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Here we go again
On May 23 Whitesnake show in Manchester Bernie Marsden joined the “new new” band on stage for performances of Fool for Your Loving and Here I Go Again: Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info and to mick parry for the video.
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Rock’n’roll at 1 o’clock in the afternoon
Anastasia Kuvaldina and Andrey Gusenkov sat down to talk with both Ians when the band was in Moscow earlier this month. The interview was done for the Russian radio station Rock FM, and now they have kindly offered us full transcript for publication. Deep Purple 2013 05 02 Interview Rushing into the interview with the […]
Read more »What do you think of Now what?!
The new album has been out for a while now, the dust seems to be settling down, and it’s time for another poll here at The Highway Star. We tried to put together a variety of the most often expressed opinions of the album, and you can always post your opinion in free form in […]
Read more »Forever Deep
Italian tribute band Forever Deep has put out an album of original material with Ian Paice and Don Airey guesting on several tracks: The Star of my Secret Arts The Wish (feat. Paice & Airey) Never My Loneliness (feat. Airey) Without your Love (feat. Paice) Do I Belong Marosh (feat. Paice) Purple Fury The album […]
Read more »Behind the music documentary
Behind the music documentary which was recently shown on VH1 in the US has been posted on Youtube. Act fast before Powers That Be(tm) take it down. All in all, I must say it’s rather well done, considering the enormity of the task of covering the 45-year history of the band in 45 minutes. Blackmore, […]
Read more »Paicey has his own beer
Castle Rock Brewery from Nottingham has a series of one-off seasonal beers dubbed Nottinghamian Celebration Ale named after famous people born in town and beyond. This spring offering on tap: Ian Paice Celebration Ale. The beer is described as a “dark bitter with a slight ‘smoke on the water’ character”. We’re still waiting for our […]
Read more »Setlist poll — Now what?! edition
Members of the band alluded in the interviews that a new setlist will be rehearsed before touring starts in earnest with more songs from Now what?! incorporated into it. Ofcourse, we all want the whole album played live. But let’s be realistic optimistic and, say, they will pick 6 songs. Now, which ones? There’s no […]
Read more »Down the rabbit holes never visited
It’s not that often that you read a reveiew of an album (any album) that is so eloquent that it makes you wipe that grin off your face, put everything aside and listen to the said album again. Cory Frye’s review of Now what?! in Albany Democrat-Herald is just like that: Which brings us to […]
Read more »First day, first chart success
Now what?! has been released in a number of countries today, April 26, and is charting very well on Amazon.de. At the time of this writing (23:43 CEST) the limited edition is at #2 in overall album chart (with only a Bravo magazine compilation sneaking ahead) and #1 in ‘Hard Rock’, ‘Rock’, and ‘Limited Edition’ […]
Read more »Purple aiming for #1 – with your help
Made In Japan is currently #2 in a new Greatest Live Albums Of All Time poll at British music magazine NME. Why don’t we all pull together to make it #1 – and bump Muse off that spot? Worth a try while we wait for the new one… Cast your vote now.
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