JOE LYNN TURNER - "Rock-And-Roll And Politics Are Finally Really Coming Together"
The following report is courtesy of Kevin O'Flynn from
Themoscowtimes.com:
While campaigning recently in the Urals, first deputy prime minister and presidential front-runner Dmitry Medvedev discussed his affinity for exercise, the value of reading books and, more interestingly, his love for rock music
Medvedev, a renowned heavy metal fan, said he still listens to rock music occasionally. But while some voters may have assumed that he was talking about his vinyl record collection, Medvedev may have been referring to a secret private concert he attended last year.
A former member of
DEEP PURPLE/RAINBOW, one of Medvedev's favorite bands, and one of the world's best rock guitarists were flown into Moscow in June to play a concert for Medvedev and other government officials celebrating Russia Day.
"The next president was there," Joe Lynn Turner, a former singer for Deep Purple and the rock group Rainbow, said in a telephone interview from New York last month.
Turner was flown in from Japan for the concert, where he was joined by
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, the Swedish rock guitarist famous for his neoclassical rock-guitar compositions and for appearing in the Xbox game Guitar Hero II.
Turner, who has been traveling to Russia since the late 1980s and has seen much of what the rock world has to offer, was taken back by the access and the luxury he was afforded on his trip.
"I am breaking bread with people who are in [President Vladimir] Putin's Cabinet who are very high up," Turner said. "Rock-and-roll and politics are finally really coming together."
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