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Israeli English language daily The Jerusalem Post has a very positive, if somewhat superficial, review of the first gig (February 22) in Tel-Aviv: The ‘explosion’ on the stage started at 9:30 p.m. Saturday night and did not stop for two hours. Yes they are senior citizens but if you put your hands over your eyes […]
Read more »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 […]
Read more »Russian magazine InRock features Now What?! as it’s cover story in issue #2(58)/2013. We are working on obtaining the original English text of the interview they did with Ian Gillan for republication on The Highway Star. Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov for the info.
Read more »To commemorate release of the new album, Classic Rock Magazine will publish a limited edition special issue (number 184): A limited edition with a foil cover, it includes 12 pages of additional Deep Purple content including Q&A’s with all members of the band and an extended buyers guide by long-term fan and Purple expert Geoff […]
Read more »When Abandon was released, the American record company at the time, CMC International, had some idea of radio promotion for the disc. A couple of singles were released and they also produced a bunch of interview clips. The interviews were made like short sound bites you could edit together with appropriate questions from your own […]
Read more »Deep Purple gave a press conference in Dubai ahead of the first show of the tour. Looks like everybody had a lot of fun, however only Ian Gillan’s answers were published. On the favourite song to perform: No. The show is an entity and it goes from one thing to another. They all have dynamics, […]
Read more »Times Colonist from Victoria, BC, has published Roger Glover’s interview/profile: Now, every night I step on stage I value it immensely. [Performing] is something very few people get to experience, therefore I can’t take it for granted. That’s the only time when there’s no distractions. There’s no phone calls, there’s no computers, there’s no family, […]
Read more »Calgary Herald has published Ian Gillan’s profile/interview, which for once, is a little better researched than you average mainstream press fare. On the news album he sounds rather enthusiastic: “I think it’s time for some new material it always injects a spark and I think we need a little lift now. There’s a lot of […]
Read more »The Hamilton Spectator has Steve Morse’s profile and interview mostly revolving around the story behind Contact Lost: I’m a big fan of what NASA has done. People don’t realize the research and development strides that have been made, all that technology. We’re recipients of all of that eventually. Read more in The Hamilton Spectator. Saskatoon’s […]
Read more »As the Canadian tour approaches, musician’s profiles and interviews start appearing in local media. Niagara This Week has Steve Morse’s profile titled The Morse Code. London Free Press (that’s London, Ontario) has a rather interesting interview with Ian Paice where he does not mince his words: I believe that we have another good record in […]
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