Several more =1 reviews from around the web. Ultimate Classic Rock: Musically, Deep Purple pushes an aggressiveness that rivals contemporaries in their field; Airey and McBride bring homage but never sink to nostalgia (check out their keyboard and guitar interplay on “A Bit on the Side” and “Sharp Shooter”). The 78-year-old Gillan can’t hit those […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2024-07-19
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Virgin Radio Italy interviewed Ian Gillan and Simon McBride. Go there to watch the chat. The audio is in original English with Italian subtitles. And by-the-by, that interviewer looks familiar 😉
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Posted in News by Nick on 2024-07-19
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Metal & Rock Zone reviews =1
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Posted in News by Nick on 2024-07-19
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Classic Rock reviews the freshly released =1: Just when you thought arguably Britain’s finest rock band had nothing more to give, along comes what may be their final rebirth. They’re taking it on the road of course. Can anything stop them? Hopefully not. Read more in Louder Sound. A review (most likely the same one) […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2024-07-19
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Ian Gillan was interviewed by a streaming site Qobuz on the occasion of =1 release, where he starts with here and now, and goes all the way back to the church choir boy experiences
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Posted in News by Nick on 2024-07-19
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=1 is upon us, and here’s the “official interview” from the band, posted today
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Posted in News by Nick on 2024-07-19
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Blabbermouth reviews the new album =1 in most glowing terms: When you have a legacy as indisputably colossal as DEEP PURPLE’s, making new music could easily be an afterthought. But tasked with producing new albums to rival the immortal likes of “Machine Head”, “Burn” and “Perfect Strangers”, the hard rock legends have done a solid […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2024-07-18
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Simon McBride gave an interview to the German site laut.de (in the midst of an interview marathon with 9 other engagements). Yep, reverse translation again. As such, take it with a grain of salt. It’s a lengthy read. Simon talks about his influences, joining the band, the songwriting process, lengths of the songs on =1, […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2024-07-17
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Ultimate Guitar spoke to Simon McBride, and offers not quite a full interview, but his answer to one of the questions: What is the most difficult Ritchie Blackmore part to play? Most of it is actually not too bad. There’s one little lick which annoyed me for a long, long time, it’s in ‘Lazy’. I […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2024-07-16
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Just a sort note. In case you haven’t ordered the new album yet and like to save money, SuperDeluxeEdition.com provides a handy shopping chart for the box set, 2LP, and CD+DVD digipak (that’s the last one, erroneously marked as 2LP again). Go to superdeluxeedition.com for all your price comparison needs. Caveat: most likely does not […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2024-07-15
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