Glenn Hughes will play Deep Purple hits on 2017 tour

Live for the first time in 40 years, the former Deep Purple bassist/vocalist tours Australia this September.

Former Deep Purple bassist and vocalist, Glenn Hughes, will play a string of live shows across Australia this September.

To make matters more exciting, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall Of Fame inductee has confirmed plans to perform some of Deep Purple’s biggest hits while he’s at it.

Hughes and his backing band — Jeff Kollman, Lachy Doley and Pontus Engborg — will revisit some of Deep Purple’s best-known songs for the first time in over four decades.

The British rocker joined the iconic band in 1973, and played his last show with them on 15 March, 1976, at Liverpool’s Empire Theatre.

Meanwhile, Deep Purple last toured down under in 2013.

“Most Purple fans rank Burn and Stormbringer among the greatest albums the band ever made, in any incarnation,” he says. “Over that Mk III period, we were also performing Mk II classics like Smoke On The Water and Highway Star every night on massive world tours.”

Adding, “I’m incredibly excited to get out there and play tracks like Burn, Mistreated, Stormbringer and Getting Tighter, as well as some of those older songs that helped define the genre.”

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