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Seventh Star remaster
Universal is releasing the 40th anniversary remaster of Black Sabbath’s Seventh Star. According to an online retailer, it will arrive on July 9, 2026 on CD and vinyl, and will contain just one bonus track: a single mix of No Stranger To Love.
Track list:
- In For The Kill (2026 Remaster)
- No Stranger To Love (2026 Remaster)
- Turn To Stone (2026 Remaster)
- Sphinx (The Guardian) (2026 Remaster)
- Seventh Star (2026 Remaster)
- Danger Zone (2026 Remaster)
- Heart Like A Wheel (2026 Remaster)
- Angry Heart (2026 Remaster)
- In Memory (2026 Remaster)
- No Stranger To Love (Single Remix) (2026 Remaster)
Thanks to Uwe for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Tony Iommi’s solo album, featuring Glenn Hughes. Oddly enough Glenn has received accolades here for his wonderful vocal on this recording. I say oddly, well some don’t think a lot of it, now let’s not get tooo negative shall we. A wonderful rock album and it contains a few good ‘ballads’ and a few ‘blues’ tracks too. Fancy a solo album being different than the behemoth mothership band albums. Thanks for posting, I will keep an eye out for this online to see what any ‘positive’ comments say about it. I need to develop a ‘positive only’ App. Could be onto something here, hmmmmmmmmm, filtering out all the ‘Glenn Hughes’ (according to one individual) nay sayers first and foremost. They are everywhere here and they never say anything good about Glenn, NEVER. Oh hang on, this is NOT a Deep Purple release, so therefore that probably doesn’t count, or does it? All Hail the Seventh Star. Play ‘Heart Like A Wheel’ really loud, it works EVERY time. Cheers.
June 2nd, 2026 at 01:42I’ll better only say nice things about THIS album after my adventures with Rising here …😈 Tarred and feathered, carried on a rail to the city limits …
There is NOTHING INHERENTLY WRONG with Seventh Star other than it came out like seven years too late. Considering that Iommi’s prior album had been the genre-bending and starkly idiosyncratic Born Again (which sounded like nothing had sounded before or after) and how Hughes had only a few years before been really adventurous and eclectic, yet modern with the Hughes Thrall debut, Seventh Star feels incredibly safe. Belt, suspenders + rubber waist band, let’s not the rock the boat. It’s like a time machine trip back to the late 70s/dawn of the 80s and Dio era Sabbath, only this time sung by Glenn.
I remember Phil Mogg of UFO giving ‘In For The Kill’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pGHvg3rz2E
a blind listening for a European rock mag and it went something like this:
“Oh, now that’s Tony Iommi – wait for the wah-wah solo! And that must be Glenn Hughes singing. It’s not a bad song, but kind of old fashioned … (Solo commences, Mogg starts cracking up.) I told you there was gonna be a wah-wah solo! Tony and Glenn are great guys, but I was expecting somehow more from them.”
I always liked Mogg’s humor and his lyrics and vocal melodies were on the better side for heavy rock too. Mind you, he was in 1986 on very AORish paths with Atomic Tommy (McClendon) and Paul Gray (ex- and later on again The Damned),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgxWZ4aoqhs
I actually saw that line-up opening for Twisted Sister at the time. Not ever having seen UFO live with either Michael Schenker or Paul Chapman, I didn’t really know what to expect, but was pleasantly surprised, they were really on fire and gave Twisted Sister a hard time.
But let’s pretend Seventh Star had been released in 1979 – it would have been a nice and (then) contemporary addition to the canon of the Purple Family.
PS: That single mix of No Stranger To Love must be what played in the background of the video at the time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEHVd1JSOk4
which was quite different to the darker album version, louder synths and chick singers (or Glenn’s own backing vocals sounding like chick singers). But it’s been released before with the Deluxe Edition of the album as remastered in 2009 which also featured an extra live CD with Ray Gillen, lamentably in more of a bootleg quality.
PPS: I recognize that Doberman Pinscher! It escaped from a suggestive Scorpions sleeve!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X27IfAgzhTY (I have to say one of my favorite Scorpions songs, great rousing chorus of the type DP mostly don’t write! 😂)
June 2nd, 2026 at 04:17Uwe once again pathetically needing another musician to back up his dislike for certain music. It doesn’t work like that Uwe, no extra brownie points there old boy. It shows again how little you know music that you do not like. Seventh Star sounds nothing like the two previous Dio era Sabbath albums. Best to leave the criticisms to folk who actually listen and know their music, don’t you think. By the way, I am glad this album annoys you, have to have a good laugh at that, again. Cheers.
June 2nd, 2026 at 07:28One of my all-time favorite albums. I love everything about it: the cover, the voice, the music, the mustache… For me, here and with John Norum, GH reaches the pinnacle of his vocal expressiveness.
June 2nd, 2026 at 09:30Ciao 🍷
Hello.
I´m with Mac and AndreA regarding this topic.
Fascinating album. Suitably different productionwise (timeless it´s own right) if you think the times in year 1986. I bought that one back in the day used, and vinyl it was of course. Always liked the song Danger Zone among others. Straight forward song, nothing new, but a great song then and still is.
