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All Those Years Ago

Rufus Stone, publisher of the Deep Purple at the California Jam, has announced plans to produce a photo book commemorating Jon Lord: At Rufus Stone limited Editions we always wanted to produce a large format, mostly photographic book of Jon Lords incredible and respected career in the music industry. Jon’s illness put this plan on […]

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Tommy Bolin’s Whirlwind

The Tommy Bolin Archives are releasing a 2CD set of previously unreleased material called Whirlwind. The set includes demos and outtakes from his solo album Teaser, his jazz-rock band Energy and material he was working on for his next album before his death in 1976. Track list Disc 1 Cucumber Jam Heartlight Hoka-Hay! Don’t Worry […]

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Design the new ?! single artwork

Edel/earMUSIC has announced that the third single from Now what?! will be Above and Beyond. They are holding a competition for the graphic design of the new single: earMUSIC and Deep Purple will pick one of your works, as an inspiration for the final cover for the new single, or possibly as “the” cover. Details […]

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JLT giveaway

Gustavo Solinas of the Joe Lynn Turner fan club is running a contest with 4 CDs as prizes: The Jan Holberg Project At your service (autographed by Jan Holberg) Avantasia The mystery of time (special edition with two bonus tracks) Pushking The world as we love it — featuring JLT, Glenn Hughes, Graham Bonnet, Paul […]

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Dancer and the Moon video

Blackmore’s Night have released a second promo video for the recent album’s Dancer and the Moon title track (watch inside).

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Dancer and the Moon chart positions

The new Blackmore’s Night album Dancer and the Moon has entered the charts in several countries: Germany: #13 Sweden: #22 Norway: #24 Czech Republic: #29 Hungary: #30 Finland: #31 Austria: #39 Switzerland: #40 UK: #89 Top 100 / #16 Top 50 Indie chart Netherlands: #102 US: #189 on Billboard 200 / #40 Indie chart / […]

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Black Masquerade

The much bootlegged Rainbow show from Philipshalle Düsseldorf on October 9, 1995, is now going to be released officially through Edel in Europe on August 23 and Eagle Rock in North America on August 27, on CD, DVD and digital download. That was the only performance of the last incarnation of Rainbow to be recorded […]

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Bach as metal

Steve Morse did this interview during the recent visit to Georgia. He talks about his career, playing with G3, Above and Beyond, why the Y2D has a 5-position switch, Bach as metal, and many other things: Bonus points to everybody who can figure out what Paicey is saying in the background 😉 Thanks to Yvonne […]

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The coolness of first take

Guitar World magazine has an interview with Steve Morse: GUITAR WORLD: Now What?! is Deep Purple’s first studio effort in eight years. Why did you decide to make the album now? Actually, I was one of the guys asking the same thing! My vision was every tour we’d do another song and just release it […]

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Clanking chains and creaking doors

Ian Gillan recently gave an interview to QMI Agency that was published in Toronto Sun: As the ideas come from the jam sessions every day… you get them some kind of working generic title and this one sounded like the soundtrack to a horror movie so we called it Vincent Price. And when I got […]

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