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Just like the Jersey Boys

Ian Gillan has appeared on British TV again, and this time around it went way better, thanks to great rapport with the host with a clue. In between tours, after the US tour and right before the European leg, Deep Purple’s icon Ian Gillan, made a stop to chat with Angela Rippon at the London’s […]

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These are not the same guys

Yesterday, September 25, 2026, Ian Gillan has his ‘Mr. Grover, Mr. Gillian’ moment on the national TV in UK. He appeared for a brief interview on the prime time news program. We’ll try to forgive them, for they obviously don’t know what they are doing (and, as per bloody usual, sound like strapped for time). […]

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Talking to the wind

TVGuide UK announces that a Deep Purple reunion film will be shown on Sky Arts HD from 12:30 to 3:00 AM, Monday, August 10, 2026. The blurb reads: In 1984, the classic Deep Purple line-up of Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice reunited for the album Perfect Strangers and went […]

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The kind that gets written down in history

Ritchie Blackmore Official channel posted this clip of Deep Purple miming on Italian TV to Strange Kind of Woman

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Poznan 1991

Ritchie Blackmore Official channel posted this local TV report on Deep Purple Mk. JLT visit to Poland in 1991.

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Here’s a song, tells the story…

During a May 2, 2026, 2. Budesliga football match between Dynamo Dresden and 1. FC Kaiserslautern fans started a chant that suspiciously sounds like The Riff. The game is posted to youtube, but we’re told that it is not available in many countries, so here’s an audio snippet

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Rather they bought it than stole

Jon Lord promoting his then new album Beyond the Notes on a German TV morning show. This happened on September 23, 2004.

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Curioser and curioser

[Updated Jul 17 with media reactions] The official teaser for the season 5 of Netflix horror/fantasy series Stranger Things has a familiar theme for the soundtrack.

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No words necessary

Speaking of newly restored classic videos, here’s Wring That Neck from the French TV show Chorus on November 14th, 1970.

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It’s a killing machine

A couple of items from the desk of our trainspotting department. British TV series SAS Rogue Heroes is a WW2 action/adventure drama based on “mostly true” events. What it lacks in historical accuracy, it makes up in the entertainment value. And a very anachronistic soundtrack. Season 2, episode 5 features a convoy of said rogue […]

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