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| Ian Gillan (born 19 August 1945 in Hounslow, London), is an English rock music vocalist best known as the lead singer for Deep Purple.In his prime he possessed a very wide vocal range, extending from the D2 to the B5.As Ian Gillan Band
7.Garth Rockett, Jess Thunder, Jess Gillan, and probably others as well.He was the lead vocalist in the band Episode Six.After Deep Purple members Jon Lord and Ritchie Blackmore saw one of his performances with the band, he was later approached to replace Rod Evans in Deep Purple.Deep Purple albums as In Rock, Fireball, Machine Head and Who Do We Think We Are.During these years, he also was the voice of Jesus on the original 1970 album recording of Jesus Christ Superstar.He was offered the lead role in the 1973 film adaptation.Ian demanded not only to be paid for his role in the movie but insisted, without the consent of his manager, that the entire band be paid because filming would conflict with a scheduled tour.He added that "there are certain personal issues that I have with Ritchie, which means that I will never speak to him again.Nothing I'm going to discuss publicly, but deeply personal stuff."He formed the Ian Gillan Band.Gillan reformed the lineup and shortened the group's name to Gillan.In 1982 Ian Gillan announced the band would fold as he needed to rest his damaged vocal cords.In 1983 he joined Black Sabbath (replacing Ronnie James Dio) for a year to record the Born Again album and tour (on which Black Sabbath played the Purple standard "Smoke On The Water" as an encore).He was quoted in Kerrang!In an interview on Part 2 of the VHS, The Black Sabbath Story (1992), he said, "I was the worst singer Black Sabbath ever had..."The rest of Deep Purple carried on, eventually replacing Blackmore with Steve Morse, and Gillan remains in the band to the present day.In 1984, Gillan married Bron, his girlfriend, whom Ian had dedicated the melancholic "Keep It Warm" from Black Sabbath's 1983 Born Again.He currently lives in the English coastal town of Lyme Regis in Dorset, United Kingdom.Gillan's mother, Audrey Parkinson, often visits him while he is touring with Deep Purple in the United Kingdom.He is also a big fan of cricket.On August 15, 1998, he was charged with assault after striking a security guard on the head with a microphone.Tony Iommi, Jeff Healey, Joe Satriani, as well as current and former members of Deep Purple such as Jon Lord, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Don Airey and Steve Morse are featured on this 2006 CD and DVD.These albums began to be released in early 2007.On April 2nd 2007, Ian Gillan released a DVD Highway Star: A Journey In Rock.In February 2008 Ian Gillan will release a double live album on edel Records."Live in Anhaim" will features Gillan and Deep Purple classic songs and several rarities.Gillan himself made light of this in the lyrics to "MTV", a track off of Deep Purple's 2005 album Rapture of the Deep.Books
Gillan, Ian (1998), Ian Gillan: The Autobiography of Deep Purple's Lead Singer.Gillan, Ian (2006), Smoke This!"Child In Time: An Interview With Ian Gillan", KNAC, Dec.This article does not cite any references or sources.Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan in 1975.History
After leaving Deep Purple in 1973, Ian Gillan had retired from the music business to pursue other business ventures, including a motorbike manufacturing company and a hotel.This fact, combined with a warm reception to his guest appearance at the Butterfly Ball in 1975 prompted him to resume a singing career and form a new band.Initially called Shand Grenade, Gillan was persuaded to change the band's name to the Ian Gillan Band.He recruited guitarist Ray Fenwick, bass player John Gustafson, keyboard player Mike Moran and Elf drummer Mark Nauseef.Their next album, Scarabus (1977), had more of a rock sound but retained the jazz fusion direction.Released at the height of punk rock, there was no success beyond Japan and their label Island Records dropped them.The following year Ian Gillan dissolved the band but retained Colin Towns and formed a new band called simply Gillan.See Copyrights for details.Who is Ian Gillan?America to deliver us almost nightly to the stage door of some venue or another.Good morning from Montevideo.Argentina, at The Estadio Pepsi Music.John Kerrison (drm) occasionally.However, according to the sleeve notes to the Javelins' 1994 recording, Gillan was recruited directly to Wainwright's Gentlemen from the Javelins.People involved
Ian Gillan (vcl); and whoever else.Gillan joined Glover in Episode Six.Incense : UK 1966 Pye
Material from above appears on...Portugal 1967 Pye PAT 54004
Material from above appears on...The B side is somewhat, er...UK Sep 1967 Pye
Material from above appears on...With a slight change in band name.Purple Records PUR 318
Material from above appears on...Les Bicyclettes De Belsize.Purple Records PUR 318
