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Glenn Hughes will do two solo tours of the UK in the upcoming months. In November he will appear on a 5-date stint tied up to the paperback release of his autobiography (due on November 1 in North America and November 11 in the UK). These shows are billed as acoustical and including “excerpts from […]
Read more »Roger Glover did an interview with the Swedish based Metal Shrine blog. He spoke about If Life Was Easy, divorce, fatherhood, Barbie Benton, Phil Collins, and touring with orchestras, among other things. During all these years, were any of these songs stuff that you brought to Deep Purple or were they just made for a […]
Read more »Black Country Communion has launched an official YouTube channel. It is promised to be updated on a weekly basis. The latest track posted is the Song of Yesterday (audio only) off the upcoming DVD Live Over Europe. You can also download MP3 of the track from their website. Thanks to Guillermo Gonzalez for the info.
Read more »Don Airey will do a couple more radio appearances to promote his new solo album All Out. On Wednesday, September 21st, he will appear on BBC Radio Cambridge in the Sue Marchant evening entertainment show. The show runs between 7 and 9 pm, with Don scheduled to appear between 8:00 and 8:30 pm. The show […]
Read more »Classic Rock reports that a new Whitesnake box set is in the works, scheduled to be released (presumably, in the UK) on November 7. Titled Box O’Snakes: The Sunburst Years 1978-1982, this has every studio and live album from the period, two BBC concerts, a limited edition 7” EP, a DVD, and a 90-page book […]
Read more »Another interview with Roger Glover — this time with HeadBanger.ru. Turns out a lot can be covered in 15 minutes — broken hearts, butterfly balls, parenting, singing talents, and meetings with presidents. Cue eloquent and insightful. By the way, have you played this album to your Deep Purple bandmates? No. Why not? When I get […]
Read more »This Thursday September 15th, Don Airey will be appearing on the South Wales radio station GTFM on the Rockshow. He’ll be live in conversation with presenter Andy Fox, answering questions about Deep Purple, his new album All Out and his vast 35+ years career playing in Rainbow, Whitesnake, Ozzy Osbourne’s Band, Gary Moore, MSG, Black […]
Read more »Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles has a new interview with Roger Glover conducted by Martin Popoff. It covers a lot of ground, digging deep into the roots, surfacing for some Purple air, and soaring up to his new solo album. Two words come to mind when reading Roger’s interviews: eloquent and insightful. Wishing to steer […]
Read more »Thomson Music has released a second Purple-related app for iPad: The Sunbury Rock Festival was an annual Australian rock music festival held on a 620-acre private farm between Sunbury and Diggers Rest, Victoria, which was staged on the Australia Day (26 January) long weekend from 1972 to 1975. It attracted up to 45,000 patrons and […]
Read more »Roger Glover explains on his website the convoluted origins of If Life Was Easy artwork. He concludes with an invitation to all fans to take part in a contest: If […] you would like to win a specially signed copy of If Life Was Easy (don’t faint), here is a little competition… Visualize text fragments […]
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