And yes, Mr Norum with GH! Thanks AndreA. Face the Truth – album (1992) AND the song! Marvellous. Glenn at his best. Bought that used – again – but now it was a cd. Missing my late mate, who had the record store then, long time ago.
Furthermore, on Face the Truth -album there´s the song (remake) Still The Night, and that´s a whole another story, isn´t it. You folks there might well remember the “Phenomena” -“saga” ?
Kippis.
June 2nd, 2026 at 11:18Is good album for children to listen yes.
June 2nd, 2026 at 11:57@5 Hiza
Oh yeeeeesss!! How I love the melody of Danger Zone!! But the whole album has a wonderful atmosphere! Two years earlier, Perfect Strangers split out, and in those years I was living under a wonderful halo!! It was a unique period!!
June 2nd, 2026 at 12:02Glenn sings well on this album, just not very much like himself which ironically some people were/are relieved about. He “guests” on it.
Aber lieber Herr MacGregor, don’t get your Sabbath knickers into a twist but this album has never “annoyed” me, that is a sentiment I strictly reserve for Cozy Powell’s drumming! 😎 There is not a single album in Sabbath’s or Iommi’s canon that “annoys” me, so there! (I even prefer Cozy in Sabbath to Cozy in Rainbow or – worst of all – Cozy in Whitesnake.)
Seventh Star is an astute album, Iommi isn’t the type to deliver junk, but it is also a conservative musical statement to the point of being reactionary. Which I guess a solo album as this was initially planned as is allowed to be. The two follow-ups between Tony and Glenn took a more adventurous path (and their remasters sounded real good).
The production of Seventh Star is by the way excellent and well-balanced. I’m interested in how this remaster will sound, the 2009 one wasn’t bad in any way.
June 2nd, 2026 at 12:45I think Uwe wrote more than 100 lines but they have nothing to do with the7th star album. 🤣 🍬 🍭
June 2nd, 2026 at 12:46Here’s hoping that the remaster of the Sabbath album with the other Deep Purple singer won’t be too far behind now they have all the tapes.
June 2nd, 2026 at 13:48I am still waiting for the remaster and remix of “Born Again” from Tomi Iommi and hopefully a full live concert of that album. Cmon Tomi, make it happen.
June 2nd, 2026 at 14:02the album is good for what it is, AOR and polished and un shamefully considered a Black Sabbath. I used to dislike it back in the day and now i don’t really mind listening to a song or two. Sevenths Star is my favorite one, the rest of it just sappy crap
June 2nd, 2026 at 14:06Ah, now it gets interesting, AndreaA, reveal to me then the essence of this album which I have been missing all these years? Is it that it demands so little from its listeners? A guilty pleasure? A warm comfort blanket for Sabbath/Iommi fans?
I am in rapt attention! 😎
But I do prefer Seventh Star to John Norum’s work with Glenn which I found as aromatically rich as a piece of knäckebröd.
My all time favorite Glenn Hughes albums outside of what he did with Purple (and excluding his more pronounced later funk excursions) are Trapeze’s We Are The Music … (now that is expressive singing!)
https://youtu.be/qpdX05t9JYo
https://youtu.be/adUBCNuRnbk
and the Hughes Thrall debut (a sound both Gary Moore and John Norum tried to replicate years later but never reached):
https://youtu.be/-z_OkiSPzPI
Gary Moore and John Norum are both excellent guitarists, but what they lacked was Pat Thrall’s knack for the creation of sonic landscapes. That is what makes the Hughes Thrall sound so difficult to emulate.
June 2nd, 2026 at 15:32They say Phil Moog is the English version of Bruce Springsten lyrically in writing, I think not.
June 2nd, 2026 at 16:14#2: What’s the purpose of pretending that an album that sounds very much like 1985 came out in 1979 instead? Phil Mogg is great but since when is he an authority on Glenn Hughes matters?
June 2nd, 2026 at 16:35At last this is what I’m waiting for in vinyl. Hopefully “Born Again” would be next.
June 2nd, 2026 at 16:57@2 ‘Chick singers.’ Really? You’ll be calling women ‘birds’ next!
June 2nd, 2026 at 18:03Black Sabbath’s “Seventh Star”..pandan DP “Come Tast The Band”.A departure from the recognizable Sabbath sound,I like it album
June 2nd, 2026 at 19:33I like it better than Black Sabbath’s second controversial album “Slaves and Masters “..sorry,my mistake…” Born Again” 🙂
It shows again how little you know music that you do not like.
What a bunch of Tasmanian bollocks! I go out of my way exploring music I don’t like (sometimes I even change my mind after a while) and have spent great parts of my life listening to U2 and Coldplay releases knowing very well I would likely not dig what I would hear (I was mostly right). My musical curiosity doesn’t necessitate liking something to explore it.
