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A brand new audio interview with Glenn Hughes, conducted recently by the Coast To Coast webzine, has been made available for download here (MP3, 23 MB). Glenn offers the latest on tentative live dates in the USA, the status of Hughes/Thrall 2, a possible Mk. III reunion, a new DVD and reuniting with a blast […]
Read more »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.
Read more »British newspaper Express & Star have published an interview with Ian Gillan in it’s online edition. Among other things, Ian said that the band is heading off to the studio by the end of this year. Read the full interview here.
Read more »The upcoming Issue 53 of the Renaissance Magazine will have the feature article of Blackmores Night. Look on the news stands in February, or check their web site for availability. Thanks to Mike Garrett for the info.
Read more »KNAC.com has a rather lengthy interview with Ian Gillan about Gillan’s Inn album and tour and about DP. Nothing really groundbreaking and a usual sprinkle of Gillan’s exaggerations (somebody please tell him that the average age at Purple concerts is far from 18, even outside of America). But here it is anyway. Thanks to Mike […]
Read more »Indian newspaper The Economic Times has a rather interesting (for a mainstream publication) article about pitfalls of Deep Purple being labelled as a “classic rock” band: And yet, the classic tag is not something Ian Gillan, the band’s frontman for the largest part of its existence, is comfortable with. “We’ve been an underground band since […]
Read more »Deep Purple is on the cover of the Brazilian rock magazine called “Comando Rock“, issue 31, November 2006. Thanks to Albertino Viveiros and Comando Rock for the information.
Read more »There is an interview with Ian Gillan in the Polish journal, “Forum” issue 46 (13-19th November). The interview is a reprint from the Russian paper, “Itogi“, 7th October. Here is the interview in russian. Thanks to Joasia Ostrowiecka for the information.
Read more »When Ian Gillan were in San Francisco earlier in the week, he answered a few questions from Don Sanchez at ABC7/KGO-TV/DT. Here are a few bits: About Ian’s source of inspiration. “My grandpa was an opera singer, my uncle a jazz pianist. I was a boy soprano in the chuch choir and all.” About doing […]
Read more »Ian Gillan took some time off from his North America tour and answerd a few questions from Mike Ross at Edmonton Sun. Here is a few bits: About that Luciano Pavarotti nearly sang “Smoke On The Water” on Gillan’s Inn. “I sang Nessum Dorma a couple of times on his charity thing, so he owed […]
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