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Last weekend BBC Channel 4 have aired a documentary called Heavy Metal Britannia that covers the earlier history of development of the hard and heavy music on the island, from You Really Got Me to The Number Of The Beast. A number of key figures of the era recall their first hand memories, including our […]
Read more »This Sunday February 28, Classic FM will air a brand new interview with Jon Lord along with an exclusive preview of his forthcoming album, To Notice Such Things. The show goes out on Sunday, February 28 at 9pm GMT. Listen online via http://www.classicfm.co.uk/ or find your local UK frequency: http://www.classicfm.co.uk/on-air/ways-of-listening/. Jon Lord’s new album, To […]
Read more »“Around the world in 20 concerts” is the title of the latest interview with Jon Lord published on his website. Here, he talks about a busy 2009 that took him to concert stages around the world – incl. places he’d never before visited as a solo artist – as well as into the recording studio […]
Read more »In a brand new interview for his website, Jon Lord talks about the background to his new album, “To Notice Such Things.” The album is dedicated to the memory of Jon Lord’s dear friend Sir John Mortimer, and Jon explains how the album has grown out of the music he used to play onstage with […]
Read more »You can help vote Jon Lord into Classic FM’s Hall Of Fame 2010. Last year, Jon Lord’s “Durham Concerto” was the highest new entry in Classic FM’s Hall of Fame as it jumped in at no. 75. Jon Lord’s previous album, “Boom of the Tingling Strings” reached no. 198. Vote for Jon Lord now You […]
Read more »Jon Lord will release his new all instrumental album, “To Notice Such Things”, on April 5, 2010 through Avi Records. Titled after its main work – a six movement suite for solo flute, piano and string orchestra – the album was inspired by, and is dedicated to the memory of Jon’s dear friend Sir John […]
Read more »Mickey Moody gave an interview to RockPages.gr. Not surprisingly, good three quarters of it revolves around his days in Whitesnake: Rockpages.gr: Did you feel a full member of Whitesnake or just a player in David Coverdale’s band? Micky Moody: Full member, indeed. I wasn’t getting the full money, but that’s another story! The only time […]
Read more »Child in Time, Edinburgh, Usher hall, October 5, 2009. The singer’s name is Grant Barclay. He had been given a tremendous voice and talent to use it, as evidenced by this recording. We wish him all the best in his endeavours.
Read more »Scottish music students interviewed about rehearsing the Concerto for Group and Orchestra with Jon Lord on keyboards. This Monday October 5 they will perform the Concerto at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall. Talking about their very first rehearsal with Jon Lord: – The first time he came into the room we were having a little groove going, […]
Read more »More than 40 years after Deep Purple first started touring and making records, their multifacetted musical heritage not only lives on, it is continually evolving through projects featuring other musicians, and some of them are very young. In 2009 audiences across the world are still experiencing Deep Purple. New fans come to the flock all […]
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