“Music that I do not like”, huh? I like everything the Sabs have done with Ozzy (even though he was a limited singer), am ok with the Dio era(s), adore Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Sabotage & Born Again + even think that the post-Born Again releases are mostly alright, if not strictly compelling. There isn’t a single Sabbath album I don’t own and I even have all the Iommi solo projects plus some of Geezer’s stuff. I like heavy music, but that doesn’t mean that I think that every album of the genre is automatically Sgt. Pepper!
June 2nd, 2026 at 20:02RB, what’s wrong with the term “chicks”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pojL_35QlSI
Does The Boys Are Back In Town now need to be rewritten?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta3YkTdIQqE (At this point the drugs were visibly getting to Phil, that cocaine cold sweat and his off-key performance …🤐)
You know that chick that used to dance a lot
Every night, she’d be on the floor, shakin’ what she’d got
Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot
I mean, she was steamin’
And that time over at Johnny’s place
Well, this chick got up and she slapped Johnny’s face
Man, we just fell about the place
If that chick don’t wanna know, forget her!
PS: Lest we forget, Phil referred to the men in that song as either “boys” or “cats”.
June 2nd, 2026 at 22:22While of the subject of Glenn Hughes guesting on Seventh Star, it may pay to revisit a long forgotten album called “Phenomena” released in ’85. This was a theme project by Tom Galley and features his brother Mel, GH, Cozy Powell and others. Hughes sings lead on all tracks and while it may seem a bit 80’s style production, for GH fans it’s worth a listen.
June 2nd, 2026 at 22:26And yes, Seventh Star is indeed a fine album, probably suited more to be a Tony Iommi solo release.
Ivica, I would say that Born Again is pretty much the antithesis to Slaves & Masters, though curiously I like both. 😂 But in its attempt to please, Seventh Star is perhaps closer to Slaves & Masters than most people would want to admit. Born Again was certainly an album irreverent to the idea of pleasing a majority of people. Maybe that is what appealed to me, I thought it was a brave artistic statement, bowing neither to Sabbath nor to IG fans.
June 3rd, 2026 at 00:27I like the album, but I already have the 2-cd Deluxe edition that has the bonus track on disc one and the 2nd disc is live with Ray Gillen on vocals, so I don’t know why I’d bother to get this album. If you really like it get the Deluxe 2 cd version, it’s much better.
June 3rd, 2026 at 02:13Excellent album (his first) by my favorite Sabbath man….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw4eeEJf-gQ
June 3rd, 2026 at 06:28Hello.
Al @11. I believe that the new version (let´s call it that) of Born Again is coming out in the near future. There´s the Deluxe Expanded Edition of the original album (2011) with live concert recording from Reading Festival (from BBC broadcast) 27th of August, 1983. And with the edition there´s even one outtake from the original sessions, too: The Fallen !
Mark @21. You´re quite right, just like I previously mentioned (@5).
Kippis.
June 3rd, 2026 at 07:54Sorry Hiza @25 – but I must have missed your mention of “Phenomena”. Anyway it was worth dusting off the LP and giving it a spin today.
June 3rd, 2026 at 09:27@22
Uwe
It wasn’t the most casual combination, created after a binge. The way BS and Gillan sang and wrote lyrics differed in terms of aesthetics and playing. Lack of chemistry..Zero the Hero” is probably the most famous song on this album and one of the best along with the title track. Some of his screams on Trashed or Born Again are unforgettable.
I much prefer the collaboration of Big Ian and Tony on the WhoCares project which spawned two great songs “Out of My Mind” written together by Gillan and Tony, the second guitar is played by Toni’s then Finnish son-in-law Mikko Lindström, Jon on keyboards. and especially the song “Holy Water” written by Steve Morris together with Gillan. Incredible song.. Armenian duduk in the intro, great arrangement in the vein of Iron Maiden, a chorus that causes tingling, Big Ian sings with ease, emotional, Toni together with Steve Morris Michael Lee Jacksons are great, also Nicko McBrain on drums. Part ..a combination of 40% Deep Purple 30% Black Sabbath 30% Iron Maiden.Yes I love this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au1fvuta_o8
It is also the last release on which Jon Lord ever played. He passed away three days after the release of the album WhoCares. I wish “Holy Water” was on Deep Purple’s set list in memory of Maestro Jon
June 3rd, 2026 at 10:18I notice that there is quite some fans for what I call “AOR-Hughes” here. What he did with the Europe musicians on From Now On …, with John Norum or Robin George or Geoff Downes, the Phenomena stuff (which sounded like drawing-by-numbers AOR to me and very stiff though the involved musicians were high quality) and last but not least even with Iommi on Seventh Star all falls into that category.
He toyed with the idea of becoming an AOR artist in the 80s and early 90s, but aborted that attempt after a while, saying it just wasn’t his type of music. I think that the emergence of Grunge had an influence on Glenn too.
June 3rd, 2026 at 10:40No worries, I’ll compare both the last and the new remaster in due time here and report my findings. The 2025 remaster of Eternal Idol was excellent, it seems like Tony is putting some care and effort into these reissues.
A Born Again reissue would of course also contain a new stereo mix due to the masters having been meanwhile retrieved – those were still lost when the album underwent the last remaster.
