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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 »[Updated Aug 25 w/part 13] In anticipation of the upcoming reissue, powers-that-be are teaspoon feeding us what Roger Glover and Ian Paice have to say about Made in Japan. This post will be updated if and when further chunks are released, which will bump it in the News in brief column on the left.
Read more »The Guardian has a piece on the casino burning down and associated shenanigans as a part of their How we made series. With input from Roger Glover and Ian Paice. RG: There’s a great photograph of singer Ian Gillan with his notebook open and the first two verses written. I’m sat opposite him listening to […]
Read more »Paicey is unboxing the newly remixed Made in Japan, which is due out next week
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 »Members of Metallica Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, and Robert Trujillo confess their love and admiration for Deep Purple
Read more »Back in 2016, when Deep Purple were performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Simon Robinson arranged a visit of Roger Glover and Don Airey to the building that used to be The Grand Hotel in 1971. Here is Roger talking about the events that unfolded 45 years prior right where it happened.
Read more »More of the Derek Lawrence recollections of the days gone by. Some of it overlaps with what you may have seen on these pages previously, but it never hurts to do it again.
Read more »Derek Lawrence recalls his association with Joe Meek, meeting Ritchie Blackmore, and a new band coalescing around them.
Read more »Ritchie Blackmore reminisces about being in Hamburg, doing nothing, when he got a telegram from Chris Curtis…
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