Yerevan /Mediamax/. On May 6, German Edel Company will issue the CD single of WhoCares ad-hoc band, set up by the vocalist of "Deep Purple" Ian Gillan and the guitarist of “Heaven and Hell” and "Black Sabbath" Tony Iommi for fundraising for the Armenian music school.

On the eve of the release Ian Gillan talked to Mediamax.

- WhoCares became your first experience of joint songwriting with Tony Iommi after you joined Black Sabbath for one year in 1983. What was this new experience like and have you drew some parallels between the new and old cooperation?

- It was great to work with Tony again, he is very easy to write with and as a singer I know exactly where he's going. It wasn’t dramatic, just friendly and professional.

We hope to do it again sometime in the not too distant future.

It wasn’t like the last experience with Black Sabbath, that was a band and an album - totally different.

- You wrote the song “Out of My Mind” right after visiting Armenia in October 2009. Can you please tell - how it happen? Who was “responsible” for what when writing this song?

- Well, normally...people like us who work with bands write the bits that we play.

In this case with “Out of My Mind” Tony presented the entire musical idea and I wrote what I sing over the top or along with it if you prefer. The second track of thw WhoCares single “Holy Water” was a bit different as I wrote that with Steve Morris and Tony was gracious enough to play guitar on it.

- After visiting Spitak in 1990 you wrote a song "Pictures of Hell". We have noticed some link between that song and “Out of My Mind” - can you please tell a little more about it?

- Well, I have merely used the title as a method of evocation for the new song with regard to the appalling and heartbreaking images I witnessed on my first visit. I have to say again I will never forget the Pictures of Hell.