Wendy Dio was a guest on The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan podcast (and Billy is a huge fan of Deep Purple, Rainbow, and Dio himself). Here is their long and interesting conversation. In this powerful and emotional conversation, Wendy Dio joins Billy Corgan to share the brilliance of her late husband, Ronnie James Dio […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-11-13
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Blackmore’s Night show in Alexandria, Virginia, on November 9, 2025, morphed into an impromptu “request hour” shortly after it started.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-11-11
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An online magazine called eonmusic has an interview with Steve Morse. It was done, like many others these days, on the occasion of Steve’s new solo album Triangulation, but unlike those, it does not shy away from his 28 years with Deep Purple. I wanted to touch on a little bit of your Deep Purple […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-11-04
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Peter Goalby tells the story of how he was the singer in Rainbow. For all of about five minutes.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-11-03
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Candice Night talks to INDIEPOWER_TV from the (now familiar) her living room about meeting Ritchie Blackmore, becoming a lyric writer for Rainbow, importance of the creative freedom, having a cancer surgery while on tour with Rainbow, and many other things. Some of these we have already heard, others are new.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-11-02
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Ritchie Blackmore gave one of his rare interviews to the Rock of Nations podcast. The excerpt of the conversation has been published, with the full interview said to be “out soon”. Hint: you may want to turn down the volume for the extremely loud intro.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-11-02
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An Austrian label, appropriately called Reissued Sounds, have released three Glenn Hughes’ albums on a variety of coloured vinyl. Addiction and Feel have already seen a vinyl treatment before, albeit not of the splatteringly garish variety, while Live in Australia appears in this format for the first time. Interested parties can find more information and […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-11-02
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Glenn Hughes recently made an appearance on the Mick Wall’s podcast (season 5, episode 9). It’s over an hour long, with lots and lots of dirt being turned over and war stories told, good half of it Purple-related one way or the other. We highly recommend finding the time to listen to the whole thing […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-10-31
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Ronnie Romero was a guest on The Rock ‘n’ Blues Experience podcast on the occasion of his second solo album Backbone.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-10-31
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Music Radar has an interview with Steve Morse, where he talks about various modifications he made to his guitars over the years. Like the rather irreverent but practical grinder mod he has done in 2000 after breaking his wrist right before performing with Deep Purple at the Montreux Jazz Festival. But speaking to MusicRadar earlier […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2025-10-29
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