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The Rainbow Fanclan has a new interview with Graham Bonnet where he delves into some historical anecdotage: – You recorded “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” before you were in Rainbow, so I assume it was your idea to do it live. No, not at all [laughs] – Did Ritchie hear you sang it before. […]
Read more »Our own Roger checks in with his customary end-of-the-year message: What’s it all about then? I’m sure you often wonder about that. Well so do I. There are several possible answers to that rather ambiguous and immense question. In no particular order, here are a few… love, balance, survival, power, sex, cabbage, passion, knowledge, hors […]
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While in London on the UK tour, Roger Glover has found the time to draw a sketch and donate it to the No Surrender Charitable Trust to be auctioned off as a part of their Art of Music ’09 program. The Ebay auction for the drawing has just started and will continute until December 7.
This is an interview that Gillan and Glover did circa 1987 for the German TV. Make all you want out of it, but I’ve found it, ahem, entertaining 😉
Read more »Back in 2003 ITV1 Wales did a documentary on Roger Glover. Now, with it’s appearance on Youtube, all of us who missed it on TV and on the bootlegger’s grapevine, have a chance to see it.
Read more »Rockpages.gr has a rather interesting interview with Graham Bonnet. While undoubtedly it was prompted by his resurrection of Alcatrazz, a good half of the interview is about the Rainbow days.
Read more »Wolfgang’s Vault has posted an entire recording of the much bootlegged radio broadcast of the 1981 Rainbow show at the Orpheum Theater in Boston, Mass. We are not sure how long it will stay there as previously Wolfgang’s Vault had to pull off some material because of licensing issues, but enjoy while it lasts.
Read more »Gillan/Glover album Accidentally On Purpose remains one of the most unique works in the Purple family. Here are some video clips from that period.
Read more »As previously reported exclusively by The Highway Star, seven rolls of 8mm film from Deep Purple’s 1972 concerts in Japan have come to light. We also promised you a look at the film. Click on this photo to see a series of screen grabs from the black & white film. 90 seconds of Highway Star […]
Read more »DEEP PURPLE – ‘HISTORY, HITS & HIGHLIGHTS’ 2DVD Containing a wealth of historical 1960s and 1970s footage, Eagle Rock Entertainment will release the new Deep Purple 2DVD set “History, Hits & Highlights 1968-76” on June 1, 2009 [Cat No EREDV726]. According to YourWayToMusic.com, the new DVD set will combine full performances and a small number […]
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Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing