Glenn Hughes is an English musician,best known for playing bass and performing vocals in funk rock band Trapeze and in the Mk. III and IV line-ups of Deep Purple,as well as briefly fronting Black Sabbath in the mid-1980s. He is known by fans as "The Voice of Rock" due to his soulful and wide-ranging singing voice.
"Smoke on the Water" is a song by English rock band Deep Purple,first released from the band's sixth studio album Machine Head (1972),which chronicles the 1971 fire at Montreux Casino.
Anthony Frank Iommi is a British musician. He co-founded the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath,and was the band's guitarist,leader and primary composer and sole continuous member for nearly five decades. Iommi was ranked number 25 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
Born Again is the eleventh studio album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath. Released on 12 September 1983,it is the only album the group recorded with lead vocalist Ian Gillan,best known for his work with Deep Purple. It was also the last Black Sabbath album for nine years to feature original bassist Geezer Butler and the last to feature original drummer Bill Ward,though Ward did record a studio track with the band fifteen years later on their 1998 live album Reunion. The album has received mixed reviews from critics,but was a commercial success upon its 1983 release,reaching No. 4 in the UK charts. The album also hit the top 40 in the United States. In July 2021,guitarist and founding member Tony Iommi confirmed that the long lost original master tapes of the album had been finally located,and that he was considering remixing the album for a future re-release.
Tyr is the fifteenth studio album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath,released in August 1990 by I.R.S. Records.
Mikko Viljami "Linde" Lindström is a Finnish musician,best known as the guitarist for the gothic rock band HIM. Influenced by the likes of Black Sabbath and Steve Vai,Lindström began playing guitar at age ten,joining the band Aurora in his teenage years,where he met Ville Valo. In 1995,the two reformed Valo's previous band HIM,which would go on to release eight studio albums and become one of the most commercially successful Finnish bands of all time,and the first to receive a gold record in the United States. In 2017,the band announced their plans to retire following a farewell tour,and played their final show on New Year's Eve 2017.
Deep Purple in Concert is a live album by the English hard rock band Deep Purple,recorded by the BBC for their "In Concert" live series in 1970 and 1972. First released in 1980 in the UK,with the current US edition being made available in 2001.
The Best of Black Sabbath is a double CD compilation album by Black Sabbath released in 2000 on the Sanctuary Records label. Its 32 songs are presented chronologically from the band's first 11 albums,spanning the years 1970 to 1983. Black Sabbath's classic six-album run,from 1970s debut Black Sabbath through 1975's Sabotage is celebrated with three to six songs from each album. Original vocalist Ozzy Osbourne's subsequent final two albums with the band,1976's Technical Ecstasy and 1978's Never Say Die!,are represented by one and two songs,respectively. Replacement Ronnie James Dio's early 80's stint fronting the band on two albums is acknowledged with the title track of 1980's Heaven and Hell and a track from 1981's The Mob Rules. The compilation closes with a song from 1983's attempted rebirth,Born Again,former Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan's sole album with the band. The Best of Black Sabbath does not include any later material with vocalists Glenn Hughes,Tony Martin (1986–96) or the returning Dio.
The Sabbath Stones (1996) is a compilation album of Black Sabbath songs taken from albums ranging from 1983's Born Again to 1995's Forbidden. It was never formally released in the US or Canada,and was the last album to be released by Black Sabbath with I.R.S. Records.
Gillan's Inn is an album by Ian Gillan in celebration of his 40 years as a singer. The first release was a DualDisc composed of both a CD and a DVD side. The CD featured re-recorded tracks from all eras of Ian Gillan's singing career. In a recent interview Gillan observed that,despite the number of participants and guest appearances,this was the easiest project he ever put together.
Ian Gillan is an English singer who is best known as the lead singer and lyricist for the rock band Deep Purple. He is known for his powerful and wide-ranging singing voice.
Rock Aid Armenia,also known in earlier stages as Live Aid Armenia,was a humanitarian effort by the British music industry to raise money to help those affected by the 1988 Armenian earthquake.
Michael Lee Jackson is an American guitarist,photographer and attorney.
The Anthology is a compilation album by the British hard rock band Deep Purple,containing material by Mks I (1968–1969),II (1969–1973),III (1973–1975) and IV (1975–1976) line-ups. It was released as a double vinyl album and double-cassette,and included a few previously-unreleased tracks and mixes. The sleeve-notes were written by Chris Charlesworth,author of Deep Purple –The Illustrated Biography.
Mr. Universe is the second studio album by the British hard rock band Gillan,and the first with the classic line-up with Ian Gillan,Colin Towns,John McCoy,Bernie Torméand Mick Underwood. Released in October 1979. The album reached No. 11 in the UK Albums Chart,and sold over 2 million copies worldwide.
"Trashed" is the opening song and first single from the 1983 album Born Again by English rock band Black Sabbath.
Dorians is an Armenian rock band founded in June 2008 by Vahagn Gevorgyan. In February 2009 the band participated at the first qualifying round of the international Eurovision Song Contest,which brought popularity to the band.
WhoCares,full title Ian Gillan &Tony Iommi:WhoCares,is a music project by Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan and Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi and a charity release by the supergroup WhoCares they had formed with the help of other musicians,to raise money to rebuild a music school in Gyumri,Armenia after the destruction of the city in the 1988 earthquake in Armenia.
WhoCares was a supergroup formed by Ian Gillan of Deep Purple and Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath in 2011 with the participation of a great number of rock artists as a charity project to raise money to rebuild a music school in Gyumri,Armenia,after the destruction of the city in the 1988 earthquake in Armenia. The album sold more than 20,000 copies in Europe.
