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Roger Glover Interview
A new interview with Roger Glover is done by The Highway Star’s own editor Rasmus Heide. You can check out the interview here (in Danish).
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New Deep Purple book
There will be a new version of the Didi Zill’s Deep Purple book. Didi says that the Deep Purple book was the first, some mistakes were made (but not in the following 10 books he did with Schwarzkopf by now). The new version will have the texts in German and English. Currently they are thinking […]
Read more »Ian Gillan Speech
There will be an "Oscar" for promoters, agents etc in Hamburg, Germany February 16 and Ian Gillan will hold a speech. Thanks to web.de for the information.
Read more »Ian Gillan Interview
Jeb Wright at “Classic Rock Revisited” did an interview with Ian Gillan recently. Here is a few bits: I think the way Purple goes about their business – we just don’t want to be called a classic rock band. I don’t really mind it but I just want to make that point. We are going […]
Read more »Butterfly Ball DVD
“The Butterfly Ball” film will finally be released on DVD. It feature a performance from Royal Albert Hall 16th October 1975 by Roger Glover, Ian Gillan, Glenn Hughes, David Coverdale among others. The film has also animations. Here you can read more about Butterfly Ball. The DVD will be released March 14. You can preorder […]
Read more »Rapture Tour Edition CD
Edel will release a special Tour Edition of “Rapture Of The Deep“. The release date is set to February 2. The album will feature 4 additional live recordings as well as the 10 original tracks. You can preorder the CD in our shop. 1. Money Talks 2. Girls Like That 3. Wrong Man 4. Rapture […]
Read more »Steve Morse Letter
Steve Morse took some time off and wrote a letter the day after the the premier of Rapture Of The Deep World Tour. Here is a few bits: “Last night was our first official night of the “Rapture” tour. We played about 6 tunes from the album. While some of the endings were, uh, quite […]
Read more »Ian Gillan Video Interview
FaceCulture met Ian Gillan in Amsterdam. They discussed the history of Deep Purple, the new album "Rapture Of The Deep", church, religion, death, suicide, Bono, infinity, the metafysical world etc. Watch the video interview here. Thanks to FaceCulture for the information.
Read more »World Tour Premiere Setlist
This is the correct setlist from last night’s Deep Purple World Tour opening show at The Astoria in London: Pictures of Home Things I Never Said Wrong Man Ted the Mechanic Living Wreck Rapture of the Deep Back To Back Before Time Began Contact Lost Well-Dressed Guitar Lazy Keyboard Solo Perfect Strangers Junkyard Blues Sometimes […]
Read more »Ian Gillan on the Radio
Tony Iommi has announced that Ian Gillan will appear on his “Black Sunday” radio show on the UK digital station Planet Rock this coming Sunday, January 22nd. The show runs from 19:00 to 21:00 GMT. Thanks to DPAS for the information.
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