“I woke up with those words, ‘Smoke on the Water’, on my lips. I mentioned it to Ian and he said, ‘Sounds like a drug song, we better not do that’”: Deep Purple just played Smoke on the Water on the lake that inspired it – with actual fire in the sky
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The band, which now features guitarist Simon McBride, recently returned to Montreux, the site of the 1971 casino fire depicted in the lyrics of their iconic track