June 3rd, 2026 at 10:47” Phenmena” the album Glenn sang on to me is Glenn’s finest vocals recorded.
June 3rd, 2026 at 12:03I still remember when this first came out. Back then, any album where Glenn appeared on just a track or two was regarded as if he had just done a whole new album. And when he stuck around for a whole album it was regarded as nothing short of a miracle!
June 3rd, 2026 at 12:37Uwe Hornung says: You know that chick that used to dance a lot
Every night, she’d be on the floor, shakin’ what she’d got
Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot
I mean, she was steamin’
And that time over at Johnny’s place
June 3rd, 2026 at 15:28Well, this chick got up and she slapped Johnny’s face
Man, we just fell about the place
If that chick don’t wanna know, forget her! 😄😅😂🤣 !
I’m just listening to the 2010 Deluxe Expanded Edition remaster (courtesy of Andy Pearce and Matt Wortham) – it ain’t exactly great, a pretty murky, echo-y and indistinct affair, it could have been done better and judging from the improvement on last year’s Eternal Idol remaster I’m confident they’ll achieve just that. Iommi seems to have an ear for these things. A little more clarity would serve the album well.
June 3rd, 2026 at 15:47I love this album as a Tony Iommi Solo album with finest Glenn Hughes vocals.
The Remix is very different and features Gordon Copley instead of Dave Spitz on bassguitar.
It was available in 1986 on a promo-12″ and on video.
But on CD the Remix was already released in 2010.
I wonder why the didn’t release the uncut Version of “Heart Like A Wheel”. In old interview Tony and Glenn stated that the ssong last about 15 Minutes full of improvisation.
June 3rd, 2026 at 19:29@34 Yes indeed, that would be awesome! Heart Like a Wheel is one of Iommis finest performances solo-wise and one of the first tracks I’d play to someone who is in search of the strong jazz influences in Iommis playing
June 3rd, 2026 at 21:05Perhaps there were issues with Dave Spitz’ bass playing even then? I’ve read that Jeff Glixman who produced the follow-up thought that Dave’s finger playing didn’t cut it in the studio, he wanted a pick player, hence the entrance of Bob Daisley who played (at the time of the release: uncredited) on the album and even had an offer to join the Sabs, but was committed to Gary Moore at the time. Bob Daisley as a bassist was always a safe bet for any producer, he played with utmost control and knew how to get his sound on tape. Dave Spitz just didn’t have that type of recording experience.
PS: I’ve just listened to the Rock Candy remaster of John Norum’s Face The Truth from 2020 courtesy of Jon Astley – that remaster is much better than Seventh Star, it really jumps at you (Rock Candy are generally pretty good at remastering 80s and 90s rock). Actually, I herewith atone, AndreA & Hiza take notice: That album is much better than my memory of it was! Peter Baltes, otherwise known for being balls to the wall with Accept, does a mighty fine job playing bass on all tracks though I would have obviopusly liked to have keard Glenn play bass too. I always feel short-changed when he just sings.
June 3rd, 2026 at 22:40I don’t know if Seventh Star needs a remix does it? It sounds nice and raw to me, always has and that is probably what it should be, all things considered. Anyway, I will not be buying another version, I purchased the vinyl when it was released and then the cd. I will have a curiosity listen online no doubt, as I often do to remixes. Cheers.
June 3rd, 2026 at 23:28#14: An English version of Springsteen??? Isn’t one Springsteen terrible enough???
June 3rd, 2026 at 23:51# 17 RB, ever hear of the Dixie Chicks? Who now call themselves “The Chicks”? They obviously don’t have a problem with that term. Stick to the music & lighten up with the “woke” crapola.
June 4th, 2026 at 01:04Uwe, I think you need to buy new stereo speakers because I listened to disc 1 on my home theatre last night, and it sounded crystal clear and perfectly mixed, nothing murky about it.
June 4th, 2026 at 01:52Uwe Hornung @36
June 4th, 2026 at 11:27👌🏼🍷
@ nearly every other post is Uwe
Uwe, every discussion eventually becomes a documentary about Uwe. Uwe’s prolix lecture.
Someone mentions Seventh Star and twenty minutes later we’re covering Coldplay, grunge, Dave Spitz, Jon Astley, Phil Mogg, Peter Baltes and the socio-economic conditions of AOR-Hughes fans.
It’s genuinely unimpressive.
Most people just listen to the album.
June 4th, 2026 at 11:33Well…
I enjoy everybody’s posts in here!
Yeah, Uwe posts a lot, but he is indeed very interesting 😊
Yes, I thought that too before he gave me the only drumstick he had 😄
Actually, he is one of those who maintains a nice atmosphere in here 🥰
June 4th, 2026 at 11:47Strangely, I totally “get” both Uwe AND Karin! 🤗
Re: Seventh Star
When it came out I was 14 and we kids were delighted because it had a “slow dancing” tune, you know, for dancing with girls haha. Plus, we thought (and I still do) “No Stranger” was amazing 🙂
The LP itself was always on the discount bins of record shops, almost nobody bought it…
Full of drama (Jeff Fenholt first, then Glenn, roadie puches Glenn in the throat, Ray is in for the tour, Ray is out….etc etc etc)
Best regards, J.-
June 4th, 2026 at 14:07Rubber, Karin sees music in colors, I see it in roots and branches!
