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10 июл 2026 :	DEEP PURPLE's SIMON MCBRIDE: 'We Have No Intention Of Stopping'
7 июл 2026 :	DEEP PURPLE's ROGER GLOVER: 'We're Not Gonna Have A Final Tour, A Final Gig And Make A Hoopla About It'
5 июл 2026 :	DEEP PURPLE's DON AIREY: Musicians Are 'All Hopeless At Everything. The Only Thing We Can Do Is Play Instruments'
23 июн 2026 :
22 июн 2026 :	DEEP PURPLE Is Already Talking About Making Another Studio Album In 2027: 'If You Have Ideas, Making A Record's Easy'
16 июн 2026 :	DON AIREY Confirms DEEP PURPLE Has No Plans To Stop: We 'Do What We Do Without Too Much Fanfare'
14 июн 2026 :	Watch: DEEP PURPLE Performs New Singles 'Arrogant Boy' And 'Diablo' Live For First Time
10 июн 2026 :	DEEP PURPLE's IAN GILLAN Explains Why 'Splat!' is Band's 'Heaviest' Album In Many Years
8 июн 2026 :	DEEP PURPLE Shares New Single 'Diablo' From Upcoming 'Splat!' Album
30 май 2026 :
24 май 2026 :	DEEP PURPLE Guitarist SIMON MCBRIDE Says Simple Songs Like 'Smoke On The Water' Are 'Most Challenging Ones' To Play
18 май 2026 :	DEEP PURPLE's IAN GILLAN: Everyone Thinks 'Smoke On The Water' Is 'A Heavy Metal Song. It's Not.'
13 май 2026 :	DEEP PURPLE Releases Music Video For 'Arrogant Boy', First Single From Upcoming 'Splat!' Album
6 май 2026 :	DEEP PURPLE Announces 'Heaviest' Studio Album In Many Years, 'Splat!'
30 апр 2026 :	See DEEP PURPLE's April 2026 Concert In South Korea
27 апр 2026 :
30 янв 2026 :	DEEP PURPLE To Release New Album In June: 'It's About The Metamorphosis Of Humanity Into A Metaphysical State', Says IAN GILLAN
26 дек 2025 :	DEEP PURPLE's IAN PAICE Is Working On Album With His Son JAMES: 'It's Not A Drumming Record', IAN Says
20 дек 2025 :	STEVE MORSE On His Exit From DEEP PURPLE: 'A Couple Of Guys In The Band Were Really Glad For Me To Be Gone'
25 ноя 2025 :	DEEP PURPLE – Music On Vinyl Announces Limited Edition Gold Pressing Of Greatest Hits 4LP Set
22 ноя 2025 :	DEEP PURPLE's 80-Year-Old Singer IAN GILLAN Says Band Has No Plans Of Retiring Anytime Soon: 'We're Looking A Long Way Ahead'
19 ноя 2025 :	DEEP PURPLE's IAN GILLAN Reveals He Only Has 30% Vision, And Says Retirement Is 'Not Far Off'
20 сен 2025 :	IAN GILLAN: 'If There Was A Planet That Had Five Polar Regions, It Would Be Called DEEP PURPLE'
10 сен 2025 :	ROGER GLOVER: 'There'll Probably Be' A New DEEP PURPLE 'Album Next Year'
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13 авг 2024

IAN GILLAN, Who Will Celebrate His 79th Birthday Next Week, Says There Are No Plans For DEEP PURPLE To Retire

In a new interview with Ultimate Classic Rock, DEEP PURPLE singer Ian Gillan addressed the name of the band's upcoming tour with YES, "=1 More Time". Asked how close the end of the road — and, perhaps, DEEP PUPRLE — feels to him, the singer, who will turn 79 next week, responded: "Well, you know what?! It was only recently that I heard somebody mention [the tour name]. I'd never heard that before. I'd never even spoken to anybody about it. No one asked me. That's rubbish. [Laughs] That's not the name of the tour. I think the tour is called 'Unleashed'. Not that it matters; it's a DEEP PURPLE tour and we're happy and whatever. But to answer your question: it is what it is. As soon as you start feeling unable to deliver at that level — of course, you adjust, of course, you adapt and make do the best you can. But when the energy level goes, that's time to stop because then it gets embarrassing and nobody wants that. But so far, so good. I think that's a much better title than what you just said. [Laughs]"

Last December, DEEP PURPLE drummer Ian Paice, who turned 76 in June, was asked by Zoom when he and his bandmates will eventually retire from performing live. He responded: "We have never planned a date to stop working. We are realists. The guys are getting older, and there's gonna come a point where maybe one or two of us don't want to do it anymore or [it's] not physically possible for them to do it. But we don't think about that. We're still having a great deal of fun. A lot of people still enjoy what we do, and so long as those two things stay in harmony, we'll continue.

