Deep Purple: Burn
Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 16 February 1974
NEW LINE-UP time, folks. As all you well-informed young people will have been aware for nigh on a full season, Ian Gillan has left to be replaced by David Coverdale, and Glenn Hughes from Trapeze is now in Roger Glover's chair.
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