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HISTORICAL FACTS: 3 | History Defined

The new issue of Classic Rock is an AC/DC 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition

Also in this issue: Heart, Black Country Communion, Allman Brothers, Ian Hunter, Manic Street Preachers, ELP, Black Crowes, Anvil, Marcus King, Lindisfarne, Lemon Twigs, Mitch Ryder and more

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“Bowie drove me down to the audition to meet Tommy… I saw this guy with green and purple hair”: Glenn Hughes recalls meeting Tommy Bolin at his tense Deep Purple audition

Glenn Hughes might not be on the best of terms with Deep Purple, but he fondly remembers his friendship with guitarist Tommy Bolin

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"I will never speak to any of them again":Glenn Hughes slams Deep Purple for "hurtful" behaviour at Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony

"I was the only sober man there. I don't care about those guys" - Glenn Hughes

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"Seven years on from their previous album, BCC still remember what they're good at": Black Country Communion stick to a winning formula on V

V is the fifth album from the retro-styled supergroup featuring Bonham, Bonamassa, Hughes and Sherinian

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“I played House of the Rising Sun in my fifth-grade talent show. Afterward Stevie Ray Vaughan walked up and said, ‘I play guitar, too’ and our friendship began”: Meet Rocky Athas, the guitarist who went to school with SRV and inspired Brian May to tap

The Texan player recalls how Queen witnessed his trick-filled live show, jamming with Double Trouble and filling Clapton’s shoes in John Mayall’s band

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"The five of us wrote that song together in the castle’s crypt… it felt magical": Glenn Hughes' six favourite Deep Purple songs

Six personal favourites from Deep Purple's other bass player

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The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Black Country Communion, Mdou Moctar, The Picturebooks and more

Eight songs to start your week in the best possible way

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“People think of them as a heavy metal band, but they swing. It‘s not just bash bash bash”: how Deep Purple changed Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith’s life

RHCP drummer Chad Smith is a card-carrying Deep Purple fan, and here he explains why

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"One demo was of a guy playing one finger piano on Black Night": When the call went out to replace Ian Gillan in Deep Purple, only one man got an audition

In 1973, Deep Purple replaced Ian Gillan with an unknown singer. They then went on to make one of rock’s most underrated albums, Burn

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The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Black Country Communion, Orange Goblin, The Warning and more

Eight righteous rockers for elevated levels of even more righteous rockin'

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Surprise! Black Country Communion announce first album in seven years, share 2024's funkiest rock single Stay Free

Glenn Hughes and Joe Bonamassa reunite once again for V, the fifth Black Country Communion record

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“The riffs are tougher, and there are hooks! Yes, hooks!”: Black Country Communion announce new album and Joe Bonamassa’s guitar is pure fire on the supergroup’s new single, Stay Free

The supergroup featuring Joe Bonamassa, Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham and Derek Sherinian release first new music in seven years, and it's a heavy rock groover to trample you underfoot

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12 rock stars over 70 who are still delivering the goods

Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Robert Plant and more are proving that age cannot wither them

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"Bonzo was a dear friend of mine, and I think we might've been listening to a little Led Zeppelin": Deep Purple's track-by-track guide to Burn

David Coverdale, Glenn Hughes and Ian Paice reveal the secrets of Burn, Deep Purple's first album with the Mark III line-up

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"We were surrounded by these drums and guitars that The Beatles had used, but the engineers were too stoned to record us": How the stars repeatedly failed to align for Trapeze

Fronted by the future Voice Of Rock, Trapeze were soon on board the Express To Success. But then Deep Purple came calling and walked off with the golden-throated goose

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NAMM 2024: “A luxurious color that evokes the beginnings of heavy metal”: Orange Amps team up with Glenn Hughes for its first signature O Bass – and it's a dazzling purple

The Deep Purple icon has been an Orange endorsee for over a decade, with the bass making for a striking pairing with his signature purple Crush combo amp

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“I’m so fortunate not to have died. I’ve overdosed, been pistol-whipped, shot at, stabbed, run over in a car... and I’m still here”: Glenn Hughes, The Voice of Rock, has lived the lives of 10 men, and he's not finished yet

Glenn Hughes, The Voice of Rock, looks back upon a lifetime of fabulous, and sometimes terrifying, rock 'n' roll adventures

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“I called Keith Richards about doing it. His manager said: ‘Keith has already got a band. They’re called the Rolling Stones’”: the epic story of Kings Of Chaos, rock’s billion dollar supergroup

Featuring members of Guns N’ Roses, Def Leppard, Deep Purple, Alter Bridge and more, Kings Of Chaos are rock’s most high-profile covers band

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"It appeared that he had fallen down an elevator shaft, but we knew that he was murdered": the traumatic story of Deep Purple's visit to Indonesia in 1975

At the beginning of the Come Taste The Band tour, Deep Purple stopped off in Jakarta to play a show en route to Japan. It did not go well

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"We did have a couple of séances, but I didn't see any ghosts, though I know the place was haunted": Glenn Hughes on the recording of Deep Purple's Burn

Bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes on joining Deep Purple, almost joining Rainbow, leaving the Dead Daisies, the future of Black Country Communion, and 50 years of Burn

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"I’d be thinking, Behind this cocaine, either someone is dead, or someone is going to be killed": That time a Los Angeles drug dealer asked former Deep Purple vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes to look after five kilos of coke

"You’d trip over cocaine in my house there was so much of it”: for Glenn Hughes, the late '80s were a dark time

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Rock’s 20 greatest one album wonders: the bands that made one album then vanished

They came, they saw, they vanished – these are the bands who made one perfect album then split up

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“There’s not much swagger in that band.” For Glenn Hughes, joining Deep Purple wasn’t the clear-cut choice that you’d think

The ‘Voice of Rock' looks back on his decision to quit Trapeze in 1973, and why Ritchie Blackmore was “a bit eccentric”

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See Joe Bonamassa tracking a feast of blazing guitar solos for the forthcoming Black Country Communion album

Joe and a heap of vintage gear was in Sunset Sound studio with bandmates Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham and Derek Sherinian

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The Dead Daisies' merry-go-round continues as Glenn Hughes departs and John Corabi returns

The Dead Daisies will celebrate a decade in rock with a Best Of compilation, as a new bass player joins the band

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