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Rock Overdose has recently spoken to Joe Lynn Turner and has published a teaser for the upcoming interview. The teaser, naturally, features Joe explaining how he didn’t get the latest Rainbow gig: I’ll tell you what happened. And that’s the short story. For over a year I was talking with his management and we wanted […]
Read more »Blabbermouth has quotes from Blackmore’s interview to Dutch magazine Aardschok. We presume that the interview in question is the one that appeared in the January-February issue of the magazine, and that the quotes were translated back from Dutch. Here’s what we can learn from the interview: He thought on and off about going electric for […]
Read more »Joe Lynn Turner recently gave an interview on Eddie Trunk’s satellite radio show, and Blabbermouth has big chunks of it transcribed. And what is transcribed is mostly JLT taking pot shots at Blackmore for excluding him from the Rainbow comeback, and insisting that he’s not feeling sour grapes at all. I thought it was a […]
Read more »Glenn Hughes US tour dates for march this year had to be rescheduled for August / early September due to his slow recovery from a recent double knee replacement surgery. Most of the dates have been successfully moved, with a handful that had to be cancelled. We can only presume that original tickets will be […]
Read more »Ronnie Romero, the singer in the latest incarnation of Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, has spoken to Metal Shock Finland about his appointment and first impressions of working with the legend Ritchie is: We had some jamming sessions and some new ideas for the songs. Ritchie is different from what the people think – it’s very easy […]
Read more »Four fifths of the Mark 2 (Gillan, Glover, Paice, and Jon Lord’s estate) issued an official response to the news that their former management companies DP(O) and HEC went into administration: It has come to our attention that two companies, Deep Purple (Overseas) Ltd (“DPO”) and HEC Enterprises Ltd (“HEC”) have recently gone into administration […]
Read more »HEC Enterprises and its successor Deep Purple (Overseas) are essentially bankrupt. Details are pretty scarce as to how and why did this happen, but both companies have been administered since January 19 by a firm called ReSolve Partners Limited with the goal of offering their business assets for sale. HEC Enterprises and Deep Purple (Overseas) […]
Read more »Roger Glover pays tribute to the recently deceased Lemmy, iconic BBC DJ Ed Stewart, and David Bowie (who managed to turn dying from cancer onto a work of art): It’s said that bad news comes in threes. It did this last week. RIP Lemmy, Ed Stewart and now Bowie. Ashes to ashes. I met Lemmy […]
Read more »Classic Rock reached out to Nick Simper for a comment regarding his his conspicuous omission from the Hall of Fame inductees: The first I knew about the Hall Of Fame induction was when I read about it and fans were complaining that I wasn’t being inducted. Maybe I am being naive, but I always thought […]
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