When Peter Frame’s “Rock Family Trees” came out around the end of the 70s,
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it utterly fascinated me. I remember that the advertisement text asked the question what the connection between Deep Purple and the Eagles was (answer: no, not that Jon really liked them, but that both Joe Walsh and Tommy Bolin had played in the James Gang). I think that triggered/reinforced the budding hobby musicologist/rock historian in me. Or you can say: Uwe never grew out of Trivial Pursuit (board game).
“Just listen to the album” is not a school of enjoyment I adhere to. If that were the case, I could sell my CDs (by now likely approaching 10.ooo, I never counted) and create a very long Spotify list. But that is only a part of the magic of music for me, when I listen to a song I like to know who wrote it, played it, produced it and what else everyone did.
I know, many people couldn’t care less and that is perfectly ok. I can newly encounter and enjoy music initially without that background information too, but in a second step my curiosity is piqued for the environment the music was created in. None doubt an anal affliction, yes.
And what better target could there be for someone into roots & branches than the Deep Purple Family Universe? There must be a reason why I am here and not in a Led Zeppelin forum, and it can’t be solely John Bonham’s drumming! 🤣
None of that makes my music taste superior to anybody else’s of course. And I’m always happy to hear why people like something that leaves me rather cold. I find the exchange of opposing views refreshing, I’m not much the echo chamber type.
Now you might find that all unimpressive but then impressing you of all people with the fact that I also listen to U2 and Coldplay strikes me as a rather fruitless endeavor! 🤗 So just keep being annoyed, if it makes you feel better.
June 4th, 2026 at 14:47@44
😳 woah! Uwe Hornung, do you in all honesty tell us that you listen to U2?
Hmmm 🤔 of course I might be wrong, but I remember some U2 bashing in here and I seem to remember you expressed dislike to Bono and co.
When I was very young I had boyfriend who gave me ‘the Joshua tree’ as a present. I liked it… I don’t anymore, but young and very easy to empress I liked it.
And no matter what: please keep on gracing us with all your comments and opinions (no! Not because of the drumstick… I meant the same before IGB grew on me 😁)
June 4th, 2026 at 15:37Uwe, I don’t think anyone is puzzled by your roots-and-branches approach. Most people on this site know the Purple family tree backwards, have read the books, bought the box sets and spent decades following the connections.
The difference is that most of us treat that knowledge as background to the music, whereas you often seem to treat the music as evidence for a theory.
And despite saying everyone’s taste is equal, you have a habit of explaining why people enjoy things rather than simply accepting that they do. If someone loves Rising, Seventh Star or Cozy Powell, there is usually a lengthy explanation for why they are hearing it wrong, missing something, responding to comfort, nostalgia or simplicity rather than just liking the record.
That’s why people push back. Not because you know too much, but because you often write as if your way of listening is the destination and everyone else’s is merely a stop on the journey.
The funny thing is that many of the people you’re explaining these things to have been listening to the same albums for fifty years and reached different conclusions perfectly consciously.
June 4th, 2026 at 15:44Uwe
Are you a Gemini?
June 4th, 2026 at 16:43No Stranger To Love is a great ballad, Faraway J, no argument from me. But it’s not testing borders like Born Again (the song) did, also a ballad. I’m with you though that No Stranger To Love is more appropriate in settings where you have your arms around a girl’s waist! 🤗 Or take the Doberman out for a walk, whatever your preferences may be.
Sidroman: I have four different stereo systems at home and listen to music on them all! My general experience has been that if an album sounds good, it sounds good on all of them, their different characteristics aside. In my case, btw, all of them are set up bass-heavy. 🤗😂
Frater: Not just Phil Mogg, but also Phil Lynott! Comparisons of Phil Lynott’s lyrical prowess to Springsteen’s first came up in the mid 70s, circa Jailbreak and Born To Run. I remember an NME scribe raising the point and Phil replying modestly: “I think he (= Springsteen) is great, I take it as a compliment.”
With Thin Lizzy I have really come round over the decades. For a long time, my judgement of them was marred by (0nly) having seen their last gig together ever. At the Monsters of Rock in Nürnberg 1983, with a dejected Brian Robertson (also there with Motörhead) watching from the stage rafters at the side as Phil and Scott (both raging heroin addicts by then) pained themselves through a lackluster set aided by Wharton, Downey & Sykes (I think that was where DC and the later blond Über-snake first met).
But these days, I’m really enjoying their oeuvre, never mind how Live & Dangerous is a studio fabrication or that their twin guitar harmonies are mostly pedestrian in comparison to what Wishbone Ash achieved years before them. Edith says that Phil Lynott’s voice is to her one of the most pleasant ones in hard rock alongside Paul Rodgers’, Ian Hunter’s and Phil Mogg’s. She is not really a fan of Ian Gillan, Robert Plant, Ozzy, Rob Halford, David Byron, Glenn Hughes and Graham Bonnet, in her view (she is a soprano) men shouldn’t sing too high (unless they are called Art Garfunkel!). I think she is broadly concerned about testicle preservation and that is a commendable conservatory agenda!
