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Deep Purple: commercial without compromise

Richard Green, New Musical Express, 27 March 1971

FOR DEEP Purple fans the end of an era is approaching. After late April or May, familiar numbers like 'Speed King', 'Child In Time' and 'Wring That Neck' will almost certainly disappear from the group's repertoire, to be replaced by new additions. And the new additions will be taken from the highly important project on which Purple is now working — the heir to Deep Purple In Rock.

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