50 years of “Smoke on the Water”: A riff of the centuries

by time news

I have no idea what the guy was thinking who fired off a signal pistol at Frank Zappa’s concert in the Casino in Montreux, Switzerland in December 1971: Certainly not writing music history – and yet that was exactly the result of this unbelievable stupidity: the building burned to to the foundation walls, and clouds of smoke drifted across Lake Geneva – and Deep Purple had a pro…

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