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The unbelievable true story of the Fake Deep Purple tour
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
Steve McLean is a comedian and writer from Scotland, currently living in London.
His trilogy of shows based on merchandise (Action Figure Archive, Action Figure Archive Volume 2 and Action Figure Archive Retrosexual) made multiple top ten lists and toured internationally.
His favourite Deep Purple album is Come Taste the Band. He knows this will win him no favours among the hardcore.
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The True Story of Impressario Steve Green. OUT NOW! Order from Lulu here – https://shorturl.at/ntovT The industry mogul, Steve Green was an artist manager, a promoter, a booking agent and a self confessed ‘cat fish’…. He was also a convicted fraudster. Green made a career out of ‘reuniting’ defunct bands, or at least reanimating their corpses.…
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The True Story of Impressario Steve Green. OUT NOW! Order from Lulu here – https://shorturl.at/ntovT The industry mogul, Steve Green was an artist manager, a promoter, a booking agent and a self confessed ‘cat fish’…. He was also a convicted fraudster. Green made a career out of ‘reuniting’ defunct bands, or at least reanimating their…
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One of the aims of this project (Stealing Deep Purple and the support blogs) has been to bring out the memories of people who were actually there. In the Stealing Steppenwolf blog that I wrote for The New Vinyl Villain someone shared a lovely memory of attending a Goldy McJohn, Nick St Nicholas, Kent Henry…
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Hello folks, I will be performing show based on Chapter 7 of Stealing Deep Purple at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. The show will take in the gig in Mexico as well as a wider look at the circumstances leading up to and surrounding the event. It’s free entry (but I’ll be asking for a…
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While writing Stealing Deep Purple, I reached out to a few rock musicians who had played the same venues and same circuits as The New Deep Purple. I wanted to get a feel for the environment from their point of view, the horse’s mouth as it were. Charlie Farren was notably the singer on the…
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In the book Stealing Deep Purple I theorise that the industry outrage against the New Deep Purple and other bands that were considered ‘unofficial’ was little more than playing to the crowd. I suggest that the industry was only angry when the public found out about such thing. I present to the reader that the…
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There’s very little footage or audio in circulation of The New Deep Purple. One clip exists from Mexico where the band play Smoke of the Water. The audio on the clip seems to have Rod Evans singing a little flat, this was explained by Tony Flynn as the generator for the analogue organ was running…
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The promoter Steve Green passed away on January 9th 2026. His name is frequently mentioned in connection to the New Deep Purple. If you’ve read Stealing Deep Purple you know I’m sceptical about his involvement. Many fans on the internet are convinced he was the brains behind the operation but no one that I have spoken…
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By the time the New Deep Purple were due to play the Long Beach Arena in LA, the officials of the actual band had begun to move legally. Tony Edwards and John Coletta, of the management company HEC, found the US courts too slow, partly because the duo themselves were not very quick to act.…
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