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Bourée in Palermo

On September 7 Ian Paice hosted a tribute to his brother in law and in arms, the late great Jon Lord. The concert took place in Palermo, Italy, where he performed with the student orchestra of Conservatorio Vincenzo Bellini conducted by Alberto Maniaci. This could very well be the first time he have performed Jon’s […]

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Shades of Nick Simper

A very interesting interview with Nick Simper from Canadian blog Music Legends published back in August, which unfortunately have received very little attention. Nick talks about the current live music scene in Britain, the story of Hush and why it turned out so different from the Billy Joe Royal’s version, the importance of Vanilla Fudge […]

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Coverdale and Doug Aldrich interview each other

In the new instalment of Whitesnake TV David Coverdale and Doug Aldrich interview each other. (watch inside)

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Glenn Hughes on Get Ready To Rock

Glenn Hughes is doing promotions for the upcoming BCC album Afterglow. On September 7 he gave an interview to Pete Feenstra for Get Ready To Rock. (watch inside)

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Hughes points finger at Ritchie

Glenn “I don’t wanna live in the past” Hughes raised the issue of Mk.3 reunion once again in an interview to the Cleveland CBS affiliate radio WCNX. And he is pointing finger at Blackmore’s camp for it not happening: Jon, David and I were trying to get it together. […] We couldn’t get ahold of […]

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A wonderful blend of slight madness

A rather interesting interview with Jon Lord (which needs some proofreading, badly). This one was conducted in 2009 and published now after Jon’s death: Hush was the first single wasn’t it? Yeah. And just an instant hit. Well again Nick Simper had said when we started rehearsing and said what should we do? You know […]

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Hughes on Planet Rock

Glenn Hughes will appear on Planet Rock radio during Darren Redick’s show on Wednesday September 12th at 2:00PM (UK time). A new song Confessor from the upcoming album Afterglow will see the world premiere during the show. Planet Rock broadcasts online, worldwide withous restrictions. Thanks to Daniel Bengtsson for the info.

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All is not well in BCC camp

The upcoming Black Country Communion’s new album might be the band’s afterglow indeed. Glenn Hughes has voiced his dissatisfaction with the state of affairs in an interview to ABC News Radio: This may be the [band’s] last album. I hate to break it to you, but it just may be, because I need to be […]

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Whitesnake TV

In the first episode of a new project called Whitesnake TV David Coverdale is being interviewed by his granddaughter Georgina for her school project.

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Gillan in Psychedelic Baby

It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine has an interview they conducted recently with Ian Gillan on the occasion of promoting his and Tony Iommi’s charity release of WhoCares: The list of musicians, that also appear on this project is amazing! How was it to work with them and how did you and Tony got along musically? I […]

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