Wednesday 1st March 2023
Difficulty: Hard
Deep Purple (Quiz #103)
Deep Purple Mark II in 1969. Left to right: Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Paice, Jon Lord, Roger Glover, Ian Gillan. (Public domain)
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in London in 1968. They have had several line-up changes and an eight-year hiatus, but still perform today.
1. Who is the only member of Deep Purple who has served in every line-up since the band’s inception in 1968?
2. Which Deep Purple song was written on the band's bus to a show in Portsmouth, in answer to a journalist's question: "How do you go about writing songs"?
3. Deep Purple was recognised by The Guinness Book of World Records as the "globe's loudest band" for a concert at the London Rainbow Theatre in 1972. How many of these statements about the concert are true?
- the sound reached 117 dB
- Ian Gillan (the singer) suffered from headaches for several weeks afterwards
- part of the theatre's ceiling fell down
- three members of the audience fell unconscious
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