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Bernie Marsden gave an interview to the French website RockNLive Social Media. He spoke about his new solo album Shine, that includes guest appearances by his friends, old and new. Shine is due out on August 18 in CD and 2LP formats via Provogue/Mascot Records. Thanks to Yvonne for the info.

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Bernie Marsden: Shine

Bernie Marsden’s new solo album called Shine (about which we wrote in November) is ready and will be released on August 18 via Provogue/Mascot Records. Although Marsden was wary of flooding the credits with too many special guests, Shine does feature some extremely well-known names, from Joe Bonamassa to Whitesnake singer David Coverdale and the […]

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Don Airey — Mini Suite

Listen to a track from Don Airey’s new solo album Keyed Up. The track is called Mini Suite and features contribution from the late Gary Moore (hint: guitar on the first two sections is actually by Simon McBride). Thanks to Classic Rock for the info.

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One take with a bit of a jam at the end

A lengthy and rather entertaining interview with Don Airey appears in Metal Shrine: I just realized that you´ve spent a great deal of time in Deep Purple by now. How would you describe these years? Don Airey: Yes, I´m amazed myself. Well, very fruitful and I couldn´t have wished for anything nicer to happen to […]

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Keyed Up on the radio

Get Ready To Rock radio has an early review of Don Airey’s solo album Keyed Up. Don himself will appear on the air on Sunday, February 2, at 18:00 BST to talk to the host David Randall, while later on, at 20:00 Stuart Hamilton will profile him in his Purple People series. Get Ready to […]

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Keyed Up

Don Airey’s new solo album is set to be released in February. Full press release follows: ‘Keyed Up’, the new studio album from renowned keyboard maestro Don Airey will be released through Music Theories Recordings, a division of Mascot Label Group on 17 February 2014 [Cat. No. MTR 7408 2]. This is Don’s fourth studio […]

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Pulling in a few favours

Gibson.com has an interview with Bernie Marsden, in which he reveals that he’s finishing a solo album and how quite a star studded it is turning to be: Who else is on the album? David Coverdale has graciously sung a song for me, which is, of course, fantastic. We’ve re-recorded “Trouble” from our Whitesnake days […]

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More Don Airey on British radio

Don Airey will do a couple more radio appearances to promote his new solo album All Out. On Wednesday, September 21st, he will appear on BBC Radio Cambridge in the Sue Marchant evening entertainment show. The show runs between 7 and 9 pm, with Don scheduled to appear between 8:00 and 8:30 pm. The show […]

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All Out is now out

Don Airey’s new solo album All Out is now available on Music Theory/Mascot. Besides Don himself, who handled all the keyboards, musicians on the album are: Bernie Marsden (Guitar), Carl Sentance (Vocals), Darrin Mooney (Drums), Keith Airey (Guitar), Laurence Cottle (Bass), Joe Bonamassa (Guitar), and Rob Harris (Guitar). Track list: The Way I Feel Inside […]

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If Life Was Easy release dates

The has been a bit of confusion as to the exact release dates of the new Roger Glover’s solo album If Life Was Easy in different countries. Here’s a complete breakdown: Germany and Austria: released on July 8th Russia: July 11 France: July 18 (although Amazon.fr is already shipping it) Italy: July 26 Spain and […]

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