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In the latest installment of Road Life, Roger Glover shares with us events which happened to him during just one day on the road: Anyway, we recently flew in for a gig at a spa resort in the countryside where a rock festival is annually held. The three-hour journey by van from Gdansk airport went […]
Read more »The nominations are in for the 2011 Classic Rock Magazine Awards. The awards are chosen both by the magazine team and by polling the readers. There are several Purple related entries in the running. The categories you can vote in (and relevant entries) are: Best New Band Album Of The Year — BCC2 Reissue Of […]
Read more »As we’ve reported previously, this past Friday, July 15, Jon Lord was awarded a honorary Doctor of Music degree by his home town’s University of Leicester. Local press covers the event; Leicester Mercury writes: Archbishop Desmond Tutu was in Leicester on Friday. You may have heard about it, seeing as news of his honorary degree […]
Read more »Houston Press has a rather favourable review of the recently released Phoenix Rising: Phoenix Rising details the “untold story” of DP Mk IV, first with Deep Purple Rises Over Japan. The 30-minute concert film, originally shot for movie theaters but not released until 1985 – this was before MTV and YouTube, kiddies – has the […]
Read more »Euronews has a news report on the closing of the 45th Montreux Jazz Festival featuring our heroes. Watch it inside.
Read more »Apparently Glenn Hughes has got himself his own show on Planet Rock. It airs on Sundays between 6 and 7pm. I would like to thank Planet Rock for giving me the opportunity to share with listeners of my show the songs that have shaped my life. Every song is chosen by me, and there will […]
Read more »The has been a bit of confusion as to the exact release dates of the new Roger Glover’s solo album If Life Was Easy in different countries. Here’s a complete breakdown: Germany and Austria: released on July 8th Russia: July 11 France: July 18 (although Amazon.fr is already shipping it) Italy: July 26 Spain and […]
Read more »Jeb Wright of Classic Rock Revisited has conducted an interview with Steve Morse. They spoke about his work in and out of Deep Purple: Jeb: Deep Purple is your main band but I wonder if you are still allowed to create freely for your other projects as a member of the group? Steve: We have […]
Read more »Blackmore’s Night will appear on the German TV show Fersehengarten this Sunday, July 17. They will perform the Journeyman off their Autumn Sky album.
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