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Deep Purple Ain’t Schizoid!

Maybe Just a little little Loony...

December 1, 1972
Lester Bangs

Deep Purple?

Who?

You know, they did that cover of Billy Joe Royal’s “Hush,” turned it into a manic speedrun hit back in ’68.

Naww, that’s somebody else. You’re trying to think of the band that recorded that bombastic atrocity, “Concerto for Group and Orchestra,” with the Royal Philharmonic.

NO! No! Deep Purple ain’t classical music, Deep Purple is one of the most honcho energy-blasts around, they been puttin ’ out nothin ’ but sheer lava-lanches of sockout rock’n’roll since their first album, Deep Purple in Rock!

(Fade to punchout' sounds. Who are these Deep Purples, anyway?)

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