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Don Airey’s K2 reissue

Don Airey is reissuing his 1988 solo album K2 – Tales of Triumph and Tragedy, funded through Pledge Music. Album options include signed CD with original album and 7 bonus tracks for £30 signed CD (as above) + DVD with “new performances”, interview footage, and original EPK for £35 limited edition deluxe box set for […]

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One moment can change your life

Roger Glover was a guest of Francophone TV channel TV5Monde, and his appearance turned into a mini retrospective of his incredible career.

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But are we any good?

While being in Paris earlier this month, Ian Paice and Don Airey sat down to chat with La Grosse Radio. It resulted in this very relaxed conversation where they go through several tracks of the album, explaining how these ideas were born and developed. Plus, their thoughts on the latest incarnation of Rainbow and on […]

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When Frank Zappa caught on fire

North American syndicated radio program In The Studio with Redbeard: The Stories Behind History’s Greatest Rock Bands is celebrating the 45th anniversary of Machine Head with an hour long program featuring interviews with Ian Gillan and Roger Glover about the album. The interviews are not new, so you may have heard them before. The show […]

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More magazine covers

Ian Gillan is on the cover of issue 4 (May 2017) of the Sweden Rock Magazine. Inside the magazine there is an 8 pages long feature on Deep Purple and their new album with interview and pictures, 5 pages of illustrated interview with David Coverdale, and a page worth of interview with Bob Ezrin. More […]

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Importance of a good shot in the arm

Updated: The record company has posted second and third installments of inFinite EPK with Airey, Paice, Gillan and Glover discussing the new album and tour, fragments of which that you may or may not have already heard elsewhere. (watch inside)

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Ding-dong, we have a winner

The new Deep Purple album inFinite has achieved top position in the German album charts for the week of April 7-14. It follows on the success of Now what?!, which also got to number 1 upon its release. This is the eighth number 1 Deep Purple album in the country, and the last time two […]

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Saturn exclusive for inFinite

German brick-and-mortar and online retailer Saturs carries a version of the new album that is exclusive to the chain. It contains two bonus tracks — live versions of Smoke on the Water and Black Night recorded during the Now What?! tour. Bar code number for this item is 4029759119340, while the store SKU number is […]

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Paicey and Roger on Radio Bob

Ian Paice and Roger Glover will appear on Radio Bob! in Germany tomorrow, April 16 between 10 am and noon CEDT. Said radio also broadcasts online worldwide (albeit it is not clear how much of the show will be understandable to non-speakers of German). Check out their utterly hilarious Jug band performance.

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inFinite track-by-track

Don Airey, Ian Paice, Ian Gillan and Roger Glover comment on each of the inFinite tracks (watch inside)

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