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Winter Carols, the 2013 edition

Without much fanfare, on November 15 Blackmore’s Night released an updated version of their Cristmas album Winter Carols. The 2013 edition comes on 2 CDs, with the first appear to be identical with the original album that came out in 2006, and second one containing bonus tracks: Hark the Herald Angels Sing / O Come […]

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“Gold Edition” formats rundown

[Updated with tracklist and artwork] The Now What?! tour gold edition that will be released on November 29 in continental Europe and December 2 in the UK will come in following flavours: Double CD, with the first disc containing the original studio album, plus bonus tracks It’ll Be Me and First Sign Of Madness. Second […]

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Perfect Strangers Live in the charts

Since its release earlier this month, Perfect Strangers Live enjoyed success in the charts. As the album was released on both video and audio, it had a chance to enter charts in both categories (where available): UK Music Video Top 40 #1 on (week ending) October 26, #8 on November 2; #15 on November 9, […]

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Made in Japan documentary teaser

The original management company Deep Purple (Overseas) has posted a teaser for the Made in Japan documentary that is being prepared for release some time early next year: The documentary component highlights the Mark 2 period of the band with a focus on the recording of ‘Machine Head’, the friction that developed within the band, […]

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Tour edition update

Edel has released an updated tracklist for the Now what?! tour edition. The second CD (a.k.a. Live Tapes) portion is now: Strange Kind Of Woman Hard Loving Man Vincent Price Contact Lost All The Time in The World No One Came Bodyline Perfect Strangers Above And Beyond Lazy Black Night Smoke On The Water Live […]

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Fire up your karaoke machines

In an effort to promote the tour a.k.a. gold edition of Now what?! (which has been postponed to late November – early December) the record company has posted an instrumental mix of Hell to Pay.

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Perfect Strangers Live – first review

This was posted in our comments section elsewhere on the site. We decided to edit it an promote to a standalone post, so you can post your own impressions of the DVD in the comments. I received the Japanese DVD of this show 2 or 3 weeks ago. Black Night should be familiar to most […]

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One for the road

Perfect Strangers Live is out today and the record company offers another clip.

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Black Night from Perfect Strangers Live

Eagle Rock has posted a second preview clip from the Perfect Strangers Live DVD, which is due to be released on October 14.

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Flying Colors Live in Europe preview

Classic Rock magazine has an audio preview of all 17 tracks from the upcoming Live in Europe album by Flying Colors. It does not seem to be easily embeddable elsewhere, so you’ll have to head over there to listen. Live in Europe is due to be released on October 14 via Mascot Records.

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