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Fast cars and broken jaws
Bob Daisley tells quite a few amusing anecdotes from his days in Rainbow. (watch inside)
Read more »Archive for the 'Blog' Category
12 carat gold
Mike Eriksson has a story in his blog of how back in the day Deep Purple have ended up with one half of a gold record.
Read more »Tensions, tantrums and traumas
The Classic Rock magazine is devoting its weekly Thursday Death Match feature to pitting Deep Purple against, well, Deep Purple. That is Mark 2 against Mark 3. And while there’s nothing new, it’s an entertaining read and you get to vote at the end after surrendering another bit of your privacy. Geoff Barton puts forward […]
Read more »The Purple Album: sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t
Ever since Whitesnake’s The Purple Album came out a few days ago, it has been the talk of the town in Purple quarters of the ‘net. Love it or hate it, DC managed to get lots of attention to this release. One of our readers shares his thoughts. Well, I have listened to The Purple […]
Read more »Rival Sons to support Purple
California band Rival Sons will be supporting Deep Purple on all dates of the European tour this Fall. In my opinion, this is a rather welcome addition to the bill. I’ve seen Rival Sons at a small club in my home town last year and the band’s music has a definitive vintage hard rock vibe […]
Read more »With the benefit of hindsight
Mike Eriksson (of the Deep Purple Forever Swedish fan club fame) has published on his blog a lengthy interview with Glenn Hughes. The interview was conducted in 1996 by himself and Coast To Coast editor Lennart Hedenström, and covers many things — some educational, some inspirational, some boisterous, and some — with the benefit of […]
Read more »Pyrotechnical virtuosity and naïve songwriting
Roger Glover and Ian Paice explaining how they see the reasons behind the band’s success. (watch inside)
Read more »New take on Soldier of Fortune
Whitesnake’s record label has released another promo video for their upcoming Purple Album. Soldier of Fortune manages to avoid the hair metal clichés and stay closer to the original. (watch inside)
Read more »The HoF saga, episode #65,535
The Rolling Stone magazine has conducted a reader’s poll about artists that should be inducted into the infamous Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame in 2016. And perhaps surprisingly for them, but not so much for the rest of the world, Deep Purple took the top spot. The magazine explains away: You can’t blame the Rock and […]
Read more »Master Bernie
Bernie Marsden has been awarded a honorary Master of Arts degree by his home town University of Buckingham. The presentation speech delivered by Professor John Clarke lists Bernie’s numerous achievements, from scoring a #1 US hit with Here I Go Again, to his recent charity work. We all at The Highway Star would like to […]
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