Deep Purple: "The Stones Are Out Of Date" — Ian
Keith Altham, Record Mirror, 10 July 1971
DEEP PURPLE are the band who made it in spite of the critics, the press and most of the mass media and, for that alone, they should command more respect than resentment.
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