Deep Purple

Here are the other giants: along with the Zep, there they are from their debut until '76 with the unfortunate Tommy Bolin... Here, there would be enough material for a book to describe the underrated albums of Mark 1, filled with covers but splendid nonetheless. Then with the arrival of Gillan and Glover, in three years and four albums, they make rock history; I also adore Mark 3 with those two young guns of opposite talents but great Coverdale and Hughes, who with "Burn" and "Mistreated" produce one of the most beautiful albums and tracks of all time. And I repeat, it was the year with Bolin, with the band already falling apart, him and Glenn destroyed by drugs but capable—on the nights when they were vegetative—of extraordinary live performances... Perfect Stranger is also beautiful at the return of the historic Mark... Then, well, you age, but even now seeing live the passion and tenacity they put in is exciting—long live Purple!!! And then, guys, who had all together Blackmore, as brilliant as he was odious, John Lord the master, and that train of Ian Paice? Hats off!!!