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Glenn Hughes said his late friend David Bowie would be pissed at him for remaining closely connected to his Deep Purple roots. The pair met in the mid ‘70s and Bowie wrote most of Station To Station while living incognito in Hughes’ home. In a recent interview with Guitar Interactive (video below), Hughes recalled the experience. “I got a call from him in Feb. ’75. He asked me privately, ‘I’m gonna come on a train to L.A. – can I stay with you?’” Hughes suggested it was dangerous for Bowie to travel alone, but that’s what he did, arriving three days later. READ MORE: Glenn Hughes Says He Shoul...
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Former Deep Purple bassist Glenn Hughes has no interest in reuniting with his old bandmates on account of what he felt to be disrespectful behavior at their Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2016. In a recent interview with Guitar Interactive, Hughes directed his attention toward Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and Ian Paice, the three longest-standing members of the band. Hughes and singer David Coverdale joined Deep Purple and replaced Gillan and Glover, respectively, from 1973 to 1976, though they were also included in the 2016 induction. “I will never speak to any of them again, simply becaus...
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Ritchie Blackmore detailed his decision to step away from Deep Purple in the ‘90s and pursue the more traditional folk-rock project Blackmore’s Night, explaining that he had grown bored with the travails of playing in a world-famous hard rock band. The guitarist left Deep Purple for good in 1993; he then briefly rebooted Rainbow before starting Blackmore’s Night with singer (and now-wife) Candice Night in 1997. As Blackmore recently explained to New Jersey Stage: “The stress was from the traveling to do with rock ’n’ roll, the continual trying to come up with different augmentations of heavy r...
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Deep Purple’sMachine Head was plagued with problems from the beginning. “It’s a project that almost got destroyed before it even got started,” bassist Roger Glover says in a very matter-of-fact manner during an interview with UCR. Frank Zappa was playing a casino gig in Montreux, Switzerland when a fan in the audience fired a flare gun at the ceiling, setting the venue on fire. The casino burned to the ground. Here’s the problem: Deep Purple had booked that same room to record their sixth studio album — and in an instant, they found themselves in need of a new plan. By the time they settled in...
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Deep Purple will release a new album titled =1 on July 19. According to a press release, the title “symbolizes the idea that in a world growing ever more complex, everything eventually simplifies down to a single, unified essence. Everything equals one.” You can see the =1 track listing below. The album’s first single will be released on April 30. Deluxe editions of the album will include 13 tracks recorded live on the band’s 2022 tour and an hourlong behind-the-scenes documentary. =1 marks the 23rd album of Deep Purple’s career and their first since 2021’s Turning to Crime. Bob Ezrin produced...
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Deep Purple and Yes will team up for a North American summer tour. The trek begins on Aug. 14 in Hollywood, Florida, and concludes on Sept. 8 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday. you can see the full list of dates below. Deep Purple is in the midst of their 1 More Time tour and simultaneously celebrating 50 years of “Smoke on the Water” (52 years now, to be exact). The band recently released a super deluxe edition of its landmark album Machine Head, which includes classics such as “Smoke on the Water,” “Highway Star” and “Space Truckin’.” Yes, meanwhil...
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