News about Roger Glover
Following the tragedy and the death of guitarist Jon Coveney, a legendary seventies rock band has announced tour dates 42 years after splitting
www.dailymail.co.uk,
March 20, 2024
Deep Purple, a rock legend, has announced that they will be back on tour after splitting 42 years ago. The seventies band, as well as Smoke On The Water and Black Night, were one of Britain's most popular bands with a massive 100 million albums sold worldwide. With their 1 More Time Tour, the band is expected to return to the stage, with 90s indie-rockers Reef as their support.
Dan McCafferty, lead vocalist for Scottish band Nazareth who sang hit single Love Hurts, dies at 76
www.dailymail.co.uk,
November 9, 2022
Dan McCafferty, the long-serving lead singer for Nazareth's Scottish hard rock band, has died at the age of 76. In a Facebook post shared to McCafferty's page on the same day, McCafferty's bandmate, bassist Pete Agnew, announced that the singer died on Tuesday. The musician, who co-wrote many of the group's songs throughout the 1970s, is best known for his searing vocals on Nazareth's top ten hit cover of the Everly Brothers' song Love Hurts, which became a power ballad staple.