Smoke on the water?’ “No idea what it meant. I mentioned it to Ian (Gillan) and he said, ‘Yeah, sounds like a drug song, we better not do that’.” Glover said their fans were “keeping ...

insisted bassist Geezer Butler at the time. “Ian Gillan’s joining Black Sabbath. So we won’t be playing Smoke On The Water!” How those words would come back to haunt Butler. But on paper ...

Often revisiting Purple’s Smoke On The Water at a time when that band ... from the band’s short but very sweet run. And although Ian Gillan admits that “things were not so good at the ...