Material from above appears on...July 1969 to June 1973
Deep Purple Mk II.People involved
Ritchie Blackmore (gtr); Ian Gillan (vcl); Roger Glover (bss); Jon Lord (kbr); Ian Paice (drm).Gillan joins Deep Purple and brings along Glover.They record four classic albums: Deep Purple in Rock (1970), Fireball (1971), Machine Head (1972) and Who Do We Think We Are (1973).Eventually, Gillan gets tired of the business.Lord's Concerto was performed live at the Royal Albert Hall on 24 September 1969, by Deep Purple (with two brand new members, Gillan and Glover) and the RPO conducted by Malcolm Arnold.People involved
Annette Brox (vcl); Victor Brox (vcl); Mike d'Abo (vcl); Paul Davis (vcl); Barry Dennen (vcl); Yvonne Elliman (vcl); Ian Gillan (vcl); John Gustafson (vcl); Murray Head (vcl); Neil Hubbard (gtr); Brian Keith (vcl); Henry McCullogh (gtr); Chris Mercer (sxp); Paul Raven (vcl); Peter Robinson (kbr); Bruce Rowland (drm); Alan Spenner (bss); and loads of others.I'm unsure as to the accuracy of that, since I've also heard that it took at least a couple of afternoons.Material from above appears on...Shame : UK Jul 1976 Oyster 2066 679
Material from above appears on...Glover's Butterfly Ball was performed live at the Royal Albert Hall together with loads of guests, incl.Ian Gillan who thus did his first live performance since leaving Deep Purple.People involved
Ray Fenwick (gtr); Ian Gillan (vcl); John Gustafson (bss); Mark Nauseef (drm); Mickey Lee Soule (kbr).People involved
Ray Fenwick (gtr); Ian Gillan (vcl); John Gustafson (bss); Mark Nauseef (drm); Colin Towns (kbr).Live At The Budokan Vols.Live At The Budokan Vols.People involved
Randy California (gtr); Ray Fenwick (gtr); Ian Gillan (vcl); John Gustafson (bss); Mark Nauseef (drm); Colin Towns (kbr); and probably others as well.Ian Gillan Band did 5 gigs together with Randy California as part of a package tour sponsored by some American deodorant manufacturer.People involved
Steve Byrd (gtr); Liam Genocky (drm); Ian Gillan (vcl); John McCoy (bss); Colin Towns (kbr).Gillan and Towns started working on another idea, which eventually evolved into Gillan (the group).Scroll downwards for more details.People involved
Pete Barnacle (drm); Steve Byrd (gtr); Ian Gillan (vcl); John McCoy (bss); Colin Towns (kbr).UK 1999 Purple Records PUR 306
Material from above appears on...Japan Sep 1979 East World Sound EWS 81254
Mr.People involved
Janick Gers (gtr); Ian Gillan (vcl); John McCoy (bss); Colin Towns (kbr); Mick Underwood (drm).Fiji : UK Virgin VS 537
Material from above appears on...People involved
Geezer Butler (bss); Ian Gillan (vcl); Tony Iommi (gtr); Bill Ward (drm); and Geoff Nicholls (kbr).It also helped Gillan through rough financial times.People involved
Bev Bevan (drm); Geezer Butler (bss); Ian Gillan (vcl); Tony Iommi (gtr); Geoff Nicholls (kbr).Video
The Black Sabbath Story Vol.People involved
Ritchie Blackmore (gtr); Ian Gillan (vcl); Roger Glover (bss); Jon Lord (kbr); Ian Paice (drm).UK Feb 1988 Virgin VST 1041
Material from above appears on...Ian Gillan collected a bunch of rock musicians, resurrected an old band name and went touring.No More Cane On The Brazos : Germany 1990 Teldec
Material from above appears on...People involved
Bryan Adams; Geoff Beauchamp; Ritchie Blackmore; Bruce Dickinson; Geoff Downes; Keith Emerson; Ian Gillan; Dave Gilmour; John Paul Jones; Tony Iommi; Alex Lifeson; Jon Lord; Brian May; Paul Rodgers; Chris Squire; Roger Taylor.People involved
Tommy Eyre (kbr); Ian Gillan (vcl); Chris Glenn (bss); Dave Lloyd (bvc); Ted McKenna (drm); Steve Morris (gtr); Mick O'Donoghue (gtr).Did a Naked Thunder promo tour and video.It was recorded during a drunken session at the Werner Studios in Copenhagen (Denmark), in the midst of Gillan's Naked Thunder tour.Material from above appears on...Cees Ten Dam (sxp); Ad Van Der Ree (drm); Elvira Vallentin (bvc).People involved
Brett Bloomfield (bss); Ian Gillan (vcl); Leonard Haze (drm); Steve Morris (gtr).Gillan screamed his way through an entire album.Material from above appears on...People involved
Brett Bloomfield (bss); Ian Gillan (vcl); Leonard Haze (drm); Dean Howard (gtr).People involved
Ritchie Blackmore (gtr); Ian Gillan (vcl); Roger Glover (bss); Jon Lord (kbr); Ian Paice (drm).They record The Battle Rages On...However, frictions within the band continue to amass until Blackmore decides to leave in the middle of the tour.People involved
Mihalis Rakintzhs (vcl); together with Ian Gillan (vcl) and some Greek fellows.Gillan joined Rakintzhs for three gigs in Greece during August 1993.People involved
Ian Gillan (vcl); Roger Glover (bss); Jon Lord (kbr); Ian Paice (drm); Joe Satriani (gtr).People involved
Ian Gillan (vcl); Roger Glover (bss); Jon Lord (kbr); Steve Morse (gtr); Ian Paice (drm).With Steve Morse, another American guitar hero, Deep Purple started a new era.People involved
