Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan: ‘We were a drinking band – I smoked my first joint at 38’
in February 1971 (the song was played onstage that very night) – are long gone. Back then, like all groups, they worked like ...
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Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan: ‘I’ve seen parties too wild to describe’
As Deep Purple piled into their most famous hit, “Smoke on the Water”, during their 10th appearance at Montreux Jazz Festival, organisers pulled out all the stops to recreate the 1971 fire at ...