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Watching the grass grow

Tony Iommi is doing interviews promoting his new solo album From the Dark, and Planet Rock asked him about the Born Again remix saga. Said saga has been going on since 2021, and his answers didn’t shed much light on the progress (he basically said pretty much the same in 2024). Yes, there is a […]

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Windows up, or down?

Episode 4 of Phil Aston’s interview with Ritchie Blackmore, wherein the latter talks about the exciting drive home from Jones Beach.

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No time for fashion either

Another interview that Ian Gillan did during the last lull of touring, promoting his Talking Gib’rish spoken word tour. This one was done by Louise Penn for her blog LouReviews, and announced in our forum. What’s one thing you regret doing, and one thing you regret not doing? Shooting a blackbird when I was a […]

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Old men talking about their illnesses

Here’s the third part of Phil Aston’s interview with Ritchie Blackmore. In the third instalment of my exclusive 13-part interview series, Ritchie talks about meeting the band backstage, how his family reacted to the occasion, his concerns before walking onto the stage — and how the evening felt once it was all over. Previous episodes: […]

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Beverly hillbillies in Jones Beach

Part 2 of Phil Aston’s interview with Ritchie Blackmore

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Medieval bossa nova

Ritchie Blackmore Official channel reposts this CNN short feature from 2007 where Blackmore pulls the interviewer’s leg with the straightest of his faces and tells that The Riff was nicked from Beethoven’s Fifth. This legend is still being repeated at face value to this day by some unscrupulous publications.

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Rising again

Darker Than Blue reports that Ritchie Blackmore has been booked to appear on UK radio station Planet Rock on Sunday, October 11, 2026, between 5 and 6pm. The show is called The Longer Player with Mark Jeeves, and his appearance will be on occasion of the 50th anniversary of Rainbow Rising. One can listen to […]

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The best-dressed Leprechaun

In this new interview with The Chap Ian Gillan discusses the Hounslow Heath, Terry-Thomas‘ inheritance, dress codes, hairstyles, music styles, wireless apartheid, and skinny dipping, among other things. Do you prefer the term heavy rock or hard rock for Deep Purple? If you want to pick a genre, then I would prefer hard rock. Only […]

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Just like the Jersey Boys

Ian Gillan has appeared on British TV again, and this time around it went way better, thanks to great rapport with the host with a clue. In between tours, after the US tour and right before the European leg, Deep Purple’s icon Ian Gillan, made a stop to chat with Angela Rippon at the London’s […]

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Somebody stole his guitar

Steve Morse sat down to chat with Guitar World at the last NAMM, which was held in January 2026. They teased the interview in May, promising to publish it in full “in the near future”. After the appropriate period of gestation, the future is apparently now. Here Steve shows not only that he can play […]

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