Ian Gillan (vcl); Steve Morris (gtr); and possibly some others.Gillan finished the basic tracks for a solo album titled Dreamcatcher already in 1995.People involved
Ian Gillan (vcl); Ray Slijngaard (vcl); the Bolland Brothers (msc); and others?The entire performance is available on CD, Video and DVD.See Jon Lord's Discobiography.People involved
Don Airey (kbr); Ian Gillan (vcl); Roger Glover (bss); Steve Morse (gtr); Ian Paice (drm).People involved
Don Airey (kbr); Ian Gillan (vcl); Roger Glover (bss); Steve Morse (gtr); Ian Paice (drm).His shoes are now filled by the eminent Don Airey.Don't forget to check Ian Gillan's Official Website for more info, especially on the most recent events.Michael Lee Jackson, Joe Mennonna, Randy Cooke, Dean Howard, Rodney Appleby and yours truly.Ian Gillan's Official Myspace page is monitored and administrated by immergent.To contact Ian directly, please visit his personal website at and click here: Gillan.Content table tbody tr td div, table tbody tr td div div, tr table, td, img img table img table table td, table table, table table td, table table table td table table table table div, table table table table tr div table table table table table table table table table table table table table table table table table .Bar table td font span, table tbody tr td div div, table tbody tr td div div A:link, table tbody tr td div div A:visited, table tbody tr td div div A:hover, table tbody tr td div div A:active td.Class TABLE table tbody tr td div a:link, table table tbody tr td div a:visited, table table tbody tr td div a:hover, table table tbody tr td div a:active a:link, a:visited, a:hover, a:active, a.Small:active, table table table table td b, .FreeStyle table table table table table table .TopCorner A * html object .BUY DELUXE TOUR EDITION HERE!For a limited time you can order a signed copy of Gillan's Inn Deluxe Tour Edition HERE!When A Blind Man Cries
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13.Get this video and more at MySpace.Who is Ian Gillan?He has played to tens of millions of fans, and sold over one hundred million records.He's an author, a playwright, a songwriter and a philosopher with a wicked sense of humor and a bit of the devil in his eye.Pavarotti said he is a genius, and David Gilmour said as long as Gillan is singing, rock and roll is not dead.And most of all, hes got a seasoned impassioned voice and lyrical sense still better than any in rock and roll after forty years of giving it his all.Nothing sums up Ian Gillan more, than Gillans Inn, a career retrospective DualDisc like none other!Johnny Rzeznik (Goo Goo Dolls), Ronnie James Dio (Dio), Steve Morse, Jeff Healey and the rest of Deep Purple.Gillan's Inn is produced by Nick Blagona (The Police, Bee Gees, Chicago, Rainbow, Deep Purple, and many many others).BUY ORIGINAL DUAL DISC HERE!"Are you sure you want to delete this comment?"Wish you Great health an Inspiration, love and peace!Please come back to Brazil soon!!!Merry Christmas dear dear Ian!!Thank You for the add, Happy Holidays!Just stopping by to wish you a blessed Holiday season and Best wishes for 2008.What a voice and talent!!!Best congratulations on the Christmas Eve.Gillan,Merry, Merry and Happy, Happy...Merry Christmas and happy New year!Merry Christmas to a living legend and one of my favs!Hope the New Year will bring us some new fantastic music!Thank you so much for the add!Hello my dearest musician,I wish you a very happy Christmas, a lovelytime and a healthy and lucky New Year.Stephan (Is she really going out with him?It was quite terrific to see you on stage a few weeks ago at the Country Hall.This could be an attempt to steal your username and password.This is not a MySpace login page, please do not enter your MySpace login information (email address or password).Id + " Link: " + targetLink.Id + " Text: " + targetLink.Background color has been set to '+this.Add a link to your "Ian Gillan" fan site on VH1.Another member of the latter band was bass player Roger Glover, and the two were invited to join Deep Purple in 1969, debuting with the band at the Speakeasy club in London on July 10.Who Do We Think We Are (1973; Top Five U.All of that recording, along with virtually uninterrupted worldwide touring, took its toll on Gillan, who was hospitalized for exhaustion in October 1971 and who first voiced an intention to leave the band in August 1972.He was at first persuaded to stay, but gave Deep Purple notice in October that he would depart after existing concert commitments had been fulfilled.As he left, "Smoke on the Water" from Machine Head was making its way up the U.Top Five and go gold, becoming Deep Purple's biggest career hit.After a couple of abortive projects, he formed the Ian Gillan Band with guitarist Ray Fenwick, bassist John Gustafson, keyboardist Mike Moran, and drummer Mark Nauseef in 1975.Their debut album, Child in Time, entered the