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Jun 11, 2024 · Fancying the idea of working in an unusual environment and also avoiding punitive UK tax laws, the band’s celebrated Mk II line-up – vocalist Ian Gillan, guitarist Richie Blackmore, keyboard player Jon Lord, bassist Roger Glover and drummer Ian Paice – booked the Montreux Casino, overlooking Lake Geneva, a picturesque yet somewhat ...
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2 days ago · The band sought out singer Ian Gillan from Episode Six, a band that had released several singles in the UK without achieving any great commercial success. Six's drummer Mick Underwood – an old comrade of Blackmore's from his days in the Outlaws – introduced the band to Gillan and bassist Roger Glover .
5 days ago · Ian Gillan is releasing a new covers album with his boyhood band The Javelins later this summer. 55 years on from the band’s formation, this March the Deep Purple singer joined forces with his original band mates Gordon Fairminer (lead guitar); Tony Tacon (rhyth guitar); Tony Whitfield (bass guitar) and Keith Roach (drums) to record the self ...
6 days ago · A couple of interesting chord changes finish the solo, and we’re back with Ian Gillan. In terrific form for the final verse, he gets bitchy on the words, spits them out with disdain while claiming to not be saying a word, his lips are sealed – before the song comes to a boomy, sudden ending.
6 days ago · Deep Purple have shared their new single 'Lazy Sod' - inspired by a journalist who called frontman Ian Gillan just that.
6 days ago · Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan revealed the inspiration behind “Lazy Sod” in a recent interview with ROCKS magazine. “Recently, a young journalist asked me how many songs I had written in my...
Jun 26, 2024 · Truly, after the completion of the tour (bar Bill Ward, who had left the band after the recording of the album), Ian returned to Deep Purple, who recorded and released “Perfect Strangers” in 1984.
