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It’s a rocky old road sometimes

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2025/03/31

On February 17, 2025, Don Airey has appeared on Mick Wall’s podcast Season 4, Episode 9, promoting his new album Pushed to the Edge. The conversation veered wide of the release, however, and ventured into Don’s years with Gary Moore, Colosseum II, Rainbow, Ozzy, Whitesnake, etc, etc. Thanks to Anton Glaving for the heads-up.

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Godz of War

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2025/03/28

Don Airey’s new album Pushed to the Edge is now out for streaming and download, and here is another single from it — Godz of War: Physical formats (CD and 2LP) to follow on April 11, 2025. Thanks to BraveWords for the heads-up.

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Come up with something good

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2025/03/26

Yahoo carries a short interview with Don Airey, attributed to DPA (Deutsche Presse-Agentur). Like many other of his publicity appearances these days, it was done on the occasion of his upcoming solo album Pushed To The Edge. At first glance, Don Airey might not strike you as a rockstar. Even in the 1980s, when the […]

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The Last Goodbye

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2025/03/26

A second single The Last Goodbye from the upcoming Candice Night’s solo album Sea Glass has been released. This is the track with Ritchie Blackmore making a guest appearance on guitar, but lowering your expectations is in order. There are no fiery solos, and his contribution can be described as ‘some acoustic accompaniment’. Thanks to […]

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Depth and immediate identity

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2025/03/22

A couple of vintage Ian Gillan interviews on Louder Sound. First, was a 2015 contemporary chat with Geoff Barton on the occasion of another snub of Deep Purple by the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame (the band was eventually inducted next year). As such, the interview was a part of Classic Rock feature celebrating the band, […]

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Experience of how to come up with the goods

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2025/03/18

An outfit called Rock ‘n’ Roll Grad School talks to Dr. Donald Airey about his new album. If you’ve been paying attention, you may have already heard bits and pieces of what Don has to say here. Nevertheless, here it is: Thanks to Blabbermouth for the heads-up.

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Very much calling the shots

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2025/03/17

Truemetal.it has an interview with Don Airey on the occasion of his new solo album Pushed To The Edge about to be released. The conversation also veered to discuss other parts of Don’s illustrious career — just check out the anecdote of parting the Red Sea at six o’clock in the morning to meet Jerry […]

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The benefit of copious amounts of hindsight

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2025/03/15

In January 2024, Louder Sound reprinted a Classic Rock feature on Deep Purple Mark 4, which apparently slipped under our proverbial radar. It was penned by Geoff Barton for the issue 58 (October 2003) of the magazine. “I must say that the las tour for me was horrendously wrong,” Glenn Hughes says today of Deep […]

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What’s not to like?!

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2025/03/15

Simon McBride talks about touring with Deep Purple with his guitar company PRS. Sounds like a thinly veiled commercial, don’t say you haven’t been warned. Thanks to PRS Guitars Europe for the clip, and to Tobias Janaschke for bringing it to your attention.

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Rarely trod the conventional path

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2025/03/10

Louder Sound has a recent (conducted in November 2024) interview with Ian Gillan about his Gillan the band years. Big Ian seems frank, not avoiding unpleasant topics, and does not mince words much. Gillan the band’s forerunners the Ian Gillan Band had come to an end when keyboard player Colin Towns brought in a song […]

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Lavishly repackaged

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2025/03/08

Another massive (re-)release from Whitesnake — an 8-CD box set of live material, all of which has been previously released separately. Titled Access All Areas: Live, it is lavishly packaged in an imitation travel case, and is slated for release on April 25th, 2025, on Rhino. The material included was previously released in the following […]

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This chord in his head

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2025/03/05

Don Airey appeared on the Sonic Perspectives podcast, promoting his upcoming solo album. The is also a fair bit of talk about his day job and the whole career. The interview is accompanied by quite a long blurb that summarizes most of it: Any musician with a legacy as rich and expansive as Don Airey’s […]

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Glenn’s Chosen Years in UK

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2025/03/04

Glenn Hughes’ management has announced another leg of his Chosen Years tour — 8 dates in the UK in October 2025. Various presales seem to be already in progress, with general availability slated for March 7th. The powers that be want to steer your money towards the Ticketmaster, however we’ve also included some links to […]

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The last man standing

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2025/03/01

Ian Paice has appeared on the dopeYEAH Podcast, interviewed by Rob Cass, and it was a very interesting conversation over an hour long. The blurb reads: What does it take to be the backbone of one of the greatest rock bands of all time? Ian Paice, the powerhouse drummer of ‪@DeepPurpleOfficial‬ and one of the […]

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No words necessary

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2025/02/28

Speaking of newly restored classic videos, here’s Wring That Neck from the French TV show Chorus on November 14th, 1970.

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That’s frenetic!

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2025/02/28

A probably final (at least, for a while) instalment in the restored classic Gillan video series. Behold the infamously frenetic version of the rock’n’roll classic Lucille: Thanks to steve4422 for keeping us posted.

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Moon Rising

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2025/02/28

Another single from the upcoming Don Airey’s solo album Pushed To The Edge has been released. Moon Rising: The album is still due on March 28, 2025, just a couple of weeks after Simon Mcbride’s one.

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Coming home

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2025/02/28

Globe and Mail writes that Bob Ezrin has renounced his U.S. citizenship and returned home to Toronto from Nashville. The paper quotes his motivation: In the last few years, it seems as if America is split in half. The voices of a radical right have become so much louder. Conspiracy theories abound, people are armed […]

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Chosen years in South America

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2025/02/24

A Glenn Hughes’ South American tour has just been announced for November 2025. The São Paulo date on November 16th has been on sale for a while, and listed in our calendar as unconfirmed. It is confirmed now, along with 10 more shows in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia, albeit the last one with an […]

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Play a little something

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2025/02/23

In this instalment of Tales from the Tavern, Ritchie Blackmore plays a tune that he heard in ’64 or ’65. That’d be 1564-65, presumably. [Update]: the decidedly un-Motown-ish tune actually dates back to the 18th, not 16th century. It is Minuet in G major by German composer Christian Petzold (often misattributed to J.S. Bach):

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