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A site called Blue News carries a feature on Splat! with quotes from Ian and Ian. It attributed to the Swiss press agency Keystone-SDA and apparently based around an interview that both gave to DPA. It is dated today, July 29, 2026, but reads like was written some time before the album release (July 3).
A spectacular start, just like over 50 years ago
On “Splat!”, the British band gets off to a flying start. The furious hard rock track “Arrogant Boy” opens the album with a bang. “There’s absolutely no warning,” says Paice with satisfaction. “Bang! It kicks off right away.” An incredible 55 years after the smash hit “Highway Star,” Deep Purple are kicking things off with similar intensity.
According to frontman Ian Gillan (80), the song is about populism. “There’s a lot of aggressive politics right now,” the singer explains. “I don’t like either left-wing or right-wing politics, because I see both as a stalemate. The pendulum constantly swings back and forth between left and right; governments come and go, but fundamentally, little changes.”
In preparation for the album, lead lyricist Gillan wrote stories last summer to serve as the basis for the lyrics. “Of course, it’s impossible to pack everything into a single song. So I could easily have written 20 different songs titled ‘Jessica’s Bra,’ each with different events and different lyrics.”
Read more in Blue News.
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