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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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18 июн 2025 :	See DEEP PURPLE Perform At 2025 Edition of Brazil's BEST OF BLUES AND ROCK Festival
9 июн 2025 :	DEEP PURPLE's 'Rapture Of The Deep' 20th-Anniversary Remix To Be Released In August
13 май 2025 :	IAN PAICE On DEEP PURPLE's Multigenerational Appeal: 'Kids Are Still Listening To Rock Roll'
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9 фев 2025 :	DEEP PURPLE's SIMON MCBRIDE Announces New Solo Album 'Recordings: 2020-2025'
22 янв 2025 :	DEEP PURPLE's Greatest Hits Returns On Limited Edition Purple 4LP Heavyweight Vinyl In February
4 янв 2025 :	GLENN HUGHES On DEEP PURPLE's ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME Induction: 'It Was F***ing Uncomfortable'
20 ноя 2024 :	New DEEP PURPLE Guitarist SIMON MCBRIDE: 'I Try To Be Very Respectful To What's Been Done Before'
24 окт 2024 :	DEEP PURPLE Scores UK #1 With "Lazy Sod"
22 окт 2024 :	GLENN HUGHES Reflects On Joining DEEP PURPLE In 1973 - "For Me To Actually Join A Band Where They Were Going To Be Getting Another Lead Singer, It Was A Bit Weird For Me"
18 сен 2024 :	DEEP PURPLE - Fan-Filmed Video Of Entire São Paulo Show Available
3 сен 2024 :	See DEEP PURPLE's Entire Concert In Holmdel, New Jersey During '=1 More Time' Tour
26 авг 2024 :	See 4K Video Of DEEP PURPLE's Concert In Tinley Park During Summer 2024 Tour
25 авг 2024 :	IAN GILLAN Says DEEP PURPLE Is 'Already Booked To The End Of 2026'
13 авг 2024 :	IAN GILLAN, Who Will Celebrate His 79th Birthday Next Week, Says There Are No Plans For DEEP PURPLE To Retire

19 ноя 2025

DEEP PURPLE's IAN GILLAN Reveals He Only Has 30% Vision, And Says Retirement Is 'Not Far Off'

Ian Gillan says DEEP PURPLE's retirement is "not far off", partly as a result of his growing vision problems.

The 80-year-old singer, who is still actively touring with DEEP PURPLE, with more than a dozen shows in Europe and Japan already scheduled for 2026, told Uncut magazine that is unsure how much longer he and his bandmates will be able to keep performing live.

"It's one of those things," he said. "I've only got 30 percent vision. That won't get better. It makes life mysterious. The hardest thing is working on my laptop. I can't see anything on the screen unless I use my peripheral vision; I pick up a line by looking at it sideways. But you find a way. You adapt. But it's achingly tiresome. It takes a long time to do the work."

Ian went on to say that he is grateful he still has his sense of humor.

"It's hilarious this growing old thing. It's a laugh a minute," Gillan said. "Well, sometimes yes and sometimes no. I walk down the road and hear something drop off — clang, there's something else gone. Nothing's changed really apart from I can't pole vault any more. Other than that, things move a little more slowly. But nothing's changed."

Contemplating the possibility of retirement, Gillan said: "I think if I lose my energy I'm going to stop. I don't want to be an embarrassment to anyone. We're not far off that. It creeps up on you — you don't really notice."

In August 2024, Gillan was asked by SiriusXM's "Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk" if retirement was out of the vocabulary for him and his DEEP PURPLE bandmates, more than eight years after they launched "The Long Goodbye" tour. He responded: "I think it is. That was a joke, actually, because it was the promoters. And someone said, 'We've gotta sell some more tickets.' And it's the good old standby, the farewell tour. So I said, Okay, we'll call it 'goodbye' tour, but let's call it 'the long goodbye', and let's make the emphasis on the word 'long',' so it's kind of an enigmatic phrase."

He continued: "There's no intention to stop. At the moment… I spoke to my manager the other day. I've got some solo project. He said, 'You're gonna have to put 'em back,' and I'm putting them back years. We're already booked to the end of '26, in the planning stage, in the diary, with all the projects we've got for DEEP PURPLE. So, yeah, years to come, hopefully."

Earlier in August 2024, Gillan was asked by Ultimate Classic Rock how close the end of the road — and, perhaps, DEEP PUPRLE — feels to him, the singer responded: "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."

In December 2023, DEEP PURPLE drummer Ian Paice, who turned 77 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 will turn 80 later this month, 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 77 in June, told Rolling Stone magazine that there was 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 was battling cancer. He has since been replaced by Simon McBride.

DEEP PURPLE's latest album, "=1", came out in July 2024 via earMUSIC.

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20 ноя 2025

Орион

Да, старость - это уродство.

20 ноя 2025

Санчез

Капец, я сразу не узнал его.

20 ноя 2025

gogatushka

Видел их 4 дня назад. Все ещё могут!

20 ноя 2025

Family Ghost

Качественные врачи, еда, гигиена и т.д. и т.п. конечно довольно сильно изменили восприятие возраста и сейчас реально в 65-70-75 лет вести продуктивную жизнь и неплохо выглядеть (если с генами повезло и кирпич на голову не упал, конечно). Примеры этого мы видим. В той же музыке, если взять смежные с DP жанры, посмотрите на Руди Сарзо, Томми Олдриджа, Джина Симмонса. Всем сильно за 70, а ходят, говорят, играют/поют так, как раньше можно было ожидать от 50-летних.
Но уж в 80+ то точно из рок-н-ролла пора уходить, кажется. До таких высот наука и повышение качества жизни еще не добрались.

20 ноя 2025

gravitgroove

Family Ghost, можно ли вообще ставить в один ряд возможности Симмон'а и Гиллан'а? Однозначно Гиллана можно сравнить с Плантом (они оба, примерно, - одного поля ягоды), и даже Оззи на пике формы (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath и Sabotage), но Симмонс скорее говорил, чем пел, причем спокойно говорил, без повышения тона, так что в этом плане корректно ли о нем вообще упоминать, кроме остального-прочего?

20 ноя 2025

Санчез

gravitgroove, ставить можно, ибо они оба вокалисты, певцы и все такое прочее. То что кто-то умеет, кто-то не умеет петь - это не важно, и вообще роли сейчас не играет, здесь о другом шла речь... Мастейн тоже в своих треках "говорит", но л это его фишка вокала и композиторства
Род деятельности у всех троих: Singer, кто-то из них ещё и на инструментах играет и песни сочиняет, но основная роль - вокалист

20 ноя 2025

Family Ghost

gravitgroove, мой коммент вообще не касался вокала и был немного про другое.
Ну и, кстати, Симмонс из-за своего общего самоуверенного вайба и некоторых спорных историй сильно недооценен и как вокалист, и как басист. Он компетентен. И хорошо сохранил то, что имел. Его ближайший коллега по группе потерял голос.