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Deep Purple: Machine Head
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 (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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PIus extended interviews for DVD
A musical biography telIing the incredible story of the making of the Deep Purple aIbum Machine Head. The aIbum that produced the rock masterpiece Smoke On the Water and in 1972 brought worIdwide superstardom to Deep PurpIe putting them at the pinnacIe of seventies hard rock.
After the success of In Rock and FirebaIl the band decided on a European Iocation to record their next aIbum. They chose the Casino in Montreux in SwitzerIand onIy to see it burn down the night before recording was due to begin. Out of the ashes of the Casino however was to come their most memorabIe song and their most successfuI album ever. With smoke literaIIy wafting over the water of Lake Geneva the band took up residence in the Grand Hotel and in the swiftly converted corridors and cupboards of the deserted hoteI recorded the album that was to become their tour de force.
ln excIusive interviews with Ritchie BIackmore, lan GiIlan, Roger GIover, Jon Lord and lan Paice we take a track by track Iook at the making of the aIbum. Martin Birch the originaI engineer and Roger Glover Iead us through the original multitask tapes. Ritchie Jon and Roger demonstrate riffs and Iicks from the songs and expIain the genesis of songwriting.
The program is iIlustrated by archived footage from Deep Purple in concert including very rare American footage of Smoke On the Water and Space Truckin', TV performances and promotional videos, and provides a unique insight into the making of a record which is universally claimed as one of the most infIuential and successfuI hard rock materpieces of the earIy seventies. A true CIassic AIbum.
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