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Another Classic Rock magazine rehash: circa 2011 interview with Don Airey reprinted by Louder Sound:

You’ve appeared on more than 250 albums between 1976 and 2011. Which are the ones of which you are most proud?

Funnily enough, Roger Glover and I were talking about what an incredible time it was making Down To Earth [by Rainbow, 1979] in a French château in winter.

There was no material except Since You’ve Been Gone, which Ritchie Blackmore and Cozy Powell didn’t want to do. At other points we didn’t even have a singer or a bass player –but it’s a fantastic piece of work.

Read more in Louder Sound.

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