June 4th, 2026 at 17:14@ 1
June 4th, 2026 at 19:59I was going to say something positive about Glenn but
I don’t tell lies, sorry. Ha ha, no I’m not.
“The difference is that most of us treat that knowledge as background to the music, whereas you often seem to treat the music as evidence for a theory.”
Yes, but isn’t empiric validation a vital part of any type of research? Otherwise you are just making things up.
“And despite saying everyone’s taste is equal, you have a habit of explaining why people enjoy things rather than simply accepting that they do.”
I find the inability to explain why somebody likes or dislikes something intellectually lame. I can mostly explain why I dislike something or like it, I can for instance explain/rationalize why I like Little Ian’s intricate bass drum work or why I think Tilda Swinton is hot (and Kylie Jenner isn’t). That doesn’t mean other people have to share my views. And if someone tells me “ But I really like Cozy’s brutish drumming, the way he always chases ahead of the beat (his big dif to Bonham), the fact that some of his breaks have you worried whether he will reach the one of the next best in time, and last not least his Duracell Bunny approach to bass drum work!!!” then that is perfectly fine for me.
But if you prefer for me to say “I think Rising is crap and overrated, though I can’t say why.” and find that more conducive to a discussion, then I can in the future restrict myself to one-liners like “The album is crap.”, welcome to the brave new social media world where everyone is highly opinionated and snappy, yet no one discusses things anymore or tries to investigate other viewpoints.
RV: What a question, of course I’m Scorpio, all Germans are, no matter when they have been born! I think astrology is humbug, but whenever I say that, its fervent adherents sigh and reply: “No wonder you say that, you’re a Scorpio!” Scorpios demand evidence.
Karin: I’ve never liked U2. I think they are pretentious, messianic and their music lacks riffs and impressive solos. Every second of the Mk III song Burn is a compelling reason to dislike U2! 😂 That said, U2 are also hugely influential, just not for me. But every new U2 release gets five to ten spins from me before it is filed in my collection for posterity.
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June 4th, 2026 at 21:17Well, at least you’re honest about it, DaveDP! 😂😂😂
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eu4b54XamaY
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ihxXpSjfJlM
June 4th, 2026 at 23:31I remember a schoolfriend of mine when I met him crying in the hallway one morning. I asked him what had happened, and he replied, “Phil Lynott died…” Forty years later, memories are hazy, and today I wonder if Phil’s mother had warned him in person (there were no smartphones)..
June 5th, 2026 at 05:00I’ve always loved Thin Lizzy, especially after the Eric Bell era; I’ve always found them original. I like Live & Dangerous, but also Live Life, where you can hear Lynott suffering. One of my unfulfilled dreams is to see his statue in Dublin.
The 2nd new single from Splat!
June 5th, 2026 at 07:46https://youtu.be/w8Cdp3IR4Yk?is=Qsj7yOjfb9sLsyHn
💜💜💜💜💜
@49
Uwe, this is exactly what I mean.
Someone mentions Seventh Star and before long we’re touring your stereo systems, Phil Lynott, Bruce Springsteen, Monsters of Rock 1983, Wishbone Ash, Edith’s vocal preferences and the preservation of male anatomy.
And that’s the point. You say all tastes are equal, but almost every post eventually circles back to explaining why your criteria for judging music are the important ones.
Most of us already know the history, the family trees, the personnel changes, the producers, the side projects and the influences. We’ve simply arrived at different conclusions.
Not because we haven’t heard enough, not because we haven’t analysed enough, and not because we need educating.
Just because we like different things.
Sometimes No Stranger To Love is just a great song, not the opening chapter of a comparative study on artistic risk-taking in post-Born Again heavy rock.
June 5th, 2026 at 08:01Diablo with keith urban
https://www.rockfm.fm/al-dia/noticias/estreno-exclusiva-asi-suena-deep-purple-segundo-adelanto-proximo-disco-splat-20260604_70383.html?shem=rimspwouoe,#google_vignette
June 5th, 2026 at 08:54@51
“Karin: I’ve never liked U2. I think they are pretentious, messianic and their music lacks riffs and impressive solos.”
– I agree wholeheartedly Uwe!
However, this little cutie is nice:
https://youtu.be/co6WMzDOh1o?is=kXyVuF5xiydCrWvV
Mostly because of his voice though, it makes very nice colours in my head 😃
One could argue: it’s the same voice as he always uses, isn’t it?
And yes it is, but well, cannot explain it. But somehow he sounds more sincere…
The Edge however is very nice at the guitar 😊
June 5th, 2026 at 12:47YouTube link for “Diablo”:
https://youtu.be/AkRpXFz6CkQ?si=djq0gr4zM_lphvHw
Can’t wait for the rest of the album.
June 5th, 2026 at 13:11See you this August in New York (and possibly Boston), and in November in London.
