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Bernie Torme Looks Back On His Career Launch With Ian Gillan

11/11/2014
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(Classic Rock) Bernie Torme says he owes a big part of his career to Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan. But the guitar icon still blames Gillan for his departure from the singer's self-titled group, saying he failed to properly manage the royalties earned by the band.

Torme tells Metal Express Radio: "At the time Ian was having a hard time. He hadn't been able to get a recording contract. He had one in Japan, but no-one in the US or England would touch him.

"He had done the Ian Gillan Band albums, the jazzy albums, and the last of them hadn't sold at all so he had a bad name in terms of record labels. But it would just at the beginning of the NWOBHM and we were just in the right place at the right time. It all just happened.

"I came out of that and I had a name, I was able to live. After I left they had a lot of pressure from Virgin and it changed how the band played and recorded and I think that was bad." Read more here.

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