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Music Radar has a short interview with Glenn Hughes, focusing mainly on his bass gear. How has your bass rig evolved since your days with Trapeze in the early ’70s? Well, Trapeze was all Hiwatt amps. And I wasn’t using pedals back then. I started using pedals in Deep Purple. But for me, it was […]

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Towering

Metal Planet Music reviews in the most glowing terms the freshly released Glenn Hughes’ album Chosen. The Voice of Rock is back and taking no prisoners. ‘Chosen’ comes nine years after last solo album ‘Resonate’ gained huge critical and public acclaim and shows that there’s still fire in his belly and a larynx that’s the […]

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Calm in a crazy world

Glenn Hughes was a guest on the Metal Mayhem ROC podcast talking about, for the most part, the usual things he talks about in the interviews these days. One thing that is newish here is the anecdote of him almost joining the nascent Ozzy’s band in 1979. And Glenn’s genuine reaction to learning (while being […]

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In the year nine-ninety-two

Classic Rock has a feature on Glenn Hughes’ appearance on a KLF track America: What Time Is Love?, although there is little that we didn’t know from before. All they needed was someone with a screaming voice to match the song’s beefed up sound. Enter Glenn Hughes. “We were originally supposed to be doing the […]

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Music is the healer

Glenn Hughes was interviewed by the Thunder Underground podcast, talking about his upcoming solo album Chosen, BCC, the recent appearance on the SatchVai record, and more. The interview segment starts about 13 minutes into the podcast.

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…And it’s not Ritchie Blackmore

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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The R-word

Glenn Hughes was recently a guest on SiriusXM satellite radio show Trunk Nation. This is what he had to say when asked about his retirement: The word retirement is something I don’t normally say. A good story for you there. In June, I went on a tour of Europe with Black Country Communion, and Joe […]

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Can you repeat that again?

Glenn Hughes talks to the equally vague and esoteric host of the Brudne Brzmienie (The Dirty Sound) podcast. It’s off to a rough start, but gets better as they progress.

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Into the Fade

Another track from the upcoming Glenn Hughes album Chosen has been posted. Here’s Into the Fade

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Two voices in his head

Continuing with the Glenn’s promotion blitz, here are two more interviews. In the first one, Glenn talks to the Now Spinning Magazine: Glenn Hughes joins me for an exclusive in-depth interview about CHOSEN, his first solo album in nine years — and possibly his final rock album. In this emotional and deeply personal conversation, Glenn […]

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