Book Review - Glenn Hughes, The Autobiography
Glenn Hughes - a bit of an enigma to me until recently. In our house musical interests were a little partisan between my brother any I. He bought the Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Steppenwolf, Deep Purple records. I bought Supertramp, Rush, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Led Zep - just the way it was. I listen to his stuff and he listened to mine. So Glenn Hughes was the bass player and second singer in the later versions of Deep Purple to me. He then disappeared off my radar for years, although I remember Hughes/Thrall, his collaboration with Gary Moore and that he was briefly the singer for Sabbath during the wilderness years for that band sadly. The rest of Purple I knew about - I'd been into the early Whitesnake stuff where Coverdale, Lord and Paice were and of course there was Rainbow with the revolving door on lead singers trying to work with Ritchie Blackmore. But Glenn Hughes... where'd he go? About 3 or 4 years back a frien...