IAN GILLAN - Smoke This! Book Signings Announced In The UK
April 11, 2007, 17 years ago
DEEP PURPLE frontman IAN GILLAN will be signing copies of his Smoke This! book during Deep Purple's UK tour, at Borders Bookshops branches in:
Bournemouth - Friday, April 27th at 5 pm
Brighton - Sunday, April 29th at 2.30 pm
The signing sessions will be one hour apiece.
As previously reported by Thehighwaystar.com, Gillan's new six hour autobiographical DVD 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 tracklisting here.
Ian Gillan himself even went to Montreux to give the story behind 'Smoke On The Water' from a small boat on Lake Geneva itself.
Interviews include: Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, Colin Towns, Ian Paice, Don Airey, Steve Morse, 'funky' Claude Nobs, Tony Iommi, Luciano Pavarotti, Tim Rice, Bruce Payne, Phil Banfield, Bron & Grace Gillan, Audrey Parkinson (Ian's mum), 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'.
