I get a feeling that Deep Purple might still release another album. 
I read that Ian Gillan has written this message to Facebook:
A MESSAGE FROM IAN GILLAN
It was late March in 2019, when I found myself in Nashville TN, renting an Airbnb delight called Rose River Cottage, on one bank of the Cumberland River, almost directly opposite the Grand Ole Opry, from where the quaint music would drift across the water into the wee small hours.
It was springtime, and along with the woodchucks I was emerging from hibernation.
Across town, other members of Deep Purple were staying in more urbane accommodation. This was a shock, as we are famous for our lack of planning and we all wondered what had drawn us together in this place and time.
An even greater surprise was to follow; each member (arms and legs Im talking about) arrived at a rehearsal studio and then a recording studio at roughly the same time on roughly the same day with roughly no idea of what we were doing.
It was a total coincidence, the like of which has probably never been witnessed since unbelievably exactly the same thing happened a few years earlier when we spawned some In-Finite ideas.
Then blow me down Bob Ezrin turned up and said Lets have dinner on Monday
Someone enquired Whats the big occasion?
Bob replied To celebrate the fact that we are all still alive
In which case continued the world-weary muso, Wed better make it Sunday
But we survived the weekend and had dinner on Monday.
Tuesday, we made another album and Wednesday we went to the pub.
Something like that anyway (it was all a blur) and now we gird our lions (yes, I know, but Im in Africa) for a year of febrile activity into which a rare amount of planning has been invested; obviously not by us.
I sense the grinding of campaign wheels, the oiling of creaky roadies, rumours of itineraries and ripples of creativity in Hamburg. Quite plainly something is in the air; but I have no idea what it could be.
Perhaps, after another brief hibernation, all will become clear, in the spring of 2020.
ig
March 6th
CD1 – Street Fighting Years remastered
CD2 – Edits, B-Sides and Remixes
CD3 – Live in Verona part 1
CD4 – Live in Verona part 2
Great album that
Love Over Fear - Pendragon … 4 more days to wait.
Script for a Jester’s Tear DELUXE
CD1 SCRIPT FOR A JESTER’S TEAR (2020 STEREO REMIX)
- Script For A Jester’s Tear
- He Knows You Know
- The Web
- Garden Party
- Chelsea Monday
- Forgotten Sons
CD2 MARKET SQUARE HEREOS EP (2020 STEREO REMIX)
- Market Square Heroes
- Three Boats Down From The Candy
- Charting The Single (2020 Remaster)
- Grendel
CD3 LIVE AT THE MARQUEE CLUB, LONDON DECEMBER 29, 1982 (PART 1)
- Garden Party
- Three Boats Down From The Candy
- Chelsea Monday
- Grendel
- He Knows You Know
CD4 LIVE AT THE MARQUEE CLUB, LONDON DECEMBER 29, 1982 (PART 2)
- The Web
- Script For A Jesters Tear
- Forgotten Sons
- Market Square Heroes
- Margaret
BR
- Documentary “Sackcloth and Greasepaint – The Story of Script For A Jester’s Tear”
- Audio Content all 2020 Stereo Remix (96k 24 bit):
- Script For A Jesters Tear
- Script For A Jester’s Tear (5.1 Surround Remix)
- Market Square Heroes EP
- Live at the Marquee Club, London December 29, 1982
^ Where was this info from?
German Marillion Fanclub forum.
Is there a release date Ulli ?
March 13th, 1983
Bet you still had to google it !
Nah. Imprinted in my mind (
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Pre order => January 30th
Release date => April 3rd
This one will be on my shopping list …
Def Leppard - The Early Years box set
The Early Years 79-81 box set will be released on March 20 through UMC/Virgin and will contain remastered editions of 1980’s On Through The Night and 1981’s High ‘N’ Dry , which were overseen by Elliott, who acted as executive producer, and mastered by Def Lep’s longtime sound engineer Ronan McHugh.
The collection will be spread across five discs, with the albums joined by the previously revealed ‘Live at the Oxford New Theatre, recorded on the 1980 UK tour’ show, along with b-sides, remixes, further live cuts and more.
Deep Purple will release a new album, Whoosh!.
“The new album is to sound more progressive…”
Not sure if you lot have seen this (I just saw it for first time tonight) … the design of the new album!
On July 10th, I’m releasing my final studio album ‘ Weltschmerz ’. It’s been over 5 years since I first came up with the title which is a German word that translates to ‘world weariness’ or ‘world pain’. In this present day and age never has an album title become so apt.