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UNCOVERED: 2 - The Untold Story

According to Glenn Hughes and Slayer's Kerry King, the rock and metal talent pool is drying up

Former Deep Purple man Glenn Hughes and Slayer's Kerry King can't name any new rock or metal artists that excite them

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“If we had stuck together we could have been as big as Led Zeppelin – or at the very least, Deep Purple. We had the stuff!”: The heavy rock innovators whose hard-hitting drummer was a star before John Bonham

“There was always friction – but it all worked for the creation of what we had"

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The story of Porcupine Tree's Deadwing is on the cover of the new gift-packed issue of Prog, which is on sale now

Prog 165 also features Peter Hammill, John Lodge, Cardiacs, Gazpacho, Steve Morse, Solstice, Atomic Rooster, Crown Lands, The Utopia Strong, Barry Palmer, Cate Le Bon, Amorphis and loads more...

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“We are sorry for any inconvenience”: Ritchie Blackmore’s band cancels all remaining tour dates, citing medical reasons

Earlier this year, Candice Night, one of the co-founders of Blackmore's Night and the guitarist's wife, revealed that Blackmore was battling a series of health issues

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“It’s been on stage with everyone from Deep Purple to Janet Jackson. It kind of blows me away that people ever responded in that way”: PRS reworks Mark Lettieri’s signature Fiore as super-versatile dual-humbucker model with serial/parallel switching

Available with satin or gloss finishes in a variety of colours, this is a clever refresh of Lettieri’s smash-hit do-it-all S-style

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Deep Purple announce UK tour with Mammoth

Rock's old guard collides with new on five-date tour

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Deep Purple announce 2026 UK arena tour

Deep Purple are touring UK arenas next November.

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Deep Purple rocker Ian Gillan only has '30 per cent vision' left

Deep Purple lead singer Ian Gillan has only "30 per cent vision" left, which makes work "achingly tiresome" for him.

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“After 50-plus years of an incredible journey with Deep Purple, Whitesnake, and Jimmy Page, it's time for me to hang up my platform shoes”: David Coverdale announces his retirement

After an iconic career, the Whitesnake singer is calling it a day

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“I was afraid. The idea of being unable to sing and perform was horrifying. All the things you take for granted suddenly taken away from you. It was a very troubling time in my life”: An epic interview with rock legend and Whitesnake star David Coverdale

The highs and lows of an extraordinary career

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Rock legend tells fans it’s time to ‘hang up the platform shoes and skintight jeans’

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Whitesnake’s David Coverdale announces his retirement: ‘It’s time for me to call it a day’

British rocker says it’s time to hang up his platform shoes and skintight jeans

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Fare Thee Well! Whitesnake frontman David Coverdale announces retirement

Whitesnake lead singer David Coverdale, who previously fronted Deep Purple, has announced his retirement from music after more than 50 years in the industry.

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"We've taken care of the lion's wig": Deep Purple and Whitesnake legend David Coverdale announces retirement

David Coverdale made the announcement in a video posted on social media

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"We've never done that before, and we're never doing it again!"Watch Blackmore's Night play a rare version of a Deep Purple classic

Fans in Alexandria, Virginia, have been treated to a one-off performance of one of Deep Purple's most-loved songs

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Iron Maiden, Limp Bizkit, Bring Me The Horizon, The Offspring, Deep Purple, Sabaton, Volbeat, Bad Omens and more sign up for stacked Hellfest 2026 lineup

Hellfest has announced another epic lineup for next year

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“Yes, I know, I have no respect for an instrument. To me, it’s a piece of wood until you make it into a useful tool”: Steve Morse on the time he took power tools to his guitar so he could play a Deep Purple show with a broken wrist

Upper-fret access, the DIY way... Do not try this at home. But as the former Deep Purple guitarist explains, you can't stand on ceremony when you need your guitar to play how you want it to

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“Vanilla Fudge had covered a Supremes hit and turned it into something else. That’s what the band tried to do – put their own spin on it”: The iconic cover version that launched a legendary hard rock band – but nearly turned them into one-hit-wonders

It came a year before Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath released their debut albums

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“Ritchie Blackmore was playing licks to sound check. Andy started answering him. Their conversation with guitars was enough to impress Ritchie”: Ted Turner on eating biscuits with John Lennon and how Deep Purple gave Wishbone Ash their big break

The Les Paul slinger shares the secret behind his twin-guitar sound with Andy Powell, why he quit the band not once but twice, and working as a session player on John Lennon’s Imagine

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Glenn Hughes has played with Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Black Country Communion and more - but he should never have left his first band

Glenn Hughes has spent more than 50 years in rock - and he's ready to talk about it all

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“I think every serious fan of hard rock music would love Stargazer. It’s one of those all-time epic masterpieces. It’s Ritchie Blackmore in his most experimental mode”: How guitar hero Blackmore created his magnum opus with Rainbow

The legendary track that inspired Metallica, Opeth, Dream Theater and Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson

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“That song was a game-changer for me. It led me to think, ‘Let’s go to rehab and see if I really am an alcoholic’”: How a guest spot on a ’90s banger was the salvation of a rock legend

“They took me into the vocal booth, and said, ‘Be Glenn Hughes!’"

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“I was driven to Ritchie’s house in Surrey. That was the big test. Sitting in his crazy bar, listening to his amazing demos on a Revox tape machine”: David Coverdale recalls his baptism of fire with Deep Purple

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“It reminded me of discovering Deep Purple when I was 15 years old, except updated. Everything was really pushing forwards”: Bruce Dickinson reveals the Pau Di’Anno song that convinced him to join Iron Maiden

The song that changed the course of Iron Maiden

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“Right before he died I was reminded of what I’d noticed all those years ago – that the notes he didn’t play were more important than the notes he did play”: A salute from one great bass player to another

Glenn Hughes pays tribute to the late, great Andy Fraser of Free

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