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Don Airey on stage with Deep Purple, Tornonto ON, September 2, 2017; photo © Nick Soveiko cc-by-sa

Louder Sound publishes a Prog magazine feature on Carl Sentance talking about Don Airey.

“I first met Don through a friend many years ago, when I was in Welsh heavy metal band Persian Risk. It was around the time he’d just joined Rainbow, and it was the first time I’d met someone quite famous. He was just so down-to-earth – a normal guy, a wonderful guy.

Then years later when I was in Krokus, we were doing a festival in Switzerland; Don was playing too and he took my number, and in 2006 we did our first gig together, in Austria.

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