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Total mayhem at Southbank
This from a Purple performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London in May 1970 that was recorded for a British TV programme Southbank Summer. This surfaced only a couple of years ago.
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Burn 2007
For all you Mk3 aficionados, here’s an audience shot of Glenn’s recent performance of Burn at the B.B.King’s in New York. The guitar work is positively different, so those of you who are sensitive to deviations from the classics, might want to abstain from this one:
Read more »Rainbow YouTube cabaret
Doogie White in all his glory: grand finale of their last tour of Japan. Tokyo, November 23, 1995: an almost a cappella encore of “Show Me The Way” and “Love Hurts”:
Read more »The second (Norwegian) coming of the Lord
Whenever Jon Lord and Hell are mentioned in the same sentence, you know there’s good stuff coming. The Hell in question is of course the tiny village by that very name just outside Trondheim, Norway. Counting only a handful of houses, it still has its own railway station. For many years it has also had […]
Read more »Jon Lord in Monster magazine
The day before Jon Lord’s show at the Nidaros cathedral in Trondheim Norway, he and singer Jørn Lande gave an interview to Norwegian Monster magazine. They sat together in the hotel bar, where dark wooded paneling and squeaky floor boards offered an ancient feel. Please read the full interview in Monster magazine, this is just […]
Read more »Setlist poll: jury’s in
The setlist poll is closed and here are the results: Highway Star (58%, 1,040 Votes) Perfect Strangers (56%, 1,006 Votes) Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming (48%, 874 Votes) Smoke On The Water (44%, 796 Votes) The Battle Rages On (42%, 763 Votes) Rapture Of The Deep (41%, 746 Votes) Knocking At Your Back Door (41%, […]
Read more »Old Grey Whistle Test 1987
This is an episode of the Old Grey Whistle Test from 1987. The show includes TV crew following UK fans of a trip to Paris, brief interviews with Roger and Ritchie and some overdubbed concert footage (with Ritchie tasting a bit of his own poison):
Read more »Speed King promo video
An excellent quality (given the time) promo video for the Speed King. It appears that it is lipsync’ed to the single edit of the track (minus keyboard intro):
Read more »Blast from the future
The classic Purple version of Hush is featured in the soundtrack for a 2006 British movie “Children of Men“. It is encouraging that in the moviemakers’ opinion the band will still be relevant in the dystopian society of 2027. The song can be heard on the car radio towards the beginning of the film as […]
Read more »They got music in their solar system
Undoubtedly sparked by a little scientific debate in our news comments, two scientist decided to find out for sure exactly how Smoke on the Water sounds on Mars. Their verdict? Forget trying to listen on Mars, though. The Martian atmosphere is 95 per cent carbon dioxide, a chilly 220 Kelvin and very wispy indeed, which […]
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