From Deep Purple classics to solo albums and the Ian Gillan Band, Ian Gillan’s high-pitched vocals shaped generations of rock.
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From critical scorn to 40 million albums sold, discover how Uriah Heep shaped hard rock and metal and why their legacy still deserves awe and respect.
It has become a novelty act for many groups as of late to do a whole album of cover songs. Deep Purple has come full circle. Ian Gillan and Roger Glover who both were in Episode Six covered Arthur Lee's Love song "Alone Again Or." I am not surprised that the first song is "7 And 7 Is." It's a great selection of tunes on what is going to be perhaps the last official studio album for the group. Never say never. This is a great range of musical influences. Bob Dylan's "Watching The River Flow" is a welcome surprise. This is a must for Deep Purple Fans.
Ritchie Blackmore by Ross Halfin is an intimate portrait of Blackmore both on and off stage and captures the brilliance and madness of Rainbow during those years. Ross had unparalleled access for several years and the images in this book often show Ritchie as you’ve never seen him before. It finishes with shots of early Blackmore’s Night in action.
Ian Gillan, at 75 years old, has sung Smoke on the Water since 1972. Whether with Deep Purple, the Ian Gillan Band, and Black Sabbath. He has sung the encore song in the range of 2,500 times for 50 years. I guess Ozzy Osbourne would be in the same dilemma by singing Paranoid.
I am a very big Deep Purple fan. After The Rolling Stones, Deep Purple is one of the old guard rock bands still touring. There…
What a rush! Deep Purple and Rush finally nominated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Too bad Jon Lord was not around to…
You might know the song. Hush by Deep Purple was originally written by Joe South. Sadly the songwriter has gone south for good. He passed…
I never met Jon Lord, by the time I got into Deep Purple, the band was no longer together. He died just two months after…
How did Deep Purple come up with the famous Smoke on the Water riff? Ritchie Blackmore comes clean and confesses he stolen the riff from Beethoven's 5th Symphony. He claims he loosely played Beethoven's 5th backward. The rest is history as Funky Claude was running in and out pulling kids out the ground, Deep Purple ran to the bank with their biggest hit ever. Poor Beethoven never saw a royalty check. Rock historians will point out that Smoke on the Water was based on Iggy Pop's Stooges song "Loose" and borrows many melodic elements from the song released two years earlier. You have to have a keen sense of musical hearing for that one.