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After the concert in Jesolo near Venice on December 11, all five members of Deep Purple have signed a MusicMan guitar which was donated to a charity lottery. The lottery is organized by the Hard Rock Cafe Venice together with the World Hunger Year foundation to support the Imagine There’s No Hunger campaign (Yoko Ono […]
Read more »It looks like the long dry spell for the South African fans is coming to an end. Three concerts were announced in that country for 2010: Johannesburg, Friday May 28, Coca-Cola Dome Durban, Sunday May 30, ICC Arena Cape Town, Tuesday June 1, Grand Arena at GrandWest Casino The shows are being billed as the […]
Read more »Deep Purple performance in Bologna on December 16th will be broadcast live by the Italian RAI Radio 2 starting at 8 p.m. GMT. You can launch the player at the Radio 2 website or from the main RAI page (select “Diretta Radio” from the top menu, then Radio2 icon in the player window). Thanks to […]
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Swiss banker Stefan Jemetta’s “private” Deep Purple gig on December 18, 2007 at Zürich Kongresshaus is due to be released on DVD, “with the approval of Thames Records, Bruce Payne.” A basic website to promote the release has been set up at www.deeppurple.ch and a promo clip was posted to Youtube (see inside).
According to this Swedish interview, Big Ian was writting with Tony Iommi and a plan to start a “charity band” project is in the works: Shouldn’t you do something with the guys in Black Sabbath? – Weird that you should mention that because I was in Armenia with Tony Iommi last week and stopped by […]
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While in London on the UK tour, Roger Glover has found the time to draw a sketch and donate it to the No Surrender Charitable Trust to be auctioned off as a part of their Art of Music ’09 program. The Ebay auction for the drawing has just started and will continute until December 7.
Joel McIver has been working since 2006 on an autobiography with Glenn Hughes, to be published by Foruli Publications. “We are very excited about this project, and working with Glenn Hughes is an absolute pleasure. The book is Glenn’s autobiography, written with Joel McIver (author of the bestselling book ‘The Truth About Metallica’). It will […]
Read more »Mickey Moody gave an interview to RockPages.gr. Not surprisingly, good three quarters of it revolves around his days in Whitesnake: Rockpages.gr: Did you feel a full member of Whitesnake or just a player in David Coverdale’s band? Micky Moody: Full member, indeed. I wasn’t getting the full money, but that’s another story! The only time […]
Read more »Birmingham show on November 13th received quite a favourable coverage in the local press. Debbie Bennett writes in the Express & Star: …On the third night of the band’s UK tour, 64-year-old barefoot frontman Ian Gillan belted out hits and rarities at the LG Arena last night and was loving every minute of it. The […]
Read more »In the anticipation of the Birmingham and London dates, Times Online has published a brilliantly eloquent piece on Deep Purple that surely will resonate in one a many hearts: The exact date has long been wiped from the memory’s hard drive, but I can say with absolute certainty that it was a February evening in […]
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