Deep Purple

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...Free, Ten Years After and Deep Purple. Zeppelin didn't release singles, and they were so cool that sometimes they didn't even put their name on the album sleeve either. Sabbaff released one great single and loads of filler. Free issued a few stormin' singles before disintegrating. Ten Years Who? didn't exactly stay the course. Deep Purple had their membership wrangles as well - the classic Mk II line-up of 1970-72, the one which produced most of ...
...millennium. 'The Best of Deep Purple' (1998), the last (so far) in a long line of compilations, doesn't give you all the choice moments on one CD. There are compromises, in the shape of severely edited tracks and total omissions. But short of forking out a three-figure sum for the entire back catalogue and getting all the duds as well as the goodies, or burning your own, it's the nearest you'll get. Three of these tracks are the all-defining Purple ... Read review

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Deep Purple are amazingly famous for one particular song they composed. Come on lets hear it, SMOKE ON THE WATER. This is probably the most simple song that you could ever play on the guitar, and is always (or mostly) the song that you will first learn on the guitar, no matter on your starting skill level. If you cant play smoke on the water... you cant play guitar, its as simple as that! I really liked the vocals too, they were nice and harsh, ... Read review