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The doorstop-of-a-book
Houston Press has a quite in-depth (for a mainstream publication) review of Martin Popoff’s book Seven Decades of Deep Purple: An Unofficial History.
Like some of his previous books, Popoff waltzes chronologically through the band’s discography as the spine for telling the story. What makes Seven Decades of Deep Purple likely more aimed toward the hardcore fan though is this. By the book’s midway-point, the narrative has already gone through the band’s ‘70s heyday and even up to 1983’s great Mk. II reunion effort Perfect Strangers.
That leaves the entire second half concentrating on their output from that time forward, covering records that probably are not in a lot of folks’ collections like The Battle Rages On…, Abandon, Bananas, and Rapture of the Deep.
Which is perfectly fine with us. 😉
Read more in Houston Press.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
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