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New Blackmore interviews

Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night interviewed on Bulgarian radio: listen from candicenight.ru (MP3, 21 min). The new issue (#28) of the Fireworks magazine is out in May. It features interviews with Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan and Joe Lynn Turner all in one issue. Fireworks magazine: http://www.rathole.com/fireworks/ Fireworks at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/fireworks_magazine Thanks to Mike Garrett for […]

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North American version of “Journey In Rock”

Here is the situation with the North American version of the Ian Gillan’s DVD “Highway Star – A Journey In Rock”, straight from it’s producer. Exactly what does “cut a different version” mean? Does this mean the NTSC might not be 2 discs or will contain substantially different material than the European release? Any idea […]

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Gillan interview in Swedish magazine

There’s a new interview with Ian Gillan in the latest issue of Sweden Rock Magazine. On the Gillan split: Q: The Gillan split was a bitter one. In case McCoy and Underwood would be reading this article, what would you say to them? IG: Well, what can one say? They claim that I cheated them […]

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“Smoke This!” book signings

Ian Gillan will be signing copies of ‘Smoke This’ at the following Borders bookstores during the UK tour: Bournemouth – Friday 27th April @ 5 pm – 6 pm Brighton – Sunday 29th April @ 2.30 pm – 3:30 pm Thanks to Caramba! for the info.

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Gillan in Heaven and Hell – April Fools

As you probably have already heard, following the gig at the Radio City Music Hall on March 30th, Ronnie James Dio has announced that he is quitting Heaven and Hell tour for undisclosed reasons. Apparently Tony Iommi wants to fulfil the band’s extensive US and European touring commitments in April/May/June. He has asked Ian Gillan […]

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Gillan competition at Jukebox

There is Ian Gillan competition running at the Jukebox. First prize will be a copy of the new DVD “Highway Star — A Journey in Rock” and a complete set of the re-released Gillan albums. Two runners-up will receive the DVD. The competition closes on March 30, 2006 at 23:59 GMT. Thanks to the Jukebox […]

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Ian Gillan interview

Ian Gillan gave an interview in the biggest Israeli internet site YNET. The inteview can be found here (in hebrew), but the audio part is in English. If you don’t get audio on the above page, try here or here. Thanks to Eyal Ortal for the info.

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NEC 1993 withdrawn by BMG

We have reported yesterday that Gillan is unhappy with BMG re-releasing the Birmingham NEC 1993 show on CD. The plot thickens. In an interview conducted by BBC he said that the album was re-released without his knowledge. BMG immediately announced that they are withdrawing the album, all the grand total of 2,000 copies that were […]

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Gillan unhappy with BMG

The Live in Europe 1993 4CD box set containing both Stuttgart and Birmingham shows from which Come Hell And High Water CD was compiled, have been recently rereleased by Sony/BMG as two individual 2CD sets. Apart from an obvious attempt of milking the cow to the last drop on behalf of BMG, the rerelease of […]

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Gillan and Paice interviewed for The Sun

British newspaper The Sun features Deep Purple on their “Something For The Weekend” page today, February 16. Ian Gillan and Ian Paice were both interviewed for the article. Read the full article in The Sun’s online edition and some outtakes posted on Caramba. Thanks to Steve Campbell (Caramba!) for the info.

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