{"id":699818,"date":"2026-07-19T10:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699818\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T10:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:56:13","slug":"deep-purples-ian-gillan-i-never-said-i-was-going-to-retire-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699818\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Purple\u2019s Ian Gillan: \u2018I never said I was going to retire\u2019 | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/deep-purple\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deep Purple<\/a> frontman Ian Gillan has dismissed speculation that he is preparing to retire, insisting he still has the energy to perform. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/the-independent\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Independent<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/author\/roisin-oconnor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Music Editor, Roisin O&#8217;Connor,<\/a> at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Gillan clarified comments that had been interpreted as suggesting he was ready to step away. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never said that at all,&#8221; he clarified. &#8220;What I said was when I felt I didn&#8217;t have the strength, then I would retire.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The singer added that the band is still &#8220;cranking&#8221;, praising the energy of their live shows and describing their latest album, Splat, as among their strongest work in years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan has dismissed speculation that he is preparing to retire, insisting he still has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[14632,219825,219827,232009,6491,36669,6494,309,203662,176898,96,293,10668,172288,232008,11237,185019,15207,11090,183803,71617,185022,6487,195600,1671,217,55531,56,54,203664,55,659,203772],"class_list":["post-699818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-argentina","tag-argentina-national-soccer-team","tag-argentina-national-team","tag-atlanta-georgia","tag-celebrities","tag-coach","tag-color-image","tag-england","tag-england-national-soccer-team","tag-england-national-team","tag-entertainment","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-fifa-world-cup-2026","tag-georgia-us-state","tag-horizontal","tag-international-team-soccer","tag-looking","tag-manager","tag-match-sport","tag-mercedes-benz-stadium","tag-national-team","tag-photography","tag-semifinal-round","tag-soccer","tag-sport","tag-thomas-tuchel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-kingdom-national-team","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-usa","tag-world-sports-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}