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Cherry Red / Hear No Evil Records has started a GLENN HUGHES reissue program under the title The Glenn Hughes Remasters. Here we have “Feel [2CD Remastered & Expanded Edition]“, the soulful, funky album Hughes recorded in the mid-Nineties, remastered and with lots of worthy previously unreleased material. Having Survived the hedonistic, life shortening spoils of fame with hard rock...
It’s time for our usual Advanced Releases featuring some really awesome albums to come.And we start with ‘Never Too Late’ the amazing first single from CREYE (pronounced “Cry”) the new Swedish AOR super-group including guitarist Andreas Gullstrand (Grand Slam) and Alexander Strandell (Diamond Dawn, Art Nation) on vocals. The plan is to land a record deal for an eventual full...
Warner Music Japan has just reissued DEEP PURPLE‘s classic album “Burn“, the 30th Anniversary Remastered Edition appeared in 2004 with bonus tracks, for the first time on SHM-CD, and at a very affordable price.
Simply put, this is one of the best hard rock albums of all time.
Up until “Burn”, Deep Purple had been a wonderfully oiled heavy rock outfit capable of outstanding brilliance and a string of classic albums; In Rock, Machine Head and Made In Japan. With the loss of Roger Glover and vocalist Ian Gillan (both left the group) most bands would have folded or imported others of superstar status – Paul Rogers and Phil Lynott were on the shopping list.
But instead, Purple recruited two relative unknowns; Glen Hughes from the up n’ coming Trapeze, and David Coverdale, an assistant in a Yorkshire menswear shop.
The result, a cataclysmic implosion of styles as hard rock met blues and funk to produce one of the finest Rock albums of the mid Seventies. A template for a more commercial approach to rock that many, including Whitesnake and Rainbow, would later successfully follow.
