Don Airey was interviewed for the Rolling Stone Unknown Legends series. It’s a long form interview, with a lot of ground covered — from the humble beginnings in a cruise ship house band to the next Purple gigs, once again on a cruise ship. And everything in between. So how did the Rainbow period start? […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2022-01-26
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Roger Glover has contributed to a new book PRAVDAoNAZ: The Truth About Nazareth being prepared for publication by a Russian photographer and journalist Mikhail Vaneev. I’ll tell you something about Nazareth… they saved my life, maybe not literally, but spiritually. In June ’73, six months after we’d recorded Razamanaz, and after gruelling tours of Europe, […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2022-01-21
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In this 1987 interview George Harrison talks about the first time he saw Deep Purple in concert and jammed with them. Which happened on December 13, 1984, in Sydney, Australia.
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2022-01-13
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Some time late last year “el histórico bajista de Deep Purple” Roger Glover spoke to Chilean Radio Futuro about staying at home, space flights, lockdowns, best cups of coffe, and of course, music.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2022-01-06
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Louder Sound has a new feature on Turning to Crime, and it starts without mincing the words too much: People often think a covers album is a sign of having run out of ideas, having a contract to fulfil, or maybe both. Deep Purple’s new covers album Turning To Crime is neither The article is […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2021-12-29
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Glenn Hughes and Doug Aldrich appeared on a podcast called In the Trenches with Ryan Roxie (Ryan himself is of guitar player for Alice Cooper fame). An hour long chat included an interview and Q&A with the fans.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2021-12-27
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Don Airey spoke to a trade magazine Sound & Vision. While his interview is promising to be a delight to all keyboard geeks out there, there’s also something in it for the rest of us. Mike Mettler: I’m sure you must enjoy threading the lineage between you and your predecessor, Jon Lord [Deep Purple’s founding […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2021-12-26
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In a recent interview with Ultimate Classic Rock Joe Satriani reminisces about his stint as a Deep Purple guitar player. Thinking about your brief time in Deep Purple in the ‘90s, how much, if at all, did that prepare you to be in a band like Chickenfoot? Well, there are a couple of things that […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2021-12-26
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Greek site Rockpages has interviewed Bernie Marsden on the occasion of his recent release Chess. The extended and rather interesting conversation invariably turned onto his days with PAL and Whitesnake: Rockpages.gr: I was reading the Classic Rock magazine lately with an interview of yours where you said that the best album you’ve ever made was […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2021-12-24
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Tony Iommi was interviewed recently by Eddie Trunk. The interview appeared in his Sirius XM show and later was posted as a podcast. Amid promoting Iommi’s latest venture (which is a fragrance of all things), the conversation turned onto Born Again. ‘Born Again,’ we talked about in the past, you always said you wanted to […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2021-12-21
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