my personal wish to Warner Music and their lawyers is to go bust ASAP), but here is another one that you might enjoy.

Current Deep Purple’s front of the house soundman Gert Sanner gave a brief interview published by soundcraft.com. Among fairly technical things, he shares his memories of the recent Japanese tour:

Purple don’t use a set list, so I have to […]

Those of you who follow our weird covers semi-permanent section, have seen many a weird thing . But a high school brass band doing Purple medley must be a first. Lots of Japanese girls (that rule) playing music we […]

Japan is full of musical genius, it’s just getting lost in translation. In further establishment of the proof of this self obvious thesis, we present you with this little gem.

Two tour legs have been confirmed by Deep Purple management: 6 dates in Japan in April and 4 dates in Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia in early May. Our tour dates calendar has the details.

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