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Down the rabbit holes never visited

It’s not that often that you read a reveiew of an album (any album) that is so eloquent that it makes you wipe that grin off your face, put everything aside and listen to the said album again. Cory Frye’s review of Now what?! in Albany Democrat-Herald is just like that: Which brings us to […]

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A genius at keyboard

Don Airey was interviewed by Classic Rock Revisited. he talked about Now What?!, Bob Ezrin, the spirit of Jon Lord, Wurlitzers, and the great guitar players he worked with. Don Airey had the seemingly impossible task of replacing the amazing Jon Lord when he joined Deep Purple eleven years ago. To say he’s done okay […]

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Glover in Vintage Rock

Roger Glover chats with Vintage Rock about Now what?! from his home in Switzerland (this was done probably before the album was released): This is your fifth record with Steve Morse and your third with Don Airey and I have to say, these two guys really come to the fore. With Don Airey, it’s like […]

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Never in fashion

Music Radar has an interview with Roger Glover presented in the form of a monologue. Interestingly enough, Now what?! gets a fairly brief mention, with the bulk dedicated to Roger’s illustrious career with Purple, solo, Rainbow, as a songwriter, and as a producer. We’re not very good at planning things to be honest. We’re a […]

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German bonus track is rock’n’roll fun

“Somebody tell me why I’m talking to myself, I never listen to a word I sing, nor does anyone else.” The opening lines of First Sign of Madness set the tone for a straight forward rock’n’roll track complete with boogie piano. This Deep Purple song is available exclusively to German fans as a download from […]

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Luxury real estate, designer retrospective and… Deep Purple

Now what?! is featured in the latest podcast of German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle lifestyle show Euromaxx. It is rather bizzare to see the band covered in a show that features such things as luxury real estate on Mallorca, a Bouroullec retrospective in Paris, and eating raw cuisine. They also offer a free CD signed […]

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Purple blitzkrieg

Roger Glover chats with Martin Popoff about musical blitzkriegs, styles, sonics, prolific players, dull strings, abrasive admirals, leaping out, and being easy to get along with: DEEP PURPLE’s first platter in eight years, NOW What?!, began life on the internet with a light advance track called ‘All The Time In The World’, one that had […]

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First day, first chart success

Now what?! has been released in a number of countries today, April 26, and is charting very well on Amazon.de. At the time of this writing (23:43 CEST) the limited edition is at #2 in overall album chart (with only a Bravo magazine compilation sneaking ahead) and #1 in ‘Hard Rock’, ‘Rock’, and ‘Limited Edition’ […]

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2013-04-26 – Deep Purple – Now What?!

Who Deep Purple – Now What?! When Friday, April 26, 2013 20:00 – – All Ages Where edel / earMUSIC Europe (map) Europe Other InfoBrand new studio album from Deep Purple. Release dates Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Ukraine: April 26 UK, France, Benelux, Poland, Czech Republic, Norway, Denmark, Greece, HongKong, Malaysia, Singapore, […]

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Steve’s track-by-track

Music Radar has track-by-track commentary of Now what?! from Steve Morse: A Simple Song This was Rog playing a dyad riff on the bass. We had a lot of variations on that part. Whenever anybody brings in an idea, they have to be prepared that it’s going to change. But this thing of Roger’s was […]

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