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David Coverdale has appeared on BBC Breakfast show yesterday, May 15, to promote Whitesnake’s UK tour (which starts in Belfast today): Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info and to Ania Rock for uploading the video.
Read more »Steve Morse spoke to Something Else! Reviews about the new album and the late Jon Lord: NICK DERISO: Over the years, you became very close with (late co-founding keyboardist) Jon Lord. It must have meant a lot to you to have been a part of his final album, the very long-awaited studio version of Concerto […]
Read more »A longish (and thus interesting) interview with Ian Paice was done by Italian Radio Lombardia’s show Linea Rock some time in April and is now available for viewing: Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen for the info.
Read more »Frontiers Records has announced digital release of the first single from the new Blackmore’s Night album Dancer And The Moon. The track is called The Moon Is Shining (Somewhere Over the Sea): [It is] based on an old folk Czech melody which Candice and I thought were very melodic and haunting. We adapted and arranged […]
Read more »The 1970 BBC radio session of Deep Purple performing Grabsplatter and Black Night has been rebroadcasted on BBC Radio 6 Music Live Hour in the wee hours of Sunday, May 12. The show will available for listening online for a week now. Should you be inclined to skip PJ Harvey and T.Rex directly to Purple, […]
Read more »The promotional video for Vincent Price was shot at the Berlin Dungeon. Check out pictures of the shoot in Berliner Morgenpost and on Facebook. Hmm, I wonder if they’ve run into Blackmore there… Thanks to Peter and Yvonne Osthausen for the info.
Read more »This list is being continuously updated. Progress of the album in charts around the world is neatly summarized here. The first week of Now what?! out in the wild is over and the first official chart positions accounting for both online and offline sales are in. Germany: #1 first week, #5 second, #12 third, #22 […]
Read more »Ian Gillan and Ian Paice are scheduled to be the studio interview guests on Later… With Jools Holland next week. The show goes out live on Tuesday, May 14th on BBC2, is repeated in a slightly longer version the Friday after, and also available to view online on the BBC iPlayer. Thanks to BraveWords for […]
Read more »David Coverdale gave an interview to the Metal Express Radio. He spoke about his new live releases, the upcoming British tour, his humble beginnings in Redcar, his family, and Jon Lord: MER: Jon Lord has been a really big loss to the music world. DC: The world is a lot worse off for his loss. […]
Read more »NOW What?! has seized the #1 spot in Germany, Deep Purple’s unofficial second home. This is confirmed by Media Control, who says this is the seventh time Deep Purple hit the number one spot in Germany. (Seventh Heaven?) In the UK, NOW What?! has reached #1 in the Rock & Metal Albums Top 40 dated […]
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