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The Seventies: 1970
Swedish channel SVT is broadcasting a new 10-part series called The Seventies. Deep Purple are prominently features in the first episode — 1970 — which was shown on July 17 and now you can watch it online at svtplay.se. Unless you think you’ll enjoy Joe Tempest talking in Swedish, you can skip straight to around 6:15 into the episode. A contemporary interview with Ian Gillan starts at around 7:45 and continues through 17:40, after which point the show moves on to other subjects. Of Purple-related interest is also the appearance of The Flowerpot Men (just the singers) on Beat Club around the 23:55 mark.
Thanks to Nigel Young for the info.
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You forgot to mention the 4-second-appearance of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ at 01:10 🙂
July 23rd, 2010 at 06:40Ian gillan is amazing man on the earth…i am very like ian gillan…untill the name my son is gillan.i love you ian..i wanna meet you..God always Bless you..
July 23rd, 2010 at 14:02Yes dP got great coverage.Great!
July 23rd, 2010 at 15:00Wow, very different from the accepted history of the early seventies music scene; Led Zepplin the biggest and most popular group followed by a gaggle of groups vying for the second spot. Good show and poor Tony Burrows, that had to suck!
July 23rd, 2010 at 18:04Dear Ian
Please quit telling lies, will you?
I love you man but…….
It is so demeaning, so saddening….
Must say I feel sorry that David and Glenn harvested the comfort with the plane and all while you sweated for that!!!!!
Well. I suppose there will be no final hurrah for MK 2 next year.
Instead you and the so called DP will squeeze the last penny out the name or maybe Satriani is writing right now to give you an album next year?
Yours truly, Mark
July 25th, 2010 at 15:22In Sweden during the years 1968-1975 Deep Purple had 3 albums on Kvällstoppen, a list based on sales. Led Zep had 1 album on the same list during that period.
July 25th, 2010 at 18:06DP also had something like 5 albums on the US Billboard 100 in 1973…I remember rerading that they were the biggest selling band in the world that year:)
July 27th, 2010 at 15:45I belive all dP albums, with the exeption of In Rock (11) and Come taste the band (16) went top ten in sweden between 1970-1975.
July 28th, 2010 at 09:09Fireball, WDWTWA and Burn went to no 1. And In Rock continued to sell year after year of course, I only got it in 1974 as did many of my friends.
@8
July 31st, 2010 at 01:45And if i remember correctly “the House of Blue Light” went straight in at number one on it´s first week of release in Sweden. The first hard rock album to ever do so in our country, i read somewhere. “Perfect Strangers” entered the charts at no 3 on it´s first week. How high did it go, anyone remember?
(Those were the days, eh!)
@9 PS never got any higher than no 3, but it stayed in the top 20 for over twenty weeks or so. Both sold close to 100000 copies!
August 1st, 2010 at 18:46in every Ian Gillan interview since 1994, he claims they were playing smaller and smaller venues with no ticket sales on the Battle Rages On Tour.
I have a few recordings – both audio and video – of the Battle Rages On Tour and it sounds and looks like there’s a pretty good audience around.
Does anybody know what venues/shows Gillan is referring to when he claims only 40% of the audience showed up?
thanks
August 12th, 2010 at 17:31Mark
Be careful Mark
The Gillan street team might want to stone you.
Cheers, Mark
August 13th, 2010 at 21:15Nobodies perfect…. take what you see & hear with a grain of salt. Memories change with mood & circumstances.
April 1st, 2017 at 12:59