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Coronation Street Concerto

Concerto for Group and Orchestra got a name check in an episode of a British soap opera Coronation Street that aired on November 11.

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Granpa Don

Deep Purple (complete with the tree generation of the Airey clan) were featured on the local news in Düsseldorf, Germany, where they played on October 29. You can watch the news report on WDR.de (in German). The relevant segment starts at 12:44 into the programme and continues for 5 minutes. Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen for […]

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Blackmore’s Night on German TV

Blackmore’s Night have appeared today, July 16 in Bayerischer Fernsehen programme Abendschau. Warning: these are high resolution videos, you can select lower resolution by viewing directly from BR.de here and here. Interview with Ritchie and Candice (complete with a facepalm moment of showing footage of Tommy Bolin while introducing the “legendary songwriter and guitar player”): […]

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Ian & Ian in Moscow

Gillan and Paice continue their promotional tour. On Friday, May 3, they were in Moscow, where they have appeared on the radio. Here is TV coverage of the visit from news channel Moskva 24: Interview to TV channel Rossija 24 (unfortunately, also with Russian voiceover), in which Gillan reveals that Vincent Price was also the […]

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Ischgl TV report

Coverage of the “top of the mountain” gig in Ischgl on April 30 from Austrian TV channel ORF. Watch it on their website. More video coverage from MomentumSki: Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen for the info.

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Luxury real estate, designer retrospective and… Deep Purple

Now what?! is featured in the latest podcast of German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle lifestyle show Euromaxx. It is rather bizzare to see the band covered in a show that features such things as luxury real estate on Mallorca, a Bouroullec retrospective in Paris, and eating raw cuisine. They also offer a free CD signed […]

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Hell to Pay on TV Total

Today, April 24, the band also appeared on the German TV show TV Total. They performed Hell to Pay live (and not All the Time in the World as was announced earlier). Watch it on ProSieben.de Thanks to Milan Fahrnholz and Ralle for the info.

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Morgenmagazin performance

Deep Purple performed All the Time in the World this morning, April 24, live on Geman TV show Morgenmagazin. You can view the perfomance at DasErste.de Thanks to all who reported it.

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Live on German TV

(Updated Apr 23) Deep Purple are scheduled to appear on German late night comedy show TV Total this Wednesday, April 24. We don´t have any details about the taping and if there are any tickets left but the broadcast will start at around 11 pm CET on German private TV channel Pro Sieben. This time […]

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Purple on VH1 Classic

American cable channel VH1 Classic will feature Deep Purple in one of the upcoming episodes of the Behind The Music Remastered shows. The episode is scheduled for broadcast on April 27th at 9 PM ET/PT. The blurb: Deep Purple were true rock n’ roll: outrageous, bold, daring. Despite their limited success with the American mainstream, […]

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