"Smoke on the Water" dates back to '72, and since the Deep Purple certainly didn't expect this song to become a huge hit, it was released as a single only about a year later in '73. The piece seems to have been written by Roger Glover, the bassist, after he had a dream where he saw smoke coming out of the lake near the hotel they were staying at. It reflected a real event in which an audience member at Uncle Frank and his Mothers' concert fired a flare gun that caused a fire in Montreux, Switzerland, in '71. At least that's how the legend goes, and nothing...
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
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