# Non-trivial interviews **URL:** \ **Category:** Deep Purple and family\ **Created:** [August 19, 2026, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/non-trivial-interviews/191 "2026-08-19T23:20:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fla76](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/fla76/32/96_2.png) [@Fla76](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/Fla76)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/non-trivial-interviews/191/1 "2026-08-19T23:20:49Z")
a couple of famous interviews to start: In this one I really appreciate the very clear questions of the journalist, who almost seems to want to put the DPs in difficulty, and I also appreciate the answers of the boys (with Blackmore wandering in the background while the others answer). It reflects how extraordinary the Montreux festival was as a counter-cultural youth gathering, and everything was being intellectualized at that time in search of meanings [![](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/uploads/default/original/1X/fed4e47438bc1709cdacb35ba4ff47dc2c72cb44.jpeg "Deep Purple - Swiss Doco 'The Revolution' (1971)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qxhHuMOLjI) and this is John’s famous interview with Ozzy and Ian Hunter [![](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/uploads/default/original/1X/ed020c20aa44977015e8a22a549d5697432b1aad.jpeg "Ritchie Blackmore presents Jon Lord, Ozzy Osbourne & Ian Hunter in conversation with Chip Monck 1974") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJif3zG_MDQ) ---
**Author:** ![MarceloSoares](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/marcelosoares/32/434_2.png) [@MarceloSoares](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/MarceloSoares)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 12:26am UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/non-trivial-interviews/191/2 "2026-08-20T00:26:57Z")
In Brazil, Deep Purple went twice to the talk show hosted by Jô Soares. The questions are pretty much rambling every time, but there are interesting talks about football. [https://youtu.be/jKwv-Qx1qQY?si=zDeTw11RaYGr-bmh](https://youtu.be/jKwv-Qx1qQY?si=zDeTw11RaYGr-bmh) [https://youtu.be/Stp7wPfELD4?si=gekY0SRET7lz4G40](https://youtu.be/Stp7wPfELD4?si=gekY0SRET7lz4G40) (Jô and I are not related, although Gemini thinks he was my father. People didn’t get pregnant watching TV in the 70s. We only share a very common last name, the hair colour and the fact we’re overweight.) In 1991, when Deep Purple first came to Brazil, they organized a soccer match: Deep Purple and Folha de S.Paulo (a paper I went to work at some years later) versus MTV crew. Roger gets interviewed and complains about how aggressive the MTV guys were in the field. [https://youtu.be/OmMplhZW-vg?si=XKOHwCJOY3\_zTMpj](https://youtu.be/OmMplhZW-vg?si=XKOHwCJOY3_zTMpj) In 1997, MTV Brazil went to the road with them on the Purpendicular tour. Deep Purple went to some smaller cities in São Paulo, including Santos on the beach side. [https://youtu.be/dAkh43M2XoE?si=t8mInAONXNu9VVK2](https://youtu.be/dAkh43M2XoE?si=t8mInAONXNu9VVK2) In 2009, I worked there and Jon Lord came to play the Concerto downtown. Of course I demanded to be the one interviewing him. [https://youtu.be/33vEzIFsrgA?si=cN\_LSZ1oxcwL\_COh](https://youtu.be/33vEzIFsrgA?si=cN_LSZ1oxcwL_COh) The cameraman was the same in the three occasions, indeed. Raul had so many stories to tell. Still has, but we only see each other on Facebook these days. ---
**Author:** ![MacBeath](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/macbeath/32/62_2.png) [@MacBeath](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/MacBeath)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 11:53am UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/non-trivial-interviews/191/3 "2026-08-20T11:53:35Z")
Ah Santos - my dad beat them at football in 1946 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MarceloSoares](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/marcelosoares/32/434_2.png) [@MarceloSoares](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/MarceloSoares)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/non-trivial-interviews/191/4 "2026-08-20T15:51:43Z")
They still didn’t have Pelé by then! ---
**Author:** ![MacBeath](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/macbeath/32/62_2.png) [@MacBeath](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/MacBeath)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/non-trivial-interviews/191/5 "2026-08-20T17:27:02Z")
My dad liked to think Pele was one of the hundreds of very young boys who lined the pitch and therefore watched him play 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MarceloSoares](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/marcelosoares/32/434_2.png) [@MarceloSoares](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/MarceloSoares)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/non-trivial-interviews/191/6 "2026-08-20T18:01:14Z")
I think that’s not far from what might have happened. What was his team? ---
**Author:** ![MacBeath](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/macbeath/32/62_2.png) [@MacBeath](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/MacBeath)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/non-trivial-interviews/191/7 "2026-08-20T18:38:12Z")
It was a ship - he was on the Royal Navy but post-war had been assigned to a Merchant Navy cargo ship as he was a radar operator and that was still a “Top Secret” technology. Santos knew to succeed they needed experience playing Europeans, so played most ships that spent time in the port.