Well, let‘s see how Nicole‘s former hubby will help out! Very interesting, thanks Attila!
So, lieber Rubber, what you are essentially saying is that we communicate here like they do at what was formerly Twitter or Facebook or in the comments section of a YouTube video. No context, no history, no drawing of parallels, no going out on a limb, nothing personal (except when attacking others of course), the exact reason why any form of deeper discussion has gone to hell in social media.
If that were the case here, I‘d be immediately gone, I take no satisfaction from reading likes “Great album!“ or dislikes “Crap album!”, I’m intrigued by why people like or dislike something. And I’m also curious about what they are, hence I use my regular name here while your parents likely did not christen you Rubber and were not named Haddock themselves, I presume.
Let’s agree to disagree, I’ll contribute to the discussion of DP Family music as I do and you continue to have your occasional volcanic eruptions at that or just skip over what I write. Too bad we don’t have a thumbs down 👎 function here for you to grace my posts with, but I’ll keep it in my thoughts how I unintentionally rubber you the wrong way. C’est la vie, bear it like a man.
June 5th, 2026 at 13:51@55
Rubber, I get nervous tics when people don’t get along in here (or in the world)
😊
Sadly I haven’t been communicating a lot with you, but you seem to be a nice person 😊
So if I may offer an advice? Jump over those posts that irritates you ☺️ then your inner peace is safe 🙏🏼
June 5th, 2026 at 14:56Karin, “Beautiful Day” is a wonderful song by U2. It also became the blueprint for what Coldplay would do years later on a series of albums, reaping endless commercial rewards.
You are aware that the song at 01:53 contains a nod to A-ha’s classic
https://youtu.be/a3ir9HC9vYg ?
Bono has even admitted as much. A-ha’s influence on contemporary pop is often not realized.
I once met an Irish cab driver who was full of praise for Bono and regular gave him rides, saying that he was totally down to earth, lived in the same neighborhood in Dublin and not behind security walls either plus always tipped real well!
June 5th, 2026 at 15:16@61
Thank you Uwe 🙏🏼
I had no idea about that nod.. but then again I have never listened that much to A-ha! (Yes, because all the other wimmin listened to them, so I was completely opposite, and listened to Purple even louder 😄)
I knew that about Bono. The former boyfriend I told about, lived and worked in England, and told me Bono was much appreciated there for being friendly and not stuck up 😊
June 5th, 2026 at 17:25at 25 at Hiza
I heard the remastering of 2011, and I am hoping that is going to be a proper remix of that album at some point with the relocation of master tapes. do you have any recent links and news about it? I have not seen or heard anything
June 5th, 2026 at 19:41Whenever U2 are mention I have to think of that German radio DJ who – after Where The Streets Have No Names was over (thankfully) said with a dry voice: ‘Glad I am no cap driver there…’
You summed it up nicely, Uwe. Pretentious indeed.
June 5th, 2026 at 20:16As a long time reader (and occasional contributor) of these posts, I like to hear a person’s reasons for a positive or negative review of an album – it may just change my mind.
June 5th, 2026 at 22:03I understand Rubber Haddock’s frustration at reading about too much personal detail by others. Maybe this forum should remember to stick to DP and related stuff. But we need to respect the views of all participants – no one is right or wrong in music. If you don’t like a post, then skip over it, no need to waste your energy attacking the author.
I do see where Rubber is coming from and I agree in part to what he is saying. That ANALytical take on things in an attacking style from Uwe at times, challenging people to highlight certain aspects in something they have already stated etc. Too serious at times. I am no angel, just simply stating what I see occasionally. I do avoid certain comments simply because they either have a ‘toxic’ style to them or are so often repeated again and again, my take on it. The fact that Uwe has now taken it ‘down’ to a ‘twitter, YouTube or Facebook’ comparison says a lot. From one ‘extreme’ to the other, why? Surely there is a middle path there, isn’t there? Karin, don’t feel uneasy, why should everyone ‘pretend’ to ‘get along’. If something or someone annoys any of us, well we may say it, as long as it is within a certain context. Are we starting to ‘bash’ Uwe up, no not at all. I am sure he can take any ‘bashing’, a word I despise and do not normally use. Everyone is entitled to their comment though, within reason. Cheers.
June 5th, 2026 at 23:03Hello.
Al @63. Thanks for asking. I´m just like any other enthusiast here when we speak about the “news” or links of the Net. If one just could remember all of them afterwards..!
Here´s a couple. I couldn´t find any so recent, but I think there might be some important pieces of information. Check those out?
https://blabbermouth.net/news/tony-iommi-urges-black-sabbath-fans-to-be-patient-for-born-again-remix
https://www.loudersound.com/news/ian-gillan-glad-tony-iommi-remixing-black-sabbath-born-again-2025
https://blabbermouth.net/news/tony-iommi-still-wants-to-remix-black-sabbaths-born-again-there-are-some-great-songs-on-that-album
https://www.black-sabbath.com/2021/07/born-again-master-tapes-found/
DP is coming to Finland next week. That´s quite something. Hoping in having a chance to participate somehow. Haven´t seen Simon on stage yet.
