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DEEP PURPLE Singer IAN GILLAN: 'A Journey In Rock' DVD Details Revealed

April 9, 2007

According to a posting at the DEEP PURPLE fan site TheHighwayStar.com, DEEP PURPLE singer Ian Gillan's new six-hour autobiographical DVD, "Highway Star – A Journey in Rock", offers a thorough, compelling and infectious look at Ian's professional career — which in 2006 reached its 40th anniversary. The full content of the double DVD is revealed in the track listing, which can be found at this location.

Ian Gillan himself even went to Montreux to give the story behind "Smoke On The Water" from a small boat on Lake Geneva itself.

Interview footage on the DVD includes: Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, Colin Towns, Ian Paice, Don Airey, Steve Morse, Claude Nobs, Tony Iommi, Luciano Pavarotti, Tim Rice, Bruce Payne, Phil Banfield, Bron and Grace Gillan, Audrey Parkinson (Ian's mother),George Best, Ronnie James Dio, Joe Satriani and Joe Elliott.

New concert footage: DEEP PURPLE in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Cardiff and Plymouth, 2004 plus London Astoria 2006.

Other footage: 1981 TV-documentary showing the GILLAN band rehearsing for "Double Trouble".

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