Fact #100709
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Short story:
Deep Purple play at Mother's, Birmingham, UK. DJ for the evening is John Peel.
Full article:
Neil Warnock (booking agent) : I can remember Deep Purple coming back from America and me booking them into Mothers in Birmingham, knowing it was a landmark date for them because they were considered to be a pop band. They'd had a big pop single in America which had flopped in England, so Deep Purple meant very little here. People thought even the name was a bit naff. But when they played at Mothers, everybody went, "Fuck me, this is great."
(Source : interview with Johnny Black, for Classic Rock, Nov 2013)
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(Source : interview with Johnny Black, for Classic Rock, Nov 2013)