Australian singer Jimmy Barnes is recovering from an open heart surgery. Jimmy is a member of the Purple Family most widely know for his participation in the Living Loud project. Last year Drew Thompson also introduced him to Glenn Hughes and they’ve been writing songs for Barnes’ next album together. Returning the favour, Barnes sang The Rolling Stones’ Monkey Man on Music For The Divine.
Commenting on Jimmy’s surgery, Glenn said:
Jimmy Barnes is a soul brother to me, man. I know he isn’t well at the moment but we are exchanging emails and he tells me he’s getting better and I thank the Lord for that.
I’ve no doubt that he’s going to emerge an even stronger and better person when he’s fully recovered and that he will produce a great album. I only heard about his heart condition over the news wires so it gave me quite a shock. I’ve had trouble with the old ticker as well.
We all at The Highway Star wish Jimmy a speedy recovery and all the best.
EMI has set a May 31 North American release date for Whitesnake 1987: 20 Anniversary Collector’s Edition. The edition includes CD and DVD and will be packaged in a fold out digipack with PVC slipcase with sleeve notes written by Geoff Barton of Classic Rock magazine.
Originally released in 1987, the album hit No. 8 in the U.K. charts and went on to sell a eight million copies worldwide. The album also spawned three hit singles: Still of the Night, remake of Here I Go Again and Is This Love (a.k.a. Is This A Jaguar Covered With A Scantily Clad Tawny Kitaen). The CD features the original European album (with two more tracks than its American counterpart) and four bonus tracks taken from Live…In the Shadows of the Blues. The DVD features four videos, all of which got huge airplay on MTV at the time of release; which may have been influenced by the ample charms of aforementioned Ms. Kitaen; and four live performances from the Live, In the Still of the Night concert.
01. Still of the Night
02. Bad Boys
03. Give Me All Your Love
04. Looking for Love
05. Crying in the Rain
06. Is This Love
07. Straight for the Heart
08. Don’t Turn Away
09. Children of the Night
10. Here I Go Again 87
11. You’re Gonna Break My Heart Again
12. Still of the Night (Bonus Track)
13. Here I Go Again (Bonus Track)
14. Is This Love (Bonus Track)
15. Give Me All Your Love Tonight (Bonus Track)
Bonus tracks on the CD are taken from Live in the Shadow of the Blues.
The Rainstorm Project is releasing a self titled album on March 30. The album features some very Blackmoresque guitar playing by Thomas Pihale (ex-Blind Faith) and Bob Curiano/Sir Robert of Normandy (ex-Blackmore’s Night) as the producer and bass palyer. The album also includes Blackmore’s tune Memmingen reworked with lyrics and called Tell Me Why. Check it out, they have audio samples posted. I could swear that it’s Ritchie himself is playing on the Alerik’s Daughter.
Ian Gillan gave an interview in the biggest Israeli internet site YNET. The inteview can be found here (in hebrew), but the audio part is in English. If you don’t get audio on the above page, try here or here.
Update from David Coverdale on the new Whitesnake album:
I am thrilled, erect nipples an’ all, with the new songs [for the upcoming Whitesnake album, tentatively titled ‘Good to be Bad’] and very excited to be presenting them to [the fans] later this year. SPV’s wishlist is for an October release, so we’re not having to pressure ourselves with too extreme a deadline. God willing, those days be gone. As far as touring, it appears this will also be late summer, as the ENTIRE WORLD is out there on the road thro’ the summer, doing their very best to seduce y’all. My U.S. agent told me that every single amphitheatre in every major city in the States has a ‘name’ act headlining every night of the week this season… So unless any significant touring opportunity presents itself I think we’ll concentrate on making a cracking record that will make us all proud…
I was talking with Doug [Aldrich] recently that I was thinking that some of the new songs could use some of Glenn’s [Hughes] extraordinary singing, but, just a thought at this time. I haven’t discussed anything with him. We shall have to see how that goes, so please don’t be holding me to anything. Glenn and I were in touch recently, with him telling me about his tour in Russia. He tells me there is great interest in a DEEP PURPLE Mk. 3 reunion over there.
We must add here that the wild rumours circulating on the internet regarding Glenn Hughes mentioning in Russia Mk.3 reunion as already happening this year, have been, to put it mildly, highly unsubstantiated. Frankly, I can’t see it happening in the foreseen future.
In other news, one of the new Whitesnake songs “Ready to Rock” that was released on “Live… In the Shadow of the Blues” has been posted at SPV Records web site (Real Media format). Also, the 20th anniversary reissue of the hairspray era 1987 album will feature a bonus DVD and will be released April 27, 2007. You can buy it in our shop.
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