NEWS

Eight of Deep Purple’s best-known albums are to be reissued on purple vinyl on September 7. Studio albums Machine

Head, Who Do We Think We Are?, Burn, Stormbringer and

Come Taste The Band and live albums Made In Japan, Made In Europe and Last

Concert In Japan have all been remastered and are pressed on 180g heavyweight vinyl. Each comes with a download code.

Yes have been honoured with a blue plaque erected at 184 Shaftesbury Avenue in London’s West End to commemorate meeting at what was the Lucky Horseshoe Café (now the Wildwood Restaurant) 50 years ago.

Meanwhile, Yes guitarist Steve Howe is to be honoured with the Prog God Award at Prog magazine’s Progressive Music Awards on September 13. Previous winners include his former bandmates Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman, Peter Gabriel, Ian Anderson, Tony Banks and, last year, Carl Palmer. Rob Zombie believes that Slayer (pictured) will resume touring again before too long. Tom Araya and company play a series of farewell shows in the UK in November and December, but Zombie suspects that retirement won’t suit them.

“After two years, they’re gonna go cuckoo and they’ll be back on the road,” says the former White Zombie frontman. “That’s what [rock musicians] are built for – we’re all crazy and we need to do this.”