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Gillan's Future Shock pays sonic tribute to their singer's illustrious Purple past

By Classic Rock Magazine Published

Future Shock found Gillan with a free-spirited sound that brought to mind nothing so much as an update on vintage Deep Purple

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Gillan posing for a photograph in 1980
How Ian Gillan put Deep Purple behind him and launched a new chapter of his career with Gillan

By Dave Ling Published

Ian Gillan reinvented himself as a NWOBHM-era star with Gillan

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The albums that found Ian Gillan riding NWOBHM's slipstream into the charts, together at last

By Johnny Sharp Published

Deep Purple survivor Ian Gillan’s career-reviving vehicle rides again across seven discs on 1978-1982

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Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore holding a guitar and Ian Gillan singing onstage
Ritchie Blackmore once asked former Deep Purple bandmate Ian Gillan to join Rainbow

By Classic Rock Published

Gillan responded by asking Blackmore to join his solo band

Bands & Artists
Ian Gillan, Phil Lynott and Suzi Quatro on Top Of The Pops
Wonderful high-def clips of old Top Of The Pops performances are appearing on YouTube

By Fraser Lewry Published

Featuring Gillan, Thin Lizzy, Suzi Quatro, Whitesnake, Motörhead, Meat Loaf, 10cc, The Who, Max Webster, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Genesis, Queen and more

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The chaotic story of Ian Gillan’s erratically brilliant solo career

By Geoff Barton Published

Jazz-funk, solo hits and near-bankruptcy – this is the turbulent story of Ian Gillan’s post-Deep Purple career

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Former Gillan and Ozzy guitarist Bernie Tormé is “extremely ill” and in intensive care

By Scott Munro last updated

Family say the guitarist has been rushed to hospital suffering from virulent pneumonia in both lungs

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Ian Gillan: 8 songs that changed my life

By Paul Brannigan Published

Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan revisits the roots of his teenage rock‘n’roll education and picks eight songs that changed his life

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Ian Gillan in 1982
Was Gillan's Magic a hidden concept album about the end of the band?

By Bob Mayo Published

Gillan's final album was their most musically daring... and it may have contained a series of veiled messages about the band's future

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Ian Gillan's 10 Favourite Gillan Songs

By Malcolm Dome Published

As Gillan's albums are reissued as a vinyl box set, singer Ian Gillan examines each disc in turn and comes up with 10 favourites...

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