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Blabbermouth reports that Joe Lynn Turner will be a member of the jury for the Russian song contest Intervision that will take place in Moscow on September 20, 2025. Intervision 2025 is a Russian state-sponsored music competition, decreed by Russian president Vladimir Putin in February as an alternative to the popular Eurovision Song Contest, which […]
Read more »Joe Lynn Turner has recorded a track for the upcoming tribute album from Cleopatra Records called Yacht Metal — Yacht Rock Goes Heavier & Louder. It is a cover of Ride Captain Ride, originally by Blues Image. The track is now available as a single. It was 1970 and ‘Ride Captain Ride’ was the big […]
Read more »The band takes some time for a well deserved break from the touring. We hope some of that downtime is being used to make some new music. Meanwhile, various members of the family continue touring on their own and with different projects, albeit mostly in Europe. Ian Paice kicks off the year in late January […]
Read more »Joe Lynn Turner has a couple of collaboration tracks out.
Read more »Roger Glover and Joe Lynn Turner are among the guest musicians on Michael Schenker’s new album of UFO remakes. It is called My Years with UFO and is due to be released on September 20, 2024, via earMUSIC. Track listing Natural Thing (feat. Dee Snider, Joel Hoekstra) Only You Can Rock Me (feat. Joey Tempest, […]
Read more »Here are a couple of excerpts from what appears the same Joe Lynn Turner interview, published on two different YouTube channels. JLT is reminiscing about his work with Ritchie Blackmore and Yngwie Malmsteen.
Read more »Joe Lynn Turner has announced the arrival of his newborn son: On this very special day, of our 12th wedding anniversary, there is nothing more sacred and bonding between my Wife and I, as this beautiful Angel that we named Matteo (which means gift from God)… Our sacred union is complete and our hearts are […]
Read more »Joe Lynn Turner appeared on The Real Music Observer podcast. It starts with talking about music (Slaves & Masters, in particular), but quickly deteriorates into JLT ranting. About stuff. And nothing says ‘level-headed individual’ better than a good old-fashioned rant into a wide angle lens. /s Proceed at your own peril.
Read more »Rolling Stone has a long form interview with Joe Lynn Turner, focusing on his days in Rainbow and Deep Purple. This was done for the magazine’s King for a Day series that “features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and singers who had the difficult job of fronting major rock bands after the departure […]
Read more »Another “visual” book pre-order — Rainbow: A Visual Biography by renowned Blackmorologist Jerry Bloom. From 1975, through the eighties, re-activated in the nineties and a slight return in 2016-18, Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow took its fans on numerous journeys from the grandiose beginnings with Ronnie James Dio to the chart busting times with Graham Bonnet and […]
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