Deep Purple: The Smashing-Up Bit Is Valid!
Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 26 September 1970
WHEN DEEP PURPLE smashed up their equipment on a TV show recently, here were howls of protest throughout the land. A flood of complaints hit MM's Mailbag, and there were rumbles of discontent from Caithness to Beccles.
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