Throughout an look on the Thunder Underground podcast, legendary bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes was requested if there are any plans for him to collaborate with Tony Iommi once more. The legendary DEEP PURPLE bassist/vocalist beforehand labored with the BLACK SABBATH guitarist on “Seventh Star” (1986),and later reunited with him for “Fused” (2005),along with being featured on the “1996 DEP Classes” (2004) assortment of beforehand unreleased materials. Glenn mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “[Tony and I] are actually good mates. He lives on the opposite facet of the world, and once we communicate, we discuss, lets do extra work? And it is like a matter of discovering a window or a possibility.
“Persons are asking, am I singing on [Tony‘s upcoming solo] album?” Glenn added. “Nicely, it isn’t me. It is any individual else. I do not know who it’s.”
Hughes additionally talked about final month’s “Again To The Starting” live performance in Birmingham, United Kingdom, which marked Ozzy Osbourne and BLACK SABBATH‘s last efficiency. He mentioned: “Nicely, these guys are household to me. We grew up collectively. We had been born very shut to at least one one other. So, I’ve identified every member of that band since 1970. So you possibly can think about we have now a variety of historical past and friendships. So I solely wanna say I am actually grateful that they acquired a possibility to do that. I feel each band deserves to have one final second. And if that was the final second — however you by no means know, do you? [Laughs]”
Requested if that’s one thing he can be thinking about doing himself, when it comes to asserting his last live performance, when that point ultimately arrives, Glenn mentioned: “I do not actually suppose like that. I do not suppose I am gonna be the one to ever say, ‘That is gonna be my final present,’ to promote tickets. My final present shall be my final present. And I am hoping I will be round for some time, however I do not actually plan on doing something. It might change, however I do not know.”
Earlier this month, Hughes was requested by SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk” if he has “an concept” in his thoughts on retirement and the way he wish to finish his profession. The previous DEEP PURPLE and present BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION member, who turned 74 final week, responded: “ Good query. The phrase ‘retirement’ is one thing I do not usually say.
“A great story for you there. In June, I went on a tour of Europe with BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION. And Joe [Bonamassa, BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION guitarist] and I had been speaking after two exhibits in that we had been pondering earlier than we began that tour that perhaps this may be the top of BCC, perhaps we have finished and dusted what we began out to do. And humorous sufficient, we felt on that tour of Europe that we had been truly simply getting began. We made a dwell album, by the way in which; it will be popping out early subsequent yr.
“I feel someday early this yr, I believed, ‘Perhaps I ought to gradual it down. Perhaps I ought to take it simple,’ blah, blah, blah,” Hughes admitted. “However ever since I got here house from the BCC tour, I am reinvigorated. I’ve acquired new function. I’ve by no means felt so robust, and I am actually trying ahead to doing extra exhibits, each solo and with BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION.”
5 years in the past, Hughes informed the “Thunder Underground” podcast that he plans to proceed writing music up till his “last day.” He mentioned: “Individuals ask me that query — not on a regular basis, however they do ask that query.
“A great good friend of mine, who you recognize of — I will not say who he’s — however we have had a dialog about retirement. And I do know lots of people older than me which can be nonetheless going — [Mick] Jagger and Robert Plant; mates of mine. They’re nonetheless going ‘trigger they love music.
“In case you are a musician who’s a songwriter, you simply proceed to write down,” he added. “And that is what I do — I have been doing it for [more than] 50 years. However extra so since I have been sober, for the final [30-plus] years, I have been writing extra correct songs, about restoration. In truth, I do not know if you recognize, however most of my work offers with the human situation and about, just about, the love issue and restoration and being free, and that is the place I am at.”
Glenn‘s new studio album “Chosen”, is ready for launch on September 5 by way of Frontiers Music Srl.
In early June, Hughes launched the official music video for the “Chosen” title monitor. It was adopted by the “Voice In My Head” video a month later. Earlier this month, Glenn shared “Into The Fade”.
This yr can even see Hughes busy touring throughout Europe and South America, with “The Chosen Years” tour beginning in Zoetermeer, Netherlands, on September 2 and ending on November 29 in Bogota, Colombia.
Glenn, a local of Cannock, England, absorbed all types of influences, together with early British onerous rock, THE BEATLES and, most significantly, American soul and R&B. The glossy Motown sound from Detroit and the gritty Stax/Volt sound from Memphis left their mark on him.
Hughes first discovered success within the early ’70s with the band TRAPEZE earlier than becoming a member of DEEP PURPLE in 1973 throughout a pivotal lineup change that launched him and David Coverdale to the group. Regardless of preliminary skepticism, the revamped band silenced critics with the discharge of “Burn” (1974),a robust album that revitalized PURPLE‘s sound and stays a basic. Throughout this period, the band headlined the long-lasting California Jam in entrance of over 300,000 followers, toured the world aboard their personal jet The Starship, and launched two extra studio albums, “Stormbringer” and “Come Style The Band”, earlier than disbanding in 1976.
Glenn‘s first solo album “Play Me Out” was launched in 1977. He joined former Pat Travers guitarist Pat Thrall to kind HUGHES/THRALL, which launched an acclaimed self-titled album in 1982. All through the ’80s and ’90s, Glenn Hughes made numerous visitor appearances (each credited and un-credited) as a vocalist, bass guitarist or songwriter on different artists’ albums. The countless record consists of — amongst others — Gary Moore, John Norum and Tony Iommi of BLACK SABBATH.
Since 1992, Glenn has began a prolific solo profession with a dozen studio albums the place he explored all of the completely different sides of his songwriting and influences: from onerous rock to funk and extra up to date sounds. He collaborated — amongst others — with such musicians as Chad Smith (RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS),Dave Navarro, John Frusciante and plenty of others. He additionally based or took half in some superb musical alliances comparable to CALIFORNIA BREED (with Jason Bonham and Andrew Watt),BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION (with Joe Bonamassa and Jason Bonham) and THE DEAD DAISIES.
Glenn has collaborated with Robbie Williams on his new single “Rocket”, which was launched on Could 22, 2025. The monitor additionally includes a collaboration from Iommi and would be the first time Glenn has been featured on a document with Tony since 2005, once they launched “Fused” collectively.
Glenn additionally just lately joined forces with SATCHVAI, a brand new collaboration by legendary guitar icons Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, by writing and singing on their new single “I Wanna Play My Guitar”.
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