After the terrible earthquake of Armenia in December 1988 a number of renowned musicians band hard rock and heavy metal combined to make "Rock Aid Armenia: The Earthquake Album" (published 1989) in order to raise funds to help victims of this natural disaster. One issue that was recorded on the album was a very unique version of Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple, during which Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore and Jon Lord (Deep Purple), Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden), Brian May and Roger Taylor (Queen), Paul Rodgers (Bad Company, Free), Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath), Dave Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Kieth Emerson (E, L & P), Crish Squire (Yes) John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Alex Lifeson (Rush) and Bryan Adams.
Well, after 20 years of this, during October this year was Ian Gillan awarded the Order of Honour by the Prime Minister of Armenia, Tigran Sargsyan, in thanks for their participation in the "Rock Aid Armenia" twenty years ago. They were also decorated Toni Iommi, Brian May, David Gilmour and Geoffrey Downes.
After the ceremony, spoke with the media Gillan Swedish "Dalarnas Tidningar" who claimed to have been working on a song with Iommi. Gillan said: "After being in Armenia with Tony Iommi last week, stopped at his house on his way to Manchester to finish a song we started writing together. It is a charitable group that we are planning to launch in the future, Tony, I and a few musicians. However these things take time and sometimes do not come to anything. "
'll see if in a few months we may be speaking specifically of a song or why not a whole album of these two geniuses of hard rock.
This is the video of Smoke On The Water's "Rock Aid Armenia"
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