Smoke on the Water: The Deep Purple Story

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ECW Press, Aug 20, 2004 - Biography & Autobiography - 402 pages
It is now 35 years since Deep Purple first came together and today — 14 musicians, 17 albums, and millions of record sales later — the group remains a monster. Smoke on the Water is the first book in more than 20 years to tell the story of this remarkable band, from their grandiose inception in 1968 to the release of their latest album in 2003. Drawing from candid interviews with band members, associates, and fans alike, it traces the group through some of the most turbulent times that any band has survived, placing the band’s own music in vivid context and illustrating just how profoundly this one group helped change the world.

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Contents

Chapter 1 Absolute Beginners
1
Chapter 2 On a Carousel
19
Chapter 3 Hush Were Recording
37
Chapter 4 The Band Has Flown
51
Chapter 5 A New Episode in Rock
64
Chapter 6 Black Nights in White Satin
90
Chapter 7 A Strange Kind of Fireball
111
Chapter 8 Smoking Heads Out of Control
125
Chapter 13 A New Wave to Surf
209
Chapter 14 As the Colors Fade
224
Chapter 15 The NotSoPerfect Strangers
240
Chapter 16 Inadvertent Deliberation
254
Chapter 17 Farewell to Blackmores Day
269
Chapter 18 Playing in Morse
283
Chapter 19 Any Fule Kno What?
298
Discography
323

Chapter 9 Burned and Mistreated
146
Chapter 10 A Rainbow After the Storm
164
Chapter 11 Come Taste the Bands
177
Chapter 12 An Invitation to the Ball
195
Further Reading
386
Index
389
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Dave Thompson is a highly experienced author with close to 20 years of high quality work and over 80 books to his name. His biography of rock star Kurt Cobain, Never Fade Away, sold over 250,000 copies, and he has written recent encyclopedias of alternative rock, funk, reggae and calypso, glam rock, punk, and pop (his reggae volume won an arsc award in 2003). In 1998, Dave was ranked one of rock’s five foremost authors in the respected U.K. music magazine MOJO. He splits his time between London, England, and Seattle, Washington.