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In the press
The German edition of the Rolling Stone magazine features Made in Japan remix as the cover story of its 2025/10 issue. It also comes with an exclusive 7″ vinyl single containing Highway Star and Smoke on the Water, tagged as Live in Tokyo.
Following Bruce Springsteen and The Doors, we are releasing our third collector’s item with the October issue of ROLLING STONE: a world-exclusive vinyl single featuring two songs by Deep Purple. The two live versions of the hits ‘Highway Star’ and ‘Smoke On The Water’ are taken from the legendary double album ‘Made In Japan’, which was released in 1972 and became the blueprint for many hard rock live albums.
The 7inch single comes in a hard, carefully designed cardboard cover and on heavyweight vinyl. It is only available with the German edition of ROLLING STONE and not in record shops.
Included in the package: ROLLING STONE issue 10/2025 + exclusive Deep Purple 7″ vinyl single.
Meanwhile in the UK, issue 112 of the Fireworks magazine features Glenn Hughes as one of their cover stories.
We don’t have any further details on either publication at this time, so please feel free to post anything you know in the comments.
Thanks to Benny Holmström and Tobias Janaschke for the info.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
The huge success of the MiJ remix made even the Rolling Stone pay attention. It must have dawned on them that the people that could be bothered to buy their mag (or any music related mag…or any mag that is) in print could be the same people that purchase DP releases.
September 29th, 2025 at 09:12Let’s just hope they found someone in their ranks to get the name right. The used to ignore DP and any offsprings for
decades. Guess it was just too working class for them.
I’ve got the German Rolling Stone mag.
September 29th, 2025 at 19:25Yes, bother songs are not the “normal” Made In Japan tracks. Both are from Toyko, Budokan. A big surprise.
Also they are of course known from the boxes.
To be fair, US ROLLING STONE was less scathing to DP than to LZ. In Rock, Machine Head, Made In Japan, Burn and Come Taste The Band all got good reviews. They clobbered the first Rainbow album though.
This is the German edition of ROLLING STONE which didn’t even exist yet in the 70s. You might remember, Max, that back then we had the teenmags like BRAVO, POP and ROCKY and the more serious press in the form of MUSIK EXPRESS and SOUNDS (SOUNDS was eventually merged into MUSIK EXPRESS). In 1976 SPRINGER VERLAG also tried to introduce the MUSIK JOKER as a new monthly music magazine which boasted of a “collaboration” with US ROLLING STONE (RS would in effect license a few stories to MJ which they translated into German), but back then ROLLING STONE was strictly a US mag. MUSIK JOKER never really established itself and stopped appearing in 1980.
SOUNDS never wrote a good word about Deep Purple – not to my memory at least. MUSIK EXPRESS was initially pro-DP but became more critical over time. It was rare to see a good review of DP, Rainbow, Whitesnake, IGB or GILLAN there – though they had one journo (I think it was Detlef Kinsler) who had really taken a shine to IGB and waved their flag tirelessly with good concert reviews etc.
September 30th, 2025 at 01:13@ 3, Want a good laugh Uwe, google the U.S Rolling Stone magazine’s top 100 artists of all time. 🤣
September 30th, 2025 at 11:53Geoff Barton and Pete Makowski at Sounds were both big DP fans and covered the band in the 70s then later Rainbow White snake and Gillan ETC I remember Barton wrote a good piece on the Bolin line up! I think Europe loved DP and the US didn’t quite frankly the rolling stone was and is garbage as is the rnr hall of fame
September 30th, 2025 at 14:24@ 5, Couldn’t have been said any better Tommy. 👍🏻
September 30th, 2025 at 20:21Regarding Rolling Stones top 100 artists. So glad the Zeppelin behemoth made it to number 11 I think it was, DeeperPurps would be happy with that, surely, he he he he. The Stones made the top ten. The only non American artist. I have already forgotten most of them, I could be wrong on that. Thanks for the laugh Buttocks, although trying to consume my morning muesli was difficult while laughing so much. It was a close run thing. Cheers.
