Deep Purple: Nobody's Purple
Pete Makowski, Metal Hammer, 20 June 1988
"Rock'n'Roll is the perfect art which conceals art, that satisfying spontaneity which can be achieved only by taking intense thought"
– Kathleen Cleaver (paraphrased)
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