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Glenn Hughes, Kings Of Chaos, Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Glenn Hughes Has Commenced His Classic Deep Purple Live World Tour In Australia

by Paul Cashmere on September 29, 2017

in News

Former Deep Purple guitarist Glenn Hughes is performing a complete set of songs from his classic rock band for the first time ever in Australia.

Hughes kicked off the world tour for Classic Deep Purple Live in Sydney on September20.

While the show focuses around his era with the band (1974, 1975) there is also the occasional early classic.

In the two years Hughes was with Deep Purple the band reinvented itself with three albums ‘Burn’, ‘Stormbringer’ and ‘Come Taste The Band’, all now considered rock classics.

Glenn Hughes Classic Deep Purple Live setlist

Stormbringer (from Stormbringer, 1974)
Might Just Take Your Life (from Burn, 1974)
Sail Away (from Burn, 1974)
Mistreated (from Burn, 1974)
You Fool No One (from Burn, 1974)
This Time Around (from Come Taste The Band, 1975)
Holy Man (from Stormbringer, 1974)
Gettin’ Tighter (from Come Taste The Band, 1975)
You Keep on Moving (from Come Taste The Band, 1975)
Smoke on the Water (from Machine Head, 1972)
Highway Star (from Machine Head, 1972)
Burn (from Burn, 1974)

Glenn Hughes will perform Classic Deep Purple Live in:

Melbourne, Hamer Hall, Sept 29
Brisbane, QPAC Concert Hall, Oct 1
Auckland, ASB Theatre, October 3

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