September 30th, 2025 at 22:48Whoops, I had already forgotten Uwe’s favourite band, The Beatles made it to number one. Zeppelin were at 14, not 11. It is so important to remember these things. Cheers.
September 30th, 2025 at 22:54Tommy and Buttocks, I should have clarified this, my bad: I was strictly talking about German Sounds, the music monthly in a color print magazine look,
https://img.kleinanzeigen.de/api/v1/prod-ads/images/f1/f147e29f-e9f2-4963-aa60-11182de4c565?rule=$_35.AUTO
that coincidentally shared the name with UK Sounds, the music weekly in a monochrome daily newspaper look,
https://www.afka.net/images/Magazines/1970/1970-11-07%20Sounds%2000.jpg
but the two had other than that nothing in common and no collaboration with each other.
We didn’t have music weeklies in Germany at all, only monthlies. The only music-related weekly press was teen mag BRAVO which Max slavishly bought because they had Smokie posters and also general tips on how to effectively compliment wimmin on their
ageapparent youth (Our readers are advised to not mention the war or use the term “mature“.) Whole lotta good it did too! 😆UK Sounds was of course rather Purple- and even Metal-friendly, much more so than the competition (NME and Melody Maker).
September 30th, 2025 at 23:09We use to see most of those magazines out here in no mans land back in the day. Sounds, Musik Express, Bravo etc etc. I remember them as I do Circus and Circus Raves and a few others that came later, Hit Parader, and Kerrang. Standing in a newsagent flipping through them for the latest news on our favourite rock ‘stars’. Getting hassled by the proprietor or staff ‘are you going to buy that?’. Feeling guilty I usually bought one at least, as long as it was in Australian lingo, or worse English. At least I could read it and understand what the pictures meant. Gone are those days and now we can look at almost anything online without feeling guilty, sort of. Don’t go there Uwe. Cheers.
October 1st, 2025 at 07:18Reading Bravo sure made a difference…in fact I read about Purple there for the very first time. I still keep those pages to this day! Pictures in b/w – even featuring Jon and Ian and their twin wives. There you have it.
Oh and I was pleased to learn you couldn’t get pregnant from swimming in a publuc pool when some dude…well, bless Dr. Sommer I say.
October 1st, 2025 at 08:38For the most part, I’m fine with that Rolling Stone Top 100 Artists list – it has a heavy slant toward Black artists in the Soul, Rock’n’Roll and Blues genre of the 50s and 60, as it should as they were after all the first and it is originally their music. I mean how can you not mention people like Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Sam Cooke, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin among the top twenty of a list like that? That is just being history-aware and knowing your stuff.
That Zep shows up in such lists and Purple doesn’t (or at a much lower placing) follows from the fact that the LZ musicians as individuals were and are far better known than DP members ever were. You could pick out Robert Plant visually from a mile away just by his curly blond hair – Purple never had a singer (take a deep breath now, Karin, and maybe fetch a glass of water too) who stood out as much visually. My guess is that not more than 10% of the audience at CalJam were aware that they were not seeing Ian Gillan and Roger Glover on stage or that neither IG nor DC nor GH ever sang on the original Hush which by then was only six years old. DP was always very much perceived as a group with only Ritchie and to some extent Jon Lord standing out visually, but even they weren‘t as approaching-cartoonish-archetypes as Robert, Jimmy and Bonzo.
The many line-up changes that DP went through, especially regarding a position as pivotal and important to the public as the lead singer (four different lead singers in six years, each one sounding radically different!), made the collective band image somewhat interchangeable. Just imagine this: Led Zep would have headlined the CalJam yet appeared with two unknown musicians replacing RP and JPJ? People would have been up in arms. With DP, no one really cared as long as the live performance was up to scratch. Which it of course was.
October 1st, 2025 at 15:41@11
Well, Well, Well, 😄 I have this funny notion that YOU never could get pregnant no matter who did what!
