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Bologna 1971
An audience recording of Deep Purple gig in Bologna, Italy, on May 27, 1971, has surfaced on YouTube. The sound quality is, ahem, fair, but one can not ask too too much from that era.
Read more »From Changshu to Austin
Couple of new entries to our trainspotting project. A restaurant called Deep Purple has opened last year in Chiangshu, China. It specializes in western (as in European / North American / Australian) food. The band gets a nod in their self description: The name Deep Purple traces its roots back from the mysterious and dreamy […]
Read more »Something old, something new
The documentary DVD that was included in the 4CD+DVD box of the Made in Japan reissue this spring, will be released separately as a standalone DVD by Universal on December 12 (at least in continental Europe). In other news, Deep Purple (Overseas) and Universal are remixing Made in Europe for a box set release some […]
Read more »Colin Hart interview revisited
The official YouTube channel has posted an expanded version of the video interview with Colin Hart. Colin started working for the band as a roadie back in 1971, then became tour manager for Elf, Rainbow, and post-reunion Deep Purple. It was probably recorded shortly after his retirement from the band circa 2001. Many of what […]
Read more »Tabloid science
Apparently publisher of British tabloids Trinity Mirror has nothing better to do than pretend doing scientific work. Their “data unit” conducted a study of lyrics to over 6,000 songs by British and Irish bands: Sentiment analysis involves picking out emotive words or phrases in a given text and placing them in context with the words […]
Read more »Way into the future
As the band is preparing to start their Latin American tour, bookings are already being finalized 13 months into the future. It has been announced that London O2 show on December 3, 2015, will be going on sale this Friday, October 31, 2014. Read what you want from the promoter’s blurb, but so far we […]
Read more »Uncommon Man
The record company has posted Uncommon Man from Celebrating Jon Lord, which sold so well, that it hit #1 in a number of European countries. Thanks to Classic Rock for the info.
Read more »Celebrating Jon Lord hits #1
The newly released dvd of the Celebrating Jon Lord concert at the Albert Hall, London from April 2014 has hit the #1 slot on the dvd music charts in its first week of release in the UK, Germany, Sweden and Austria. Recorded on 4th April the dvd and blu-ray feature the two halves of the […]
Read more »European Tour late 2015 expanding
According to some online ticket agencies it now looks like it’s the turn of Italy to spend this year for enjoyment next year. Tour dates posted on therockblog.net show the following dates: 30/10/2015, Palafabris di Padova 31/10/2015, Mediolanum Forum di Assago (Milano) 05/11/2015, Mandela Forum di Firenze 06/11/2015, Palalottomatica di Roma these dates, along with […]
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