• Live at Montreux 2006: They All Came Down to Montreux is the first live release by English hard rock band Deep Purple's mk VIII lineup. This concert was...
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    remained flat, but gained Morse and the band an invitation to perform at Montreux Jazz Festival on July 23, 1978. Four songs from the recorded performance...
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  • the financial world. According to Coverdale, during the album recording in Montreux, he spent all night writing four-to-six different lyrics, and Blackmore...
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  • Knocking at Your Back Door (category All articles needing additional references)
    1993 (2007), and Live at Montreux 2011 (2011) "Music Week" (PDF). p. 16. Martin Popoff The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time, p. 319, at Google Books...
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    No" in addition to the three aforementioned songs. "Anyone's Daughter" was played on the 1993–1994 tours, while "Fools", "No One Came", "I'm Alone", and...
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  • recorded in December 1971 in Montreux, Switzerland, and released on 30 March 1972, by Purple Records. It is the band's third album to feature the Mark II line-up...
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  • in a world growing ever more complex, everything eventually simplifies down to a single, unified essence. Everything equals one". Music writer John Aizlewood...
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    Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. For "King of Dreams""Bubbling Down Under". 29 October 2021. Retrieved 30 October 2021. "Austrian Singles". Austrian...
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    nine years old when I just picked it up one day and sat down with a tuition book and started to learn a few chords".. By age 15 he entered Guitarist magazine's...
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  • recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival on 16 July 2011. Besides a 2CD release, the concert film has also been released on DVD and Blu-ray. All formats were...
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    Back on the Streets. With Rainbow he contributed to two hit albums, Down to Earth and Difficult to Cure. After leaving Rainbow in 1981, Airey joined...
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    Greatest Songs of All Time. NME ranked it No. 37 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame added it to the list of...
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    all the neighbours for about five miles in Montreux, because it was echo-ing through the mountains. I was just getting the last part of the riff down...
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  • Smoke on the Water (category Montreux)
    1971 fire at Montreux Casino in Montreux, Switzerland. It is considered the band's signature song and its guitar riff is considered to be one of the...
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    song," saying that the instrumental work and tailoring of the rock song all point to sheer force". Record World described it as "a rollicking, contemporary...
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    the title came to him when he awoke from a dream two days after the famous fire over Lake Geneva. While he liked the title, he was reluctant to have the...
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    shows; this was due both to injury from a confrontation with Black Sabbath's production manager John Downing, which contributed to a degradation in his voice...
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  • created "using the Cold War as the theme", adding "the words came easily because we were all aware of the nuclear threat looming over us at what was probably...
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    and Paice were original members of Deep Purple when they formed in Hertfordshire in 1968. According to Deep Purple's founding bassist, Nick Simper, Evans...
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  • been decent managers, they would have said, 'All right, stop. I want you to all go on three months' holiday. I don't even want you to pick up an instrument...
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    venues. In 2011, Night said, "We have actually turned down a lot of (touring) opportunities." They have released eleven studio albums, with the latest one...
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    Larvick on drums. They played a blend of rock and roll, R&B and the pop hits of the moment, and when bassist Denny Foote left the band to be replaced by...
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  • set off to the States to start their US tour. The success of "Hush" was a giant boost in America and from their first gigs they received all the attention...
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    the band to continue with American guitarist Tommy Bolin (of Billy Cobham and James Gang fame). As Jon Lord put it, "David Coverdale came up to me and said...
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  • Montreux 69 is a live album by English rock band Deep Purple, recorded 4 October 1969 in Montreux, released in 2006. It was recorded in the Montreux Casino...
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    2000-Watt Midas P.A. broke down and despite the best efforts of their roadie and managers it could not be made to perform properly. They tried, and performed...
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  • "Nobody’s Home", would be credited to all five band members. Gillan and Glover attempted to return matters to the all-for-one composition credits of the...
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  • need a little bit of down time to just think about stuff and try and be creative.'" Added Blackmore: "That really bugs me...going to the studio, 'right...
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  • Highway Star (song) (category All articles with dead external links)
    This song was born on a tour bus going to Portsmouth in 1971 when a reporter asked the band how they wrote songs. To demonstrate, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore...
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  • February 2017. Adams, Bret. "Deep Purple - Rapture of the Deep review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 21 February 2017. Shrivastava, Rahul (2005)...
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