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Newspaper The Courier has another piece of Scottish Purple history: a picture of the band taken backstage at the Caird Hall in Dundee on October 15, 1970. It is published as a part of their 1970s illustrated nostalgia trip. Check it out in The Courier. In other trainspotting news, a cassette tape with handwritten label […]
Read more »The newly remixed and reissued Made in Japan managed to re-enter the charts. It has reached to the respectable #5 on the Top 100 Album chart in the Purple heartland of Germany (beating the new album of teens’ darling Laufey, which only managed #11 on its debut the week after). It dropped to #82 the […]
Read more »The Rapture of the Deep remix is out, and first reviews started to appear. Here’s one from the Loud Hailer: On the 20th anniversary of the original album release, they’ve decided to present us with a remixed/remastered version of Rapture of the Deep. The original album was composed and recorded during a particularly uncertain time […]
Read more »Guitar World has an interview with the Swedish session man Tommy Denander, who has more than 3,500 albums to his credit — from Michael Jackson to Jeff Beck, to Alice Cooper. He is also one of the go-to session musicians for Bob Ezrin, so you might guess where this is going (and we’ve covered the […]
Read more »A recording of a Deep Purple performance in Lyon, France, on March 16, 1973 has been posted to YouTube. It is purported to be from an FM radio broadcast, but don’t get your hopes too too high. It sounds more like an audience recording, albeit a good one for the time.
Read more »[Updated Aug 25 w/part 13] In anticipation of the upcoming reissue, powers-that-be are teaspoon feeding us what Roger Glover and Ian Paice have to say about Made in Japan. This post will be updated if and when further chunks are released, which will bump it in the News in brief column on the left.
Read more »The Guardian has a piece on the casino burning down and associated shenanigans as a part of their How we made series. With input from Roger Glover and Ian Paice. RG: There’s a great photograph of singer Ian Gillan with his notebook open and the first two verses written. I’m sat opposite him listening to […]
Read more »Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins tells a heartwarming story of his first encounter with Made in Japan
Read more »CNN has a 100-second report on Deep Purple, during which they manage to cover all the major things that are happening to the band this summer — the Stranger Things tie-in, Made in Japan and Rapture of the Deep reissues, mention that the band is still going strong and working on new music, and interview […]
Read more »It’s an interesting world we live in, wherein The Telegraph has better coverage of a Made in Japan reissue than both the (once) venerable Classic Rock and MOJO magazines, complete with an excellent interview with the drummer and historic photographs (one of them even from Budokan 1972). Perhaps inevitably, the intermittently fractious Purple were themselves […]
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