Fascinating Fact #1: During Deep Purples British tour in the autumn of 1971, their manager invited members of the press to ride the tour bus with the band, allowing them to do interviews as they went. Ian Gillan recalls, A journalist on the bus asked Ritchie [Blackmore] how we wrote songs. Caught in a playful mood, Ritchie picked up his guitar and said Like this... and he started a rhythm, and I came in and ad-libbed words like Were on the road, were on the road, were a rocknroll band.... Once at the hall, they worked the rest of the parts out during the soundcheck and put it in the set that night. That song became the opening song on their next album, Machine Head: “Highway Star.”
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 00:04:13 +0000
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