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The joys of country living
This is a 1977 vintage interview with the country gentleman Ian Gillan, taken during the IGB Japanese tour.
Read more »Rarely trod the conventional path
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 »Not so hot on ‘why’
That other opera singer is getting awestruck again by Ian Gillan’s take on Gethsemane
Read more »Chopin’s story revisited
Continuing with the tidal wave of Gillan news, the 2011 documentary about Frédéric Chopin narrated by Big Ian has been recently posted on ’em intertubes. Due to the scarcity of archival footage of Mr. Chopin, we get to see a lot of the narrator, riding horse carriages and tractors, and even partaking in a village […]
Read more »Ще не вмерла Україна
Ian Gillan’s autobiography has been published in Ukraine. It was translated by Gennady Shpak (text) and Julia Vrotna (lyrics), and edited by Volodymyr Drybushchak, who himself is a well published author of quite a few books on Deep Purple and family. With Ian’s blessings, Volodymyr corrected several factual inaccuracies that sneaked into the original. Sounds […]
Read more »She’s anarchy and treason
A newly restored video for Gillan track Sleeping on the Job off the Glory Road album has been posted on YouTube
Read more »Tonight on the telly
Hot off the press, and slightly unverified. Tonight, November 12, at 11pm local time, Ian Gillan will be hosting a show on channel 358 (NOW Rock) of Sky TV.
Read more »Definitely not the last
Ian Gillan spoke to The Yorkshire Post: In a few days you’ll be embarking on a five-date UK arena tour. Are you looking forward to it? Absolutely. We’re very much looking forward to it. This tour actually started in May but we are finishing in the UK so we are definitely looking forward to it […]
Read more »Shock to the system
Ahead of the current =1 More Time UK tour, Ian Gillan spoke to the PA News Agency, and the conversation steered, of all things, onto the ’72 tour that produced Made in Japan. In Japan, I noticed the first thing was the cultural change. I was able to do two things, one to learn about […]
Read more »Up and down, in and out, back and front
Ian Gillan was interviewed by The Portugal News (which is kinda sorta his hometown newspaper now). He gave his views on the number of tracks from =1, and on the arrival of Simon McBride as the newest member of the band. Which was a good thing because… […] it put the band back into simpler […]
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