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Fact #101856

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Deep Purple begin two weeks of touring in England with a show at The Top Rank, Birmingham, UK. At this point in their career, they are earning

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Jon Lord : I suppose you could say we are playing symphonic rock. We're classed, I guess, as an underground group in the States specially, but different in that we were a Top 40 group first, then went underground. There's a possibility that recognition is slow coming here because of that chart chart success. There is a snobbery in our underground scene, whatever people may say .... blues groups who don't like to admit that they'd like the success that comes from hit records. So they go on earning