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Get yourself tangled up
Ian Gillan contributed vocals to a track on a new album from Italian band UROCK. The band is led by singer Umberto Urock, and the track in question is called The Line, which is the title track of the band’s second album.
Umberto lives just down the road from me in Portugal. He did a couple of interviews with me for various magazines, and UROCK did the Portuguese show on DEEP PURPLE’s tour [in 2022]. But the main thing I remember is when I went to Rome, I went to the radio station [Rome Rock, which Urock is involved in]. It was just like going to someone’s house, just a bunch of fantastic people.
They sent me some music they’d written. I thought: ‘That’s pretty good.’ One thing led to another, so I went in the studio down the road and sang on the track.
I would say to all the rock fans out there, you’ve just got to get yourself tangled up with ‘The Line’ and with UROCK. It’s fantastic. I wouldn’t have got involved in this had it not been a great tune, had they not been a great band — and I’m very proud to be on the video and on the recording. So get out there and get involved.
The album is coming out in early 2026.
Thanks to Blabbermouth for the heads-up and quotes.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
And so the seasons change: Big Ian sings a duet with another singer and does the lower, not the higher parts – changing of the guard so to say.
But it sounds real good, even echoing WDWTWA‘s Place in Line a bit.
December 13th, 2025 at 00:42I like it. Nice riff and good harmonies.
December 13th, 2025 at 00:47I LOVE THIS!💜💜💜💜💜
And of course Ian’s voice is beautiful and together with the other vocalist from Urock they’re really going places 😃
I was sort of expecting a horrible Christmas song with jingle bells and everything, so man I’m happy they turned all rock and no sentimental stuff 😄
December 13th, 2025 at 05:35Cool!
Uwe, +1 on the Place in Line echo, I also got reminded of it
December 13th, 2025 at 06:35Good tune!! Nice job by Gillan!
December 13th, 2025 at 11:10Bazmeg, ez az ember autentikus. Kezdem erteni Karint.
December 13th, 2025 at 13:04I like this stuff and I am very happy to note that Gillan is able to read (with his glass) that means for me that the situation is not so bad we read in the recent past.
December 13th, 2025 at 13:53I wiggle in my chair
December 13th, 2025 at 15:16Can I buy you a beer?
What a guy
Time of closure for this generation, for them extraordinary people, anglosaxon rockers. Coverdale: sisters of the snake, obedient serpent and all that efemer smalltalk… i like to think he realised how much it was worth and closed the door on those crazy little things. Gillan, a blind man, soldiers on trying to find something under the carpet.
December 13th, 2025 at 15:45This song remember me a part of Cryn’InTheRain…
December 13th, 2025 at 17:46Ian sounds good. But boring mid-tempo song
December 13th, 2025 at 18:25Re the video above:
At 0:20 Ian reveals what I find a tremendous discovery! The great man does not – and I repeat NOT – drink tea….. no he drinks coffee, neat – no sugar 😃
As Uwe over and over have said: my work here is done!
December 14th, 2025 at 08:55Great performance by IG… again!
Interesting to note how he gillanized the track, they’ve talked about it in interviews but you can also hear it.
Not sure about the other singer (though I remember his interview during the NW?! promotion campaign) but nice from Ian to accept.
December 14th, 2025 at 10:33Did Ian Gillan sing something about standing in line in ‘Who do you think we are?’ or am I mistaken 😉
December 15th, 2025 at 19:33Like Ian Paice once said ‘All the cords and notes are all written before’ and I would say all Lyrics are written before.
Who cares anyway as music is free for all.
Peace ✌️
I had missed this news on the site, and yesterday after I saw the video on YouTube, I wrote to Swante to report it!
Anyway, the beautiful thing is the spirit of this little band of ordinary people who go to work every day, but have a passion for music that keeps them alive, and a rock God, our BigIan, arrived to make them realize a little dream
the story behind the scene:
https://youtu.be/EtMtAC4tM7Y?si=udsyEf7mbGFtm70i
https://youtu.be/vwYyAkubRV4?si=d5xKSxVneyY3yB73
and some cordial conversation with our great gentleman:
https://youtu.be/36a_76_7Hak?si=VNHTK21DDmnTODPG
https://youtu.be/xOI6rv44Tvs?si=P4uxazk1Fp5mjVGn
https://youtu.be/Mi-OtiEEzss?si=odhF1_GxVlUyybNf
https://youtu.be/nsRixIZs8gA?si=BWejt8eIAAZsKtzM
December 21st, 2025 at 22:05