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Let’s talk about situation in North Vietnam

Blackmore’s interview from the Arte TV show “Tracks” has been rebroadcasted on the French version of the channel and here you can actually hear what he’s saying as the interview itself is without the voiceover translation.

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Jon Lord: Music is not like taking a photograph…

Metal Express Radio has an audio interview that they conducted with Jon Lord on the eve of Durham Concert premiere. Jon talks about how the Durham Concerto came to life, his approach to writing music and his legacy of orchestral music going back to Concerto for Group and Orchestra, and his plans to “do something” […]

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There’s naked joy to their music making…

Check out an excellent interview with Roger Glover published on Jambase.com: Face-to-face backstage, Glover was a casually dressed, quiet, very articulate gent with reading glasses hanging from a chain around his neck. It’s a far cry from the perpetually erect persona he thrusts at us onstage, the one with a bandana clinging tight to his […]

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Don Airey interview on Metalhead.ro

In anticipation of the first concert of European tour, Romanian magazine Metalhead published an interview with Don Airey in it’s online edition: Thanks to Metalhead.ro for permission to reproduce the interview.

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– One heck of a cathedral!

On Saturday Jon Lord and the Liverpool Philharmonics premiered his Durham Concerto at Durham Cathedral. In a TV interview the day before the show, Lord called his latest venue ‘One heck of a cathedral’ and went on to expand on how he wrote the new Durham Concerto – and how Deep Purple became the loudest […]

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Jon Lord interview in The Northern Echo

The Northern Echo has published an interview with Jon Lord, in which he discusses his past with Deep Purple, the difficult decision to leave the band and the story behind Durham Concerto. It was gut-wrenching to leave. It was my band, I was the founder member and the guys were huge buddies of mine. I […]

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New Q&A with Steve Morse

There is a new Q&A with Steve Morse on the new official Deep Purple website. His ultimate imaginary band: I have played with some of the best living musicians already, and have always appreciated that. It might be interesting to imagine a band of departed musicians with Keith Moon on drums, Barry Oakley (Allman bros.) […]

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Steve Morse on Playback:stl

There is a brand new interview with Steve Morse on Playback:stl. Derek Lauer writes in his introduction: There was an incredible synergy of brilliant musicians at the University of Miami in Florida in the early ’70s, with people in the School of Music like Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Hiram Bullock, Andy West, Rod Morgenstein and […]

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Roger: we’re connected with Montreux at the hip

In the wake of Monteux’2006 release, Classic Rock Revisited has published Peter Lindblad’s interview with Roger Glover. Roger discusses special connection the band shares with this swiss town, the infamous Casino fire that laid down the story told in Smoke on the Water, their appearances at the Monterux Jazz Festival, and the upcoming French tour. […]

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Gillan takes side in local controvercy

Ian Gillan spoke to his local newspaper Dorset Echo backing the opposition against a road project, over which the tempers are apparently flying very high (just check the comments to the article on newspaper’s website). The bone of contention seems to be the Dorset County Council’s plan to build a relief road from Dorchester (county […]

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