British charts in July 1976 and the U.Switching to Island Records, they followed with Clear Air Turbulence (April 1977) and Scarabus (November 1977), neither of which reached the charts.By the summer of 1978, after various personnel changes, the group had simplified its name to Gillan, and it consisted of guitarist Steve Byrd, keyboardist Colin Towns, bassist John McCoy, and drummer Pete Barnacle.Universe, released on Acrobat Records, which became a British chart success, peaking just outside the Top Ten in 1979.Ian Gillan's albums got little or no distribution in America; in 1990, Metal Blade reissued his catalog.At the end of 1982, Ian Gillan disbanded Gillan, announcing that he had to rest his vocal cords on doctor's orders.In May 1983, he surprised fans by joining Black Sabbath for the recording of their album Born Again and toured with the band from August to March 1984.Deep Purple, including Gillan, signed to Polydor Records, reuniting the band.The Deep Purple live album Nobody's Perfect (1988) followed, and then Gillan made a duo album with Glover, Accidentally on Purpose (1988)."Smoke on the Water" issued as a charity single credited to Rock Aid Armenia; it made the British Top 40.In December 1992, he again returned to Deep Purple, convening with the old lineup in a German recording studio to make The Battle Rages On, released in July 1993 and followed by a world tour that ran until early December.He left yet again but had returned by the time of the 1996 album Purpendicular.Gillan released 2003's Poor Boy Hero and the double CD Second Sight in 2005.Blast (Top 40)
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Think you know all about 50?Test Your Smarts with our quiz and find out!Biography: Ian Gillan was one of the foremost vocalists of the heavy metal style of rock that emerged in the 1970s, earning his ...To share this media with a friend, you must have AIM installed.Want More Ian Gillan?August is the time for our annual household argument about Jesus Christ Superstar.The disagreement is basically this.Judas is, indeed, presented with the maximum sympathy compatible with Christianity, but ultimately his failing is a lack of trust in a power and mystery that is beyond his understanding.Well, when I watch the movie (a very good deal at the moment, more on that later), and even when I listen to the soundtrack, I can sort of see her point.But my reading of Jesus Christ Superstar was a response not to the movie or soundtrack, but to the original concept recording.Jon, thanks for the protection, and the loans).If not, it would tend to reinforce this idea.Like I said, though, it has been awhile.On the concept album Jesus vs.Christian than the film.Christian (hippie version) as well.Mom was a very buttoned up Catholic with a soft spot for hippie culture).As a music professor at a prestigious university, and therefore an infallible expert on such things, I would like to confirm that JC Superstar is, in fact, good music.Ian Gillan is a much more compelling Jesus, singing with an incredible charisma and ferocity.Satan is a pretty compelling character in Paradise Lost, right?Greece explained why some G Orthodox found The Last Temptation of Christ blasphemous.So, why do DVDs of concerts and movies cost less than the soundtracks?Ian Gillan: best rock vocalist of all time.Judas as true hero is of course an old theme.Funny but true JCS story: My father, who is a police officer, once nearly had to arrest Jesus.The owner wanted them all to pay or be arrested but something was worked out in the end.Broadway performance of Ragtime (which was wonderful).This actually changed somewhat quickly as the 60s arrived in town with the advent of the 70s.ALW is an Englishman after all.The songs are better too.Vivian and Matt mentioned.See the place where they laid him.There you will see him, just as he told you.Gospel in the oldest manuscripts.Apostles singing about fame at the Last Supper).Muslim: a bit pointless.But both works recognise the possibility of transformation that such mythologies offer.Jesus are cherrypicked neatly to ground him in his (abstracted) cultural moment and his institution.Bobby Fischer fella in Chess, another Rice concept album of note.Christianity had there been no other gospels.Passions, both of which end with the crucifixion and burial.But someone more expert in Bach can confirm or correct that point for me.Webber knew more about Bach than I did, and that the similarities in musical form (superficial though they may be) between JCS and the St.In short, unconventional, therefore sinful.Who in the hell do you think you are?Went for a ride on his yamaha.Judas would betray Jesus and that Judas was aware of it.Making him far more complicated than the straight up bad guy.Oh my lord I love that music.Ian Gillian and Murray Head are gods to me.Sheri Berman,The Primacy of Politics
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