…and very wise words there earlier from Rubber and Mac. Without forgetting our Danish Lady. We all do have an opinion. And taste. And maybe our German Author should publish his knowledge and experiences in this music world somehow for the future fans to explore. Or has Mr. Popoff among others already told it all? Maybe, maybe not : )
Have a nice weekend everyone. It´s raining now, but it´s just ok. The nature needs it.
Kippis.
June 6th, 2026 at 09:27@66
Well… call me one-dimension all you want, but I would really like some peace!
And where to start than in one’s own home and so-me fora etc?
I know I also can have a harsh answer now and then, however I do find it ok to establish borders 😉 but I really like for everyone to get along.
And I certainly do not agree with every single person I have met, but I exercise my ability to at least try to understand other people, why they act as they do, what have bothered them since they speak as they do and so on.
And no need to pretend anything. But being a bit softer and more relaxed, well
spacious towards others possibly can’t start WW lll?
That’s why I wrote that!
Have a lovely weekend everybody, looking forward to the new video tomorrow evening 😃
June 6th, 2026 at 12:06I’m a small talk guy, I’m genuinely interested in what people like, do, where they come from, what their experiences are. Anonymity has no value for me. The solitary information “I (don’t) like this album!” means little to me. Flies like shit too. So what. It only gets interesting when people add “because …” and I’m always prepared to listen.
I’m also a history buff, I like to see everything in a greater context. In my view, political and cultural discussions in social media suffer greatly because a majority of people have no friggin’ idea of history. It baffles me how oblivious to it most people are. With no historical background, any attempt to understand our current – complex – world is pretty much doomed to failure.
I realize that my postings rub Rubber the wrong way big time, they are not intended that way. In my life I have encountered a few people who feel like that about things I do or say, you can’t please everyone all the time. Now if he vented his frustration about me by entering into fruitful discussions about topics, the dialogue between us might be a bit more constructive and make Karin less nervous. Instead he has a tendency to get personal which I believe I never do – except in jest with a good-for-nothing like MacGregor who has advanced to being my favorite Tasmanian convict-offspring, never mind his opinions on certain types of music. Yes, I do enjoy playing the devil’s advocate and arguing my case, kicking sacred objects like Rising off their pedestal/tower of stone until “there is blood on the sand” 😂, but I try to avoid character assassination of people I disagree with or who disagree with me.
And though Rubber cannot believe it: My contrarian nature finds nothing more disconcerting than widespread agreement with my positions. 🤗 I like to explain myself, but there is no hidden agenda to have Rainbow’s Rising replaced by Trapeze’s We Are The Music, You’re Just The Band as far as collective worship by the congregation of faithful here goes. I’m fine with being a little odd. You guys can keep on revering Stargazer, but I’ll sometimes poke you a little about it, ok?
June 6th, 2026 at 15:33#69: That contrarian nature you mention, preferring to be the odd man out and shying away from team sports as a result, can lead to lively discussion but I think it ultimately needs validation. Ironically, to be accepted as part of a team. To quote IG, any human being needs two things to be happy, a sense of purpose and a sense of belonging. Admitting to having a contrarian nature is the first step. The second to realise it could run the risk of overshadowing the topic at hand, if it needs too much validation. I enjoy your posts and this forum needs your input. Adding a greater musical context is fine, to a degree, but many of the threads here quickly run wildly off topic, with the discussion ending up being more about the authors themselves than the topic at hand. As an example, I am glad Karin has a dog, but maybe those discussions can be kept privately for those who come here to read about DP?
June 7th, 2026 at 05:49@70
“As an example, I am glad Karin has a dog, but maybe those discussions can be kept privately for those who come here to read about DP?”
– 🤣🤣 well so am I Daniel!
To my defence I often answer questions about Anton, but you are of course right!
By this I swear I will not mention Anton, my new drumstick, or anything that hasn’t direct connection with Purple….
Ehh, but what do I do if I’m asked something?
Thank you 👍🏼
P.S. I jump over a lot of posts that don’t interest me one bit! But maybe that’s just me…..
June 7th, 2026 at 09:44@ 70- That is my fault Daniel, about Anton the doggie or doglet as Karin calls him. I have ventured off course too much here at times. I guess I just like to look at life from a different ‘animals’ perspective. Meaning not humans, cue the Far Side cartoons by Gary Larson or even Shaun the Sheep the British animated comedy series. Sorry, I am doing it again, he he he. Cheers.
June 7th, 2026 at 09:56Daniel, not a bad analysis. ☝️🥸 I’m quietly supportive of “the team” (whatever it is) and wish it well, BUT PLEASE DON’T FORCE ME TO BE A MEMBER. 😎 I have dread of being lost whenever I “belong”.
June 7th, 2026 at 15:08@51.. im Scorpio by birth date Uwe, And my Grand parents were from Germany, so i guess you were right about all Germans are Scorpios.😁
June 8th, 2026 at 16:49We’re unpleasant people, I know! 🤣
June 9th, 2026 at 14:16