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Deep Purple: The Smashing-Up Bit Is Valid!
Originally published in Melody Maker, 26 September 1970
When Deep Purple smashed up their equipment on a TV show recently, there 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.
How do Deep Purple react to this outburst and why do they indulge in tactics, once the prerogative of the Who?
Cream: Background to a Break-Up
by: Chris Welch
Cream are breaking up. The world-famous trio that features Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Jack Bruce are to go separate ways in the autumn. Said Eric at his Chelsea home this week: “I’ve been on the road seven years and I’m going on a big holiday.”
It was two years ago, in July 1966, that three of Britain’s most outstanding instrumentalists electrified the blues world by joining forces. It was two years ago that Ginger Baker rang me to say, “Me and Jack are forming a group with Eric.”
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by: Chris Welch
published: November 26, 2008
in column: Classic Vantage
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