Classic Rock has online a new interview with Ian Gillan. It was done on the occasion of his guest appearance on the new UROCK album, and there are some bits and pieces we have heard before. There are also some that we haven’t. Is the idea that rock’n’roll is a young man’s game a myth […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-12-23
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Louder Sound profiles Purple’s original take on Hush for their The story behind the song series, with the input from Roger Glover, of all people. The story is reprinted from the Classic Rock magazine issue #297. Recorded at London’s Pye studio in the spring of 1968, during sessions for their debut album Shades Of Deep […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-10-19
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Louder Sound reprints a Classic Rock feature on Whitesnake that originally appeared in their 2006 special issue Classic Rock Present 1980s. “Oooh, hello, cheeky.” David Coverdale breaks off from our interview to greet a vision emerging from one of the many fabulous bedrooms found in what was then London’s most expensive hotel room – the […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-10-18
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Classic Rock has an extensive interview with Glenn Hughes. He talks about his career, from playing trombone in a school orchestra, to his mum saving him from joining ELO, to the most Ritchie Blackmore thing that Ritchie Blackmore did, to the latest solo album Chosen. Your first instrument was the trombone. This could have been […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-10-12
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Louder Sound previews interview with Glenn Hughes slated to appear in issue #344 of the Classic Rock magazine. In the interview, Hughes is asked to say who is the greatest guitarist he’s ever worked with – and his answer is surprising. “Oh god, that’s really difficult,” he tells Classic Rock. “I don’t want people to […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-08-16
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Classic Rock reviews the latest Made in Japan remix. Incredibly for the publication, it contains no information we haven’t known from elsewhere, and the whole review boils down to just one short paragraph: Incredibly, Wilson has revealed subtleties hidden for more than 50 years. And with the source sets from all three nights newly remixed […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-08-14
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Louder Sound teases us with a Glenn Hughes interview slated to appear in an upcoming issue of the Classic Rock magazine. Hughes’ latest solo album, Chosen, is set for release on September 5. It’s the first record to bear his name since 2016’s Resonate, but he tells Classic Rock that it may be the last. […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-07-13
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Don Airey was interviewed by the Classic Rock magazine about his latest solo album Pushed to the Edge. Where did you record it? There’s a studio outside Cambridge in a place called Harston. It’s run by the son of a very old friend of mine. It’s got a big old analogue desk and he’s a […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-06-03
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Louder Sound has a feature on Gary Moore. Of interest in our quarters are several episodes when his path crossed with members of the Purple family, particularly his collaborations with Glenn Hughes. It was also in 1979 that Moore met former Deep Purple singer/bassist Glenn Hughes. Lizzy were in Los Angeles, where Hughes now lived, […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-05-21
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Louder Sound reprints online a Classic Rock interview with the members of Black Country Communion, conducted on the occasion of their second album release. The interview was originally published in the Classic Rock magazine issue #160, dated June 2011. What began as a brief side-project for Glenn Hughes, Joe Bonamassa, Jason Bonham and Derek Sherinian […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2025-05-04
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