5 by Ludwig van Beethoven, and that “I owe him a lot of money”. Ranked number 426 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest songs of all time the song is one of Deep Purple’s biggest hits released on their 1972 album “Machine Head”.īlackmore later said that the main power chord riff is an interpretation of inversion of Symphony No.

He spent 12 minths in jail and later became a US Senator.” The song The crew caught him, beat him and sodomized him and held him for police. “He said he pushed me because he wanted me to play Peaches en Regalia and his girlfriend was in love with me and his dog told him to do it. One leg healed an inch shorter than the other. I had a gash in my chin, a hole in the back of my head, a broken rib, and a fractured leg.

“Yes the band thought I was dead…My head was over on my shoulder, and my neck was bent like it was broken. The same week as the fire in Montreux, Some guy pushed you off the stage as well. Those sons of bitches owe me some money.” You seem to have had a lot of trouble with the fans back then.

Was that you running out screaming and pushing old ladies and little children to the ground to escape? It was a bad scene but at least Deep Purple got a hit song out of the deal. When that dummy with a flare gun burned the place to the ground. What Frank Zappa said about Deep Purple’s “Smoke On The Water” So the last time I saw you was 1971 in Montreux, Switzerland. In an interview with Madhouse magazine back in 1988, Frank Zappa talked about the Deep Purple hit song and recalled that day at the Montreux Casino.

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