Why Glenn Hughes Believes David Bowie Would Be Pissed at Him

Glenn Hughes mentioned his late close pal David Bowie would be pissed at him for remaining closely associated to his Deep Purple roots.

The pair accomplished in the mid ‘70s and Bowie wrote most of Station To Station although dwelling incognito in Hughes’ property. In a current job interview with Guitar Interactive (video under), Hughes recalled the sensible practical experience.

“I bought a simply call from him in Feb. ’75. He questioned me privately, ‘I’m gonna appear on a educate to L.A. – can I remain with you?’” Hughes prompt it was unsafe for Bowie to journey on your personal, but which is what he did, arriving a handful of days later.

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When Hughes, who was finishing a Deep Purple tour, arrived property, Bowie was at present there. “He was throwing some of my clothes away from my closet – some of the bell-bottoms, some of the boots.

“We experienced meal a single evening and he explained, ‘Listen, you’ve gotta maintain altering, man…’ I saw him [becoming] the Slender White Duke and I uncovered so much from him altering that is what I have taken from him ever given that.”

Hughes’ present routines involve touring a Deep Purple primarily based mainly clearly show – but he talked about that would ahead of extended quit. “You’ll see a definite modify in my glance up coming calendar year. You will see it in my clothes… I adore the Purple legacy but I’m indicating goodbye to it.

“Thanks to Bowie – simply because he was nevertheless alive appropriate now he’d be calling me, stating, ‘Are you nonetheless performing that?’ He would be quite pissed off!”

Why Glenn Hughes Will not Discuss to Deep Purple All more than once more

In the equivalent interview, Hughes looked back once more on Deep Purple’s Rock Hall induction in 2016, indicating it marked the final time he’d ever interact with his former band.

“I will under no circumstances speak to any of them again, only due to the fact they had been impolite,” he mentioned. “Roger [Glover], Ian [Paice] and [Ian] Gillan were impolite to David Coverdale and I – pretty, really hurtful. I did not give a fuck, really, since I understood they ended up rude to get started with.”

Noting he was “the only sober gentleman there,” he continued: “Gillan was rude to me on phase, accepting the award. I went to congratulate him he looked at me in the eyes like I didn’t exist. The person has a issue with me.” He more: “I’ve attempted to make some kind of friendship with him about the previous 40 years. He doesn’t want to know. David Coverdale and I really don’t exist to him. I want him only the quite ideal, but I have no time remaining for that habits.”

Glenn Hughes‘ Guitar Interactive Interview