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Smoke inna reggae style

From the Yet Another Smoke On The Water Cover department, we present you Smoke On The Water done by funky Elvis and a band called Dread Zeppelin. Their specialty is Zep (and other classic rock covers) inna reggae style.

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Now we going to the palace…

Since our favourite rumour mistress is on extended vacations on a private exotic island, I’ll have to do the honours of spreading the gossip myself.

As we’ve mentioned previously, Deep Purple plays an important role in the bizarre world of Russian […]

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Hush in Jaguar commercial

The New Jaguar XF TV commercial in the UK has the ‘68 version of Hush as its sound track:

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Smoke on the Leningrad Cowboys

The depths of Youtube never cease to amaze me… Smoke on the Water soviet hillbilly kitsch style. This one is performed by a band from Finland called Leningrad Cowboys:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veOz9CjTedU[/youtube]

Thanks to Doug MacBeath for bringing this up for your […]

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大江戸の火消し — Firemen of Edo

From the bizzare covers department The Highway Star is proud to present you this gem:

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JLT with Scrap Metal Band

Joe Lynn Turner did a couple of dates recently with an outfit known as Scrap Metal Band. Tracy Heyder was at one of the shows and reports:

On Dec. 15th, what turned out to be the ’80s rehash band known […]

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Dorset Wildlife auction

Despite the, ahem, dubious artistic merits of Ian Gillan’s drawing auctioned on eBay for the Dorset Wildlife Trust, it fetched a whopping £225. To put things in perspective, the Trust auctions in the past weeks offered a number of drawings by […]

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Good morning, Discovery!

NASA has a long standing tradition of greeting every morning the astronauts in space with music:

Use of music to awaken astronauts on space missions dates back at least to the Apollo Program, when astronauts returning from the Moon were […]

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It’s A Beautiful Deep Purple Day

Deep Purple never made a secret of the fact that the tune for Child in Time was borrowed from the song Bombay Calling that appeared in 1969 on eponymous album by It’s A Beautiful Day. Let’s take a look at […]

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Joe Meek movie

“Telstar”, a movie about the famous 60-s music producer Joe Meek (with a Purple connection), began filming in London this month. Both Meek’s studio and Mrs. Shenton’s shop were recreated further along Holloway Road, complete with the neighbouring bank. The movie […]

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