Louder Soundprofiles Purple’s original take on Hush for their The story behind the song series, with the input from Roger Glover, of all people. The story is reprinted from the Classic Rock magazine issue #297.
Recorded at London’s Pye studio in the spring of 1968, during sessions for their debut album Shades Of Deep Purple, Hush very nearly didn’t happen at all.
The song had been earmarked for the final track-list, but nobody had thought to bring along a copy of Royal’s recording as a guide.
It was left to Simper to hastily phone his friend Rod Freeman, who’d recently been singing Hush with a band. Freeman fetched up with his guitar and dutifully wrote down the chords and lyrics.
Metaltalkreviews Glenn Hughes’ gig in Bristol on October 14, 2025:
Gushing in his love for everyone, you sense that Hughes is as genuine as they come. And it is this warmth that makes this show special. He is still making great music and looks fit enough to go for several more rounds.
Two-hour sets at his age are hugely impressive, and suddenly realising, as the band welcome Sophie Lloyd onto the stage to roar through the finale Burn, that that time has passed is a marker of how absorbed I and most of the audience were tonight.
It is just a shame that there were not more here to see it.
Chaoszine.net publishes an extensive and insightful printed word interview with Glenn Hughes. He explained a change of setlist for the recent Scandinavian shows (those were the dates rescheduled from his Purple tour), spoke about his latest solo album Chosen, his plans with the ever so fickle project called BCC, the best drummer he played with (spoiler: Paicey is not even in the top 3), and his stint with Rainbow circa 2015 that never was. Continue Reading »
Louder Sound reprints a Classic Rock feature on Whitesnake that originally appeared in their 2006 special issue Classic Rock Present 1980s.
“Oooh, hello, cheeky.” David Coverdale breaks off from our interview to greet a vision emerging from one of the many fabulous bedrooms found in what was then London’s most expensive hotel room – the penthouse suite at the Ritz Carlton in Kensington, at £1,200 a night.
The night before, the suite had hosted King Hussein of Jordan. Today, it was the no less regal Coverdale, with his Roman nose and rows of glistening teeth; the white T-shirt and the fancy waistcoat; the black riding boots; the jodhpurs; that fabulous meringue on his head. And here he was, introducing us to a woman, familiar in the same way that he was: from video, from television, from MTV.
“Jon,” he says, “I’d like you to meet the wife. She’s been lying down. She’s been lying down because she’s been shopping.”
The last time I had seen “the wife”, she’d been doing cartwheels over a car bonnet in a rightly famous Whitesnake video.
A couple of Whitesnake related historical anecdotes.
Simon Phillips tells a story how a cup of tea and biscuits with Roger Glover led to a gig with larger than life David Coverdale on the latter’s solo album WhiteSnakeContinue Reading »
In July 2025, Joe Lynn Turner was interviewed in Finland by the Southeast Wreckmetal podcast. The interview, where Joe shares some historical anectotage and his plans for the future, has now been posted on Youtube. For whatever reason, the owner(s) of the video have disabled playback on other sites, so you’ll have to watch it there. Continue Reading »
The infamously apocryphical mark of Deep Purple performs Fire in the Basement somewhere behind the freshly fallen Iron Curtain (JLT says it’s Budapest, but the hazy memory says it was the Ostrava show that was filmed for TV). Continue Reading »
Here is what (from the memory that is hazy) looks like the Abandon EPK, with Ian Gillan and Jon Lord touting the latest at the time offering from the band. Continue Reading »
Steve Morse was interviewed for the Metal Mayhem ROC podcast, reflecting on his storied 50+ year career. For the most impatient of us, the Purple bits start at around 43 minutes into more than an hour-long conversation. However, we encourage you to find some time to listen to the whole thing all the way through. It is well worth your time. Continue Reading »
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