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WhoCares update

WhoCares charity single will get a North American release on June 27th via Eagle Rock. This is the release date for a physical CD. European CD release date is now set for May 24th (although Amazon.co.uk lists it as May 9th). Download release for both markets is still set for May 6th. Confused? Me too. […]

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Steve Morse on the orchestral tour

Deep Purple have finally broken silence about the upcoming tour with an orchestra when Steve Morse spoke to Examiner about it: So Deep Purple is touring with a symphony orchestra? Yeah. It’s not exactly like the symphonic tour that we did where we’re actually playing symphonic music that Don [Airey, Deep Purple keyboardist] had written […]

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Gillan about WhoCares

In anticipation of the May 6 release of the WhoCares single, Ian Gillan spoke to Armenia’s Mediamax: – You wrote the song “Out of My Mind” right after visiting Armenia in October 2009. Can you please tell – how it happen? Who was “responsible” for what when writing this song? – Well, normally…people like us […]

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WhoCares in Amazon charts

The still-yet-to-be-released WhoCares single has already entered the Amazon.co.uk charts. It’s been at #2 position in singles for two days now and yesterday was even spotted at reaching #1. You all now have a chance to contribute to it’s continuing success. It’s great music by outstanding musicians. And it’s all for a good cause. Thanks […]

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Glenn Hughes on That Metal Show

Glenn Hughes will be co-hosting with Duff McKagan That Metal Show on a US cable/satellite channel VH1. The episode will air this Saturday, April 16, at 11 PM EDT/PDT and will be repeated in the following days. Check your local listings for further details. Thanks to Tracy Heyder for the info.

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Gillan video channel

Ian Gillan’s official video channel has opened up on YouTube. The channel will post videos spanning his solo career as well as those with Deep Purple.

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Jon Lord speaks on his Blues Project

The Jon Lord Blues Project played on April 7 at the Rother Bluestage festival in Germany. The band also includes Miller Anderson on guitar and vocals, Maggie Bell on vocals, Colin Hodgkinson on bass, and Pete York on drums. Watch Jon talk about the project:

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UK tour goes on sale

Tickets for the short Deep Purple tour of UK are going on sale this week. Nov 26 — Glasgow Nov 27 — Birmingham Nov 29 — Manchenster Nov 30 — London Presale for Glasgow starts April 14, register at TicketSoup.com. Presale for the other three shows starts April 13, but we do not have any […]

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Forevermore chart positions

Whitesnake’s Forevermore came out in March and made into Top 50 charts in several countries. The first-week chart positions were as follows: Sweden: #6 Finland: #11 Czech Republic: #15 Germany: #16 Switzerland: #17 Austria: #27 Italy: #41 Netherlands #42 Poland: #42 USA: #49 The album sold around 12,000 copies in the US in the first […]

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Born Again again

Born Again will be re-released in the UK via Universal/Sanctuary as a 2CD Deluxe Edition on May 30. Track listing: Disc 1: Trashed Stonehenge Disturbing the Priest The Dark Zero the Hero Digital Bitch Born Again Hot Line Keep it Warm Disc 2: The Fallen (previously unreleased album session outtake) Stonehenge (extended version) Hot Line […]

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