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PiƱa coladas and gettin’ caught in the rain

Everett Post (which hails from Washington state) has a short piece based around an interview with Ian Paice on the occasion of the band visiting across the continent state of Florida. About the Rock Legends Cruise that departed on February 14: I’m not trying to get any pre-formed ideas about it. I’m sure it’ll be […]

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Waving the middle finger to Father Time

BraveWords has an illustrated review of the band’s first gig of 2022: If you are one of those who believe that there’s a certain age in which we are too old for rock n’ roll, any of the current members of Deep Purple would politely ask you to hold their beers. Despite being Steve Morse […]

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They smile to themselves

An embryonic version of Fools, with ad-lib lyrics

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Caught in the act

The band have played their first live show in nearly 2 years yesterday, February 10, 2022, at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida. Let’s see how the gentlemen have weathered the storm.

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The Deep Purple Rockshow

Radio BOB! in Germany has a monthly show hosted by our own Ian Paice and Don Airey. The Deep Purple Rockshow is on the air every first Saturday of the month from 18:00 to 19:00. We are being told that the radio announcement also mentioned that from time to time they might be joined by […]

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Live from Daisyland

The Dead Daisies released a new digital single — live version of Rise Up, which originally appeared on their 2018 album Burn It Down, before Glenn joined the band.

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From Hush to Gimme Some Lovin’

Goldmine magazine has a six-page feature on Turning to Crime in their February/March 2022 issue. It is written by Dave Thompson and based around an interview with Ian Paice. Vintage Rock magazine has has a 2-page article on the Green Bullfrog project in their February/March 2022 issue. And last, but not least, Classic Rock has […]

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Bring your flight jackets

Ian Gillan was interviewed for the Palm Beach Post in anticipation of resuming the touring activities in Florida later this month. If there is one thing that is true about Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan, it’s that not everything he says is true. ā€œSomebody once asked me, ā€˜Are you a truthful person?’ I said yes […]

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Celebrator of all colours, shapes, and sizes

David Coverdale was recently interviewed by the Radio Forrest podcast. New projects, reissues, Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame, Coverdale/Page, and a few other things were discussed.

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It’s Burrn!

25th anniversary of Whitesnake’s Restless Heart album is the cover story of issue #2022-02 of the Japanese Burrn! magazine. This issue also includes an interview with Roger Glover about the Deep Purple’s first album of covers.

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