[hand] [face]
The Original Deep Purple Web Pages
The Highway Star


Alive and creative in São Paulo

Deep Purple have headlined this past weekend the Best of Blues and Rock festival in São Paulo, Brazil. This marked their first public performance since November 10, 2024. The hiatus, previously explained in an interview by Ian Paice, stems from the intention to take the live performances easy this year, playing “a day here, three […]

Read more »

Nice bell bottoms

Glenn Hughes played in São Paulo, on November 11, 2023, in the course of his Marks 3&4 tour. Red-hot chili pepper Chad Smith happened to be in the neighbourhood and sat behind the kit for a couple of tunes.

Read more »

Jon Lord on the streets of São Paulo

Two months after Deep Purple concert in São Paulo, we had the great pleasure to see another gig of Purple family in our city. Jon Lord played the the Concerto for Group and Orchestra as the opening act of Virada Cultural, a 24-hour annual event sponsored by the municipality with hundreds of cultural events around […]

Read more »

That after gig moment

Ian Gillan’s message to the fans recorded in his hotel room after the last gig in São Paulo. Kinda puts things into prospective, isn’t it?

Read more »

São Paulo: Purple always a great experience

What can I say about a Purple concert? Well, it’s always a great experience, a great show, and a fantastic performance. They started with Highway Star, and played a lot of classic songs like Strange Kind Of Woman, Perfect Strangers and Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming from the Steve Morse era. The set list was […]

Read more »

Sao Paulo feel like screaming

I want to share my experience at Deep Purple gig last night at Via Funchal, São Paulo. This is the 4th live Purple concert I attend. The first was at Ginasio do Ibirapuera 1992 (if I’m not wrong) Joe Lynn Turner era and the last three at The Rapture At The Deep Tour. Tom Brasil […]

Read more »

Going crazy with a Purple night

This was my fifth DP show and by far the greatest. The set list was fantastic, the whole band was fantastic, and the crowd got crazy. I will never forget the moment that Ian asked Steve to keep playing Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming – you guys gave us a gift! The whole band was […]

Read more »

Sao Paulo: I cried a little bit …

Rapture of the Deep’s third passage in my city. We all thought that would be nothing really new besides Mary Long and The Battle Rages On, but… here it is (read the comments after the set list): Pictures of Home Things I Never Said Into the Fire Strange Kind of Woman Rapture of the Deep […]

Read more »

||||Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
© 1993-2026 The Highway Star and contributors
Posts, Calendar and Comments RSS feeds for The Highway Star