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If you thought the au naturel cover of Child in Time was fun, check out this one. As one of the youtubers has put it Wanted to see them in Uppsala summer of 1258, but I couldn’t find a spot to moor my longboat. Damn !
Read more »Roger Glover shows his artsy side in this early 80s vintage TV interview.
Read more »Ian Gillan answers to Loudwire‘s Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction. This was published 3 years ago, but somehow slipped under our radar all that time. Big Ian not as much as providing rebuttals, as goes on a tangent telling anecdotes from his career.
Read more »Speaking of Planet Rock, they also have a collection of semi-random factoids titled 42 facts about Deep Purple’s album covers — that’s two for each studio album. As we all know, 42 is also the answer to the ultimate questions of life, the universe, and everything. To top it off, truly yours website gets a […]
Read more »John Coletta’s granddaughter reacts to Smoke on the Water.
Read more »And just to brighten your day, here is a guitar shredding cover of Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming by Damian Salazar.
Read more »This is all highly theoretical now, but nevertheless… Now that the new album has been out for a month, everybody had a chance to listen to it and make up their minds, but impressions are still fresh. What tracks from Whoosh would you like to hear live when the band resumes touring? You can choose […]
Read more »This is from our trainspotting department. September 6 stage of Tour de France was won by a gentleman whose jersey was adorned by a logo that reads WHOOSH. Turns out the winner rides for Team Emirates which is sponsored this season by eponymous piece of spyware fitness app. No relation to the recent Deep Purple […]
Read more »An objet d’art called Musicians’ Bench was spotted in Russian city of Pskov. Sharp eyes quickly recognized that music notation on the bench is not random, but represents the opening chords of nothing else but Smoke on the Water. The bench is installed in a recently reconstructed Square of the Arts and is the work […]
Read more »Somebody went into all the trouble of artificially colourizing the complete Copenhagen 1972 video and the result is now available on youtube.
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Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing