Eric Blair of The Blairing Out With Eric Blair Show recently conducted an interview with legendary hard rock vocalist Graham Bonnet (Rainbow, Michael Schenker Group, Alcatrazz, Impellitteri). Bonnet discusses his early years, his personal life, joining Rainbow, the Michael Schenker Group's Assault Attack album, sobriety, and the music industry. Check out the interview below.

Having recently completed a successful UK tour with his new band the Graham Bonnet Band, Graham Bonnet has plenty planned for 2016.

Not only is the Rainbow 1980 Monsters Of Rock performance finally being released on CD and DVD (more info here), soon to be released via Hear No Evil Records are reissues of Graham's solo records Line-Up (1982) Graham Bonnet (1977) No Bad Habits (1978) Here Comes The Night (1991) Underground (1996) The Day I Went Mad (1999) and the "lost" 1974 album Back Row In The Stalls (which will be on CD after an iTunes only release in 2014).  All discs feature unreleased demos, B-sides, and outtakes as well as extensive liner notes by renowned rock journalist Malcolm Dome.

In addition to that and also via Hear No Evil Records the Alcatrazz catalog will also be given the deluxe treatment with each studio release featuring either unreleased demos, live material or in the case of Live Sentence and Disturbing The Peace live DVDs from those respective time periods.

Also due is a six disc Alcatrazz box titled The Ultimate Fortress - Which will include among the studio studio albums and live set, A DVD featuring two live performances and the band’s three MTV promo clips.  Also Included is a Graham Bonnet Band six track live recording from Japan, June 2015, titled Escape From Alcatrazz featured for the first time on CD.

2016 will also see the release of the long awaited Dario Mollo / Graham Bonnet Collaboration Elektric Zoo , A Graham Bonnet Career Spanning 2CD anthology (also featuring several exclusive tracks) , A Graham Bonnet Band 11 track debut studio album (which will also feature a bonus CD of 16 re-recordings from Graham's career - Including a never before released track from 1988) . And also on the calendar for 2016 is a Graham Bonnet Band live album and Blu-ray release.

If that isn't enough, there are also plans to reissue the 1993 Blackthorne Afterlife record (The band formed by Graham, Bob Kulick, and ex-Alcatrazz keyboard player Jimmy Waldo)  with a ten track disc featuring ten previously unheard Blackthorne compositions.

Meanwhile Graham's soon to be released biography The Story Behind The Shades authored by Steve Wright is nearing completion.

The Graham Bonnet Band continue their touring activities for 2016 with shows in Europe, USA and then a second UK run before closing out 2016.