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A couple of long term Gillan’s talks. You’ll need an hour and a half to go through them, so plan accordingly. On September 11, 2025, Ian Gillan was a guest in a Zoom meeting organized by The Third Age Trust. Here he talks about all thing in his life, from the early childhood to celebrating […]
Read more »German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine celebrates Ian Gillan’s 80th birthday in style, with a feature article. With Deep Purple in the early 1970s, he shaped rock vocals like no other. His shrieking yet melodic “Child in Time” remains emblematic to this day. Ian Gillan is now turning eighty. In his autobiography, Ian Gillan cites a questionnaire […]
Read more »[Updated Jul 24 with Blackmore reaction] As you have probably heard, Ozzy Osbourne has died on July 22, 2025, just a couple of weeks after his farewell show, and a week after his last public appearance.
Read more »And another contribution to our quickly growing better-late-than-never section. British newspaper The Sun had an interview with Ian Gillan published in July 2024, around the time =1 was released. Our regulars, particularly those who’ve been around the block once or twice, aren’t very likely to learn anything new from there. Curiously, the article is illustrated […]
Read more »The band has broken the lull in public appearances by speaking to Brazil’s 89FM A Radio Rock. Enjoy some out of the left field questions and equally quirky answers.
Read more »Armenian agency Mediamax shares an account of two Ian Gillan’s charity performances in Armenia in 2010: Fifteen years ago, on March 26 and 27, 2010, I was the happiest person in the world. If you were present at Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan’s charity concerts with the Armenian State Philharmonic Orchestra on those days, you […]
Read more »A couple of vintage Ian Gillan interviews on Louder Sound. First, was a 2015 contemporary chat with Geoff Barton on the occasion of another snub of Deep Purple by the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame (the band was eventually inducted next year). As such, the interview was a part of Classic Rock feature celebrating the band, […]
Read more »This is a 1977 vintage interview with the country gentleman Ian Gillan, taken during the IGB Japanese tour.
Read more »Louder Sound has a recent (conducted in November 2024) interview with Ian Gillan about his Gillan the band years. Big Ian seems frank, not avoiding unpleasant topics, and does not mince words much. Gillan the band’s forerunners the Ian Gillan Band had come to an end when keyboard player Colin Towns brought in a song […]
Read more »That other opera singer is getting awestruck again by Ian Gillan’s take on Gethsemane
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