They got music in their solar system
Undoubtedly sparked by a little scientific debate in our news comments, two scientist decided to find out for sure exactly how Smoke on the Water sounds on Mars. Their verdict? Forget trying to listen...
View ArticleBlast from the future
The classic Purple version of Hush is featured in the soundtrack for a 2006 British movie “Children of Men“. It is encouraging that in the moviemakers’ opinion the band will still be relevant in the...
View ArticleLet’s not talk about MTV…
The business model of the so-called “classic rock” FM radio is well known — milk fans of the older bands for everything they can by putting them on a nostalgia trip. This results in predictable...
View ArticleJoe Meek movie
“Telstar”, a movie about the famous 60-s music producer Joe Meek (with a Purple connection), began filming in London this month. Both Meek’s studio and Mrs. Shenton’s shop were recreated further along...
View ArticleIt’s A Beautiful Deep Purple Day
Deep Purple never made a secret of the fact that the tune for Child in Time was borrowed from the song Bombay Calling that appeared in 1969 on eponymous album by It’s A Beautiful Day. Let’s take a look...
View ArticleGood morning, Discovery!
NASA has a long standing tradition of greeting every morning the astronauts in space with music: Use of music to awaken astronauts on space missions dates back at least to the Apollo Program, when...
View ArticleDorset Wildlife auction
Despite the, ahem, dubious artistic merits of Ian Gillan’s drawing auctioned on eBay for the Dorset Wildlife Trust, it fetched a whopping £225. To put things in perspective, the Trust auctions in the...
View ArticleJLT with Scrap Metal Band
Joe Lynn Turner did a couple of dates recently with an outfit known as Scrap Metal Band. Tracy Heyder was at one of the shows and reports: On Dec. 15th, what turned out to be the ’80s rehash band known...
View Article大江戸の火消し — Firemen of Edo
From the bizzare covers department The Highway Star is proud to present you this gem: This is our very own Smoke on the Water retitled “Oedo No Hikeshi” (Firemen of Edo; Edo is the old name of Tokyo),...
View ArticleSmoke on the Leningrad Cowboys
The depths of Youtube never cease to amaze me… Smoke on the Water soviet hillbilly kitsch style. This one is performed by a band from Finland called Leningrad Cowboys: Thanks to Doug MacBeath for...
View ArticleHush in Jaguar commercial
The New Jaguar XF TV commercial in the UK has the ’68 version of Hush as its sound track: Thanks to Kurt for the info.
View ArticleNow we going to the palace…
Since our favourite rumour mistress is on extended vacations on a private exotic island, I’ll have to do the honours of spreading the gossip myself. As we’ve mentioned previously, Deep Purple plays an...
View ArticleSmoke inna reggae style
From the Yet Another Smoke On The Water Cover department, we present you Smoke On The Water done by funky Elvis and a band called Dread Zeppelin. Their specialty is Zep (and other classic rock covers)...
View ArticlePurple Rainbow
It looks like there’s a new band in the purple family. It’s called Purple Rainbows and the lineup is Joe Lynn Turner — vocals, Bobby Rondinelli — drums, Tony Carey — keyboards and Craig Goldy — guitar...
View ArticleDeep Purple on VH1 Classic
VH1 Classic in North America is airing a show called Seven Ages of Rock (which was co-produced together with the BBC). The fourth episode Never Say Die is about hasrd rock and heavy metal and features...
View ArticleThe “Glorious Road” to Deep Purple collecting
I’ve been wanting to submit this “lost treasure” for a long time, but I couldn’t find it. Well I couldn’t wait any longer. While digging through my Deep Purple Collection, I recently unearthed this one...
View ArticleMalmsteen on Purple
Yngwie ‘Unleash The Fury’ Malmsteen talks in a recent interview about Purple being his major influence: How do you write? Music is in your blood isn’t it – are you the sort of guy that has music...
View ArticleLos Gauchos De Acero
Speaking of Argentina... Ladies and gentlemen, we present you (pre)teen sensation -- Los Gauchos De Acero (The Steel Gauchos). The Gauchos are brothers Jorge: Victor Emilio (age 15) on guitar and...
View ArticleHope for the new generation
Here’s a video clip from the finals of Slovakia Got Talent TV show. The performer is a 12 year old Rony Janeček, who has been playing guitar for 2 years. Between this kid, Los Gauchos, and the Japanese...
View ArticleOlympic Studios on the chopping block
Music Week reports that EMI is seriously considering closing down it’s Olympic Studios in London and to that effect entered into a “consultation process” with the staff of 11. It is understood that the...
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