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Louder Sound reprints a 2009 Metal Hammer feature on the hairspray era of Whitesnake, based around an interview with David Coverdale. For the first few years of the 1980s, David Coverdale was an incredibly busy man. After the demise of Deep Purple, the band he’d sung with since 1974 and that had made him a […]
Read more »Retropop magazine reports that Glenn Hughes will be among the guest musicians on the upcoming Robbie Williams (of Take That fame) album. Glenn Hughes from Deep Purple played on something. Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath played on something. I know – Black Sabbath to Deep Purple. The yet unnamed album is due some time in […]
Read more »Several press clipping that are of a too marginal interest to post them individually. Australian Guitar has a short feature on Hughes/Iommi collaborations on the occasion of recent reissues: “I’ve always liked Glenn,” Iommi says. “We’ve been friends for many years and go way back. I’ve always loved his vocals. When they get older, most […]
Read more »Ritchie Blackmore becomes a grumpy old man and complains about modern times from his basement.
Read more »Joe Lynn Turner has a couple of collaboration tracks out.
Read more »Music Radar has a feature on how Whitesnake turned into a hair metal band, in the process nearly running itself into the ground. It is based on a 2021 DC’s interview with the Outlaw magazine. It was one of the biggest rock albums of the ’80s. Whitesnake’s 1987 – titled simply Whitesnake in America – […]
Read more »Louder Sound reprints a Prog magazine short feature on the Butterfly Ball project, stemming from a 2018 interview with Roger Glover. In 1973, Alan Aldridge and William Plomer published a picture book titled The Butterfly Ball And The Grasshopper’s Feast, based on a 19th-century poem of the same name by William Roscoe. On the surface, […]
Read more »Over the years, we’ve announced a multitude of side projects and guest appearances for the various members of the Purple family. Quite inevitably, we’ve missed a few. Here they are, at least some of them. The last number in parentheses refers to the number of tracks the corresponding musician appears on, whenever known. Don Airey: […]
Read more »Saxophone player Terry Marshall (of the Marshall amplifiers fame) has released his first album Living the Blues on October 11, 2024, via Marshall Records. Besides working alongside his father Jim, Terry became an accomplished session player, but up until now never got around to recording under his own name. Nick Simper plays bass on the […]
Read more »A jewellery artist Katya Arts presents the Steve Morse collection of unique handmade pieces crafted from sterling silver and guitar strings. I started making silver jewelry because I got inspired by a Deep Purple song, composed and played by guitarist Steve Morse. The first piece I made was a silver dreamcatcher with the inscription ”The […]
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