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Michael Lee Jackson who worked with Ian Gillan on his solo album, Gillan’s Inn, as well toured with Ian Gillan last year, has done a solo album. It’s called “In A Heartbeat” (2006). Ian sings back up on a few tracks, and lead on “Have Love, Will Travel”. You can find the album in our […]
Read more »Win a copy of Ian Gillan’s new book “Smoke This”. Check out our Gillan’s Inn Special.
Read more »There is a TV documentary the 4th of January 2007 about the 70’s in Montreux with the backround of “Smoke on the Water”. It will be broadcast on the German TV channel 3Sat. Thanks to Volker Sarnes for the information.
Read more »Santa Claus has been visiting and he’s brought presents! First off, we now have a shiny new Fan Forum, all ready for you to play around in. There’s a couple of groundrules you need to read first, and then you are off and running. Go check it out.
Read more »Roger Glover will start to record his next solo album in February. Roger also took some time off and wrote a X-mas letter to his fans. Here is a cut: We have traveled a year’s worth of gigs to get here (Bangalore, India – Ed.) and what a diverse and wonderful twelve months. It seems […]
Read more »KNAC.com has a rather lengthy interview with Ian Gillan about Gillan’s Inn album and tour and about DP. Nothing really groundbreaking and a usual sprinkle of Gillan’s exaggerations (somebody please tell him that the average age at Purple concerts is far from 18, even outside of America). But here it is anyway. Thanks to Mike […]
Read more »Indian newspaper The Economic Times has a rather interesting (for a mainstream publication) article about pitfalls of Deep Purple being labelled as a “classic rock” band: And yet, the classic tag is not something Ian Gillan, the band’s frontman for the largest part of its existence, is comfortable with. “We’ve been an underground band since […]
Read more »Winter Carols has just entered the radio charts at number 4 for the month of November 2006 for Public Radio Stations and College Stations throughout the USA. New Age Reporter Top 100 New Age/Ambient/World Radio/Internet Airwaves Chart. Thanks to Mike Garrett and Blackmore Productions for the info.
Read more »Bangalore Times has an amusing report about our boys stay in India, including name check on an old time AMDP regular Mahesh Srinivas. Here’s a few excerpts: Mahesh is part of a team that’s working to ensure the band doesn’t forget their two-day stay here. The hotel where they will be staying is pulling out […]
Read more »Ian Gillan’s tour of Australia has been cancelled. On his website Gillan published this message from himself and his management: We regret to announce that the Australian Ian Gillan tour dates have been cancelled. The main reason for this cancellation is the bullet which remains in Rodney Appleby’s neck from his recent shooting by a […]
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