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Gillan and Hughes on Planet Rock

Ian Gillan and Glenn Hughes, along with Brian May and Bryan Adams will appear on Planet Rock in Tony Iommi’s Guestlist show on Sunday, January 11, at 10 pm. Planet Rock broadcasts worldwide via the internet.

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Mark III reunion: episode MMIX

Rumours of a Mk3 reunion have been flying around for a while now, always turning to sum up to about exactly nothing. In the most recent resurrection of the idea, Peter Makowski of Classic Rock talks about it like of a definite possibility: In separate interviews David Coverdale, Glenn Hughes and Jon Lord have all […]

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JLT on American radio

Joe Lynn Turner will be the featured guest on Eddie Trunk’s “Friday Night Rocks” radio show on New York’s Q104.3 FM on Friday, January 9. We have no idea what they will be talking about, but an educated guess would be the Over The Rainbow project, which now has a string of confirmed live dates […]

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Coverdale offers advice to Jimmy Page

David Coverdale has offered his advice to Jimmy Page on how he thinks the Plant-less incarnation of Led Zeppelin should work. He thinks that a number of different singers should perform with the band instead of just one: My suggestion to him when I saw him in the summer was to do what Carlos Santana […]

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Purple and Black in the press

Classic Rock Magazine has made good on their promise to (finally!) put Deep Purple on the cover — they appear on the February 2009 issue. Inside the issue there is a 20-page Purple feature with interviews from Gillan, Glover, Paicey and Coverdale, excerpts from an old Blackmore interview, and sidebars on Steve Morse and JLT. […]

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Tommy Bolin biography

Touched by Magic: The Tommy Bolin Story is the new book written and published by Greg Prato. To many, Tommy Bolin was the legitimate heir to Jimi Hendrix’s rock guitar throne. Stints with the James Gang and Deep Purple –- as well as solo albums and a groundbreaking release with jazz-rocker Billy Cobham –- certainly […]

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Paicey on Planet Rock

We have an unconfirmed report that Planet Rock radio aired an interview with Ian Paice on Saturday night, December 13, and it is supposed to be repeated again on Tuesday, December 16 at 6 pm (British time presumably). Planet Rock’s schedule lists My Planet Rocks show airing on Tuesdays at 6 pm, so you might […]

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Coverdale’s press conference in Kiev

On the eve of the first ever Whitesnake concert in Ukraine, David Coverdale appeared at a press conference in Kiev. Here we present you with the complete video recording of the event (about 20 minutes long). There’s quite a few of Purple reminicencies in there and plenty of trademark David’s joviality going on.

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Blackmore’s Night on French radio

French station Radio Mercure 93FM will air a 90-minute Blackmore’s Night special on December 5 at 21:25 CET. Radio Mercure also broadcasts online in a variety of stream formats. Blackmore’s Night have a string of European dates pencilled in for the late January and early February. A tour of US South and West coast is […]

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Bolin special on US radio

Monday December 1st, from 7:00-8:00 am (central time) Stormin’ Norm from KKFI 90.1 FM in Kansas City will be having John Herdt and Johnnie Bolin as special call in guests. Norm will be discussing all things Bolin, from the new guitar by Dean to the new books on Tommy and the new Hartman Pedal. Norm […]

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