BW&BK;'s Martin Popoff has issued his 28th book, A Castle Full Of Rascals: DEEP PURPLE ‘83 – ‘09. A description of the book from the author himself reads as follows:

"The book is 20% bigger than the first one (Gettin’ Tighter: Deep Purple ’68 – ’76), 290 pages, stuffed with photos of the band and other memorabilia shots but mostly, yeah, a lot of text, featuring tons of previously unused interview footage from my many chats with the guys, to the point where this is almost an oral history. In addition to the Purple prose, there’s bits about side-projects, the intro necessities about GILLAN, RAINBOW, BLACK SABBATH and WHITESNAKE, plus cool trivia from Nick Blagona, Thom Panunzio, Candice Night, Frank Morgan, and Stuart Smith (you’ll get it when ya get it!).

My aim with this thing, first and foremost, is to convert y’all to the joys of the STEVE MORSE era of the band, but of course, we’ve got lots to talk about with respect to Perfect Strangers, The House Of Blue Light, Slaves And Masters and The Battle Rages On… as well. Plus there’s lots of tour talk, details around the various live albums and bust-ups, a bit on the Concerto live album, plus of course, stories about Ritchie’s practical jokes!

What you get is my usual format – one chapter per album, every song examined. Plus the Rory Fiorito cover design matches up nicely with last year’s Gettin’ Tighter: Deep Purple ’68 – ’76. They look pretty swell together – 530 pages on Purple, and proudly, tons of it untapped talk from my interview archive.

Books will be signed by me to you, so make clear if it’s a Christmas present or whatever! One drag, given its 296 total pages, this no longer fits through this plastic mylar thing at Canada Post and thus has to go as 'small packet' rather than 'light packet' so the shipping cost is jacked – sorry."

Price including shipping:

US orders: $35.00 US funds

Int’l orders (surface mail): $37.00 US funds

Int’l orders (air mail): $44.00 US funds

Canadian orders: $36.00 Cdn. funds

PayPal accepted

Or mail payment (personal check in US funds, cash, or international money order), to:

Martin Popoff

P.O. Box 65208, 358 Danforth Ave.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

M4K 2Z2

For more info email martinp@inforamp.net or visit www.martinpopoff.com.