I have just one last thought for today ladies and gentlemen:
October 1st, 2025 at 18:30https://youtu.be/nvlTJrNJ5lA?si=_X6KKMLIEGgSlZEP
@ 12- yes I am aware of what the ladies do like in this world and Percy and his chest and lemons would have been rather appealing to them all, no doubt. Ian Gillan would have been swept aside. As you correctly stated Uwe, well done in warning Karin to get a glass of water handy and to also have someone standing by to pick her up off the floor when she faints. Isn’t that what all the women do, well at least in the movies they do just that. Cheers.
October 1st, 2025 at 21:37On BRAVO and such:
Max(ine) is there something deeper that you are trying to tell us or am I right in stating categorically that chances of you getting pregnant by diluted and chlorinated male semen in a public pool are not a really relevant biological risk no matter how hardy and adaptable the little tadpoles are?
Besides, it swims on the surface (if faint memory serves right), making detection easy to even the uninitiated eye.
And you shouldn‘t swallow pool water in any case.
October 1st, 2025 at 22:04@ 10, For an American youth in the 80’s me and my friends at the time couldn’t wait till the next month to go down to are local record store to pick up the newest issue of Kerrang magazine. We all thought that was the greatest magazine for the times. So much better then then any magazine America had about music in the States. It was are information to finding out about the new bands, tour’s, and everything you needed to know about music.
October 2nd, 2025 at 11:58You and me…you know we ain’t the same.
October 2nd, 2025 at 22:24You should know. I do.
See, and I really liked Hit Parader and Creem! The grass is always greener …
October 2nd, 2025 at 22:44@ 16 – yes those magazines like Kerrang out here in Australia were our only way of finding out what was going on overseas in certain popular music. The British magazines Mojo and Q were really good too a lot of the time. A little later on of course and they were often stacked full of so many good articles and the like. We had to wait a little longer to get them, but any news is good news was one way to look at it all. Cheers.
October 3rd, 2025 at 02:59@14
Water! 😂😂😂
October 3rd, 2025 at 04:18@15
Uwe, now and then I smile (very much) when our comments are aligned 😃😅
October 3rd, 2025 at 04:19@21
“Uwe, now and then I smile (very much) when our comments are aligned”
You should treasure those moments as they are few and far between.
Oh, and you may like to know that the way things are going at my grocery job I’ll probably soon have enough energy and spare time to prepare fulskager.
October 3rd, 2025 at 06:40@22
Ohh Russ, I really look forward to hear what you think about that dish!
I think I will prepare them soon to my special one 😍
They are indeed yummy 😋😋😋
October 3rd, 2025 at 07:44@17
Now Max, who are you talking to here?
Is it Uwe or me? 😄😄
(Well I’m completely confused after your latest revelation 😃)
October 3rd, 2025 at 07:46@22
“You should treasure those moments as they are few and far between.”
– they happen quite often actually! Which you would know if you read in here instead of stalking Ian’s Facebook page all the time 😄
October 3rd, 2025 at 07:48Talking to you of course. The two of you. As in you lot. And as I did before. Otherwise I’d be talking to me, myself and I. (Happens quite often but not in public. Or public pools that is.)
October 3rd, 2025 at 12:39@26
Ok! Not that I like to be pedantic 😄 but when you write: ‘you and me’ it seems, to me at least, that you’re communicating with one (1) other person…
But I’m happy to pass the torch on to Uwe, since his comment was way more intelligent than mine 😃
Now it’s not bad to be talking to yourself! It’s a sign of high intelligence 😊
https://youtu.be/9BHo76SjFYA?si=l4Ddgnm1jn7U3iIv
Otherwise this song helps improving the intelligence, I’m told ☺️
October 3rd, 2025 at 14:46https://youtu.be/AgwRYjDhK_E?si=17J89HYo8grBgL3g
And if not, it’s very good to dance to, in the kitchen, while waiting for the coffee to be ready 🤩