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Archive for October, 2025



Serendipitous Blackmore

Yahoo Entertainment has an interview with the original Wishbone Ash guitarist Ted Turner, where he explains how Ritchie Blackmore gave the band its big break: Ritchie Blackmore played a significant role in Wishbone Ash’s signing. “He did! We were supporting Deep Purple at the Dunstable Civic in the real early days, waiting for him to […]

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Track that would propel them to stardom

Louder Sound profiles Purple’s original take on Hush for their The story behind the song series, with the input from Roger Glover, of all people. The story is reprinted from the Classic Rock magazine issue #297. Recorded at London’s Pye studio in the spring of 1968, during sessions for their debut album Shades Of Deep […]

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Trousers that are too tight

Metaltalk reviews Glenn Hughes’ gig in Bristol on October 14, 2025: Gushing in his love for everyone, you sense that Hughes is as genuine as they come. And it is this warmth that makes this show special. He is still making great music and looks fit enough to go for several more rounds. Two-hour sets […]

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Still best friends with everybody

Chaoszine.net publishes an extensive and insightful printed word interview with Glenn Hughes. He explained a change of setlist for the recent Scandinavian shows (those were the dates rescheduled from his Purple tour), spoke about his latest solo album Chosen, his plans with the ever so fickle project called BCC, the best drummer he played with […]

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King David of Hollywood

Louder Sound reprints a Classic Rock feature on Whitesnake that originally appeared in their 2006 special issue Classic Rock Present 1980s. “Oooh, hello, cheeky.” David Coverdale breaks off from our interview to greet a vision emerging from one of the many fabulous bedrooms found in what was then London’s most expensive hotel room – the […]

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Grinding to a halt with comedy

A couple of Whitesnake related historical anecdotes. Simon Phillips tells a story how a cup of tea and biscuits with Roger Glover led to a gig with larger than life David Coverdale on the latter’s solo album WhiteSnake

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How many guitarists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Steve Morse was a guest on the No Cover Charge podcast, spreading nuggets of wisdom and jamming with the host.

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Sleep well?

In July 2025, Joe Lynn Turner was interviewed in Finland by the Southeast Wreckmetal podcast. The interview, where Joe shares some historical anectotage and his plans for the future, has now been posted on Youtube. For whatever reason, the owner(s) of the video have disabled playback on other sites, so you’ll have to watch it […]

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Fire in the bassement

The infamously apocryphical mark of Deep Purple performs Fire in the Basement somewhere behind the freshly fallen Iron Curtain (JLT says it’s Budapest, but the hazy memory says it was the Ostrava show that was filmed for TV).

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F*** off rock’n’roll

Here is what (from the memory that is hazy) looks like the Abandon EPK, with Ian Gillan and Jon Lord touting the latest at the time offering from the band.

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