It’s very likely that Don Airey appears on several of your most treasured albums. The original keyboard kingpin, that’s Don on all the best post-Dio Rainbow albums. That’s Don on Ozzy’s Blizzard Of Ozz. That’s Don on Whitesnake 1987, some albums by Gary Moore, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and, for the past three decades, Deep Purple’s.
As Don says: “I like to keep busy.” So as well as the very long list of sessions he’s done and bands he’s toured with, he makes solo albums. His latest, Pushed To The Edge, is fantastic: deeper than Purple, more moreish than Moore, the glorious spirit of classic Whitesnake and Rainbow fully intact.
