Glenn Hughes in 2001, after completing a project with
rock musician Joe Lynn Turner.
rock musician Joe Lynn Turner.
Former Deep Purple vocalist Glenn Hughes visited Bulgaria as a guest of Sofia Music Enterprises to promote Bulgarian band BTR’s new album, The Game.
Hughes, 50, was a member of two of the succession of incarnations of Deep Purple, amid a long and varied career which has included a solo career.
On June 12, more than 3,000 fans turned out to hear BTR and Hughes, who followed the BTR appearance by performing Mistreated and Stormbringer, the latter one of Deep Purple’s best-known hits.
Hughes has been called by some music writers “the voice of rock”.
But, he told a news conference before the concert, he also had been a drug addict whose substance abuse put him a coma from which he only just escaped death.
For him, the panacea was music.
“This was the centre of the universe for me and the mother that had given me birth,” he said.
For Hughes, the voice is the most perfect instrument.
“Music saved me and being alive is paradise for me now,” Hughes said.
He was ready for new musical ventures in the new millennium.
While he believes in creating a brand new epoch for young people, this does not mean duplicating Limp Bizkit.
“Adults do not expect this from me.”
Hughes said he would always remain faithful to the rock ‘n roll era, although he had an ear for jazz and a fondness for blues.
He said he felt newborn.
Although it might be expected that after 30 years of the rock lifestyle he might be worn out, Hughes is in the studio at 7am on working days.
“I just cannot stop writing lyrics.”
While the hits of the Sixties had changed status to become regarded as classics, there was always a chance for a renaissance of these hits: “they will always be up to date,” Hughes said.
His advice to his young audience was to know the background of the musicians they admired, and to take due heed of the 1970s as a time memorable for its place in the history of music.
“It is a pity that today’s young people care only about tattoos and clothes,” he said.
“I believe in the resurrection of the soul,” he told the news conference.
Hughes said that even in his previous life he was a musician.
“People want to always remember me as Glenn Hughes and I remain the man with the long hair and loud powerful voice.”
He would remain that man to the end of his life, he said.
Hughes, 50, was a member of two of the succession of incarnations of Deep Purple, amid a long and varied career which has included a solo career.
On June 12, more than 3,000 fans turned out to hear BTR and Hughes, who followed the BTR appearance by performing Mistreated and Stormbringer, the latter one of Deep Purple’s best-known hits.
Hughes has been called by some music writers “the voice of rock”.
But, he told a news conference before the concert, he also had been a drug addict whose substance abuse put him a coma from which he only just escaped death.
For him, the panacea was music.
“This was the centre of the universe for me and the mother that had given me birth,” he said.
For Hughes, the voice is the most perfect instrument.
“Music saved me and being alive is paradise for me now,” Hughes said.
He was ready for new musical ventures in the new millennium.
While he believes in creating a brand new epoch for young people, this does not mean duplicating Limp Bizkit.
“Adults do not expect this from me.”
Hughes said he would always remain faithful to the rock ‘n roll era, although he had an ear for jazz and a fondness for blues.
He said he felt newborn.
Although it might be expected that after 30 years of the rock lifestyle he might be worn out, Hughes is in the studio at 7am on working days.
“I just cannot stop writing lyrics.”
While the hits of the Sixties had changed status to become regarded as classics, there was always a chance for a renaissance of these hits: “they will always be up to date,” Hughes said.
His advice to his young audience was to know the background of the musicians they admired, and to take due heed of the 1970s as a time memorable for its place in the history of music.
“It is a pity that today’s young people care only about tattoos and clothes,” he said.
“I believe in the resurrection of the soul,” he told the news conference.
Hughes said that even in his previous life he was a musician.
“People want to always remember me as Glenn Hughes and I remain the man with the long hair and loud powerful voice.”
He would remain that man to the end of his life, he said.