"I don't think we'll ever know what the last gig, what the last tour is," he continued. "I think it'll come and just smack us in the face. Unless there's a definite plan, which there isn't, to do something as a final bye-bye, I just think we'll just go, 'Sorry, guys. We're finished. We can't do it anymore. It's been wonderful.' But even then, I think if we stopped touring, there's no reason why we couldn't make more records. That's the easiest thing in the world. All you've got to do is have the ideas. That's the hardest thing in the world. But physically making a record is easy."

Paice added: "Touring only works if you enjoy it. You can't just enjoy the two hours a night when you're playing. You've got to be able to deal with the whole thing. You've got to be able to deal with a ten-hour flight, a hotel which is less than perfect, transportation which goes wrong. You've gotta deal with all that. And if you can, and still enjoy it, then why would you stop something that you got into as a kid 'cause it made you happy? And if it still makes you happy, why would you stop it?"

Paice's PURPLE bandmate Roger Glover expressed a similar sentiment about the band's final tour in a June 2023 interview with Rock Hard Greece. The bassist, who turned 78 last November, said: "I don't like the idea of announcing the last show: 'And here they are. This is their last show.' I mean, the stress involved in that would be ridiculous. Where would it be? When would it be? For me, the ideal ending for PURPLE is that we just carry on until it stops. No announcement. We're not gonna announce, 'This is the last one.' People would buy tickets: 'Oh, this is the last one.' It's an exercise in making money. It's not very good. I've never liked it. I'd rather go and play and play and play and play, and one day when something happens and one of us drops dead or gets really ill or whatever, [we say], 'Well, that's that.' And leave it at that."

In 2022, DEEP PURPLE keyboardist Don Airey, who turned 76 in June, told Rolling Stone magazine that there is no concrete plan for him and his DEEP PURPLE bandmates to stop playing live shows.

"We started the farewell tour in 2017. It was due to end in 2019," he noted. "But the thing is, when you're a musician in a band, you think you're in control of it, but you're not. The business is running you.

"Of course, there was so much demand for the band to continue from the promoters and agents that we said, 'Okay, we'll do one more year.'"

Regarding when he thinks DEEP PURPLE will finally call it quits, Don said: "The words of T.S. Eliot [the greatest English-language poet of his generation] come to mind: 'This is the way the band ends. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.' I think we won't know it's the last gig. We won't have a clue that this one is going to be the last one. That's how it's going to end. It's going to be no big scenario.

"I like what Buddy Guy said. He said, 'Musicians don't retire. They drop.' You do have thoughts about being in the garden and bouncing the grandchildren on your knee, but it's part of your blood system, playing and touring. It's an addiction. I hope I keep playing for a while yet."

In July 2022, guitarist Steve Morse officially left PURPLE to care for his wife, Janine, who is battling cancer. He has since been replaced by Simon McBride.

DEEP PURPLE's latest album, "=1", came out on July 19 via earMUSIC.

Photo credit: Jim Rakete

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Удачки, чо!

Ещё одни пенсионеры-старики которые не могут успокоится. Хотя кто то да и ходит на концерты и не мало, значит это кому то интересно, наверное таким же 70 летним старикам.

14 авг 2024

Damien

smolet18-02-44, 30-, 40- и 50-летние тоже ходят, обращая внимание в первую очередь на высочайшее качество музыкального материала, а не на досужий трёп на предмет того, что состарившимся ветеранам сцены, мол, давно пора успокоиться и навсегда разъехаться по домам в инвалидных креслах.

14 авг 2024

Вашингтон Ирвинг

Мне может не нравится, что делают старички, но я могу их и не слушать, а им это явно жизнь продлевает, да и в кайф ещё, почему бы и нет?