The first edition of the Hot Wacks guide to bootleg LP and CDs in 1992 detailed 88 Deep Purple releases. Today, that total has probably multiplied by 10. ►
“I was in Milan doing a photo session for my European label,” Ian Gillan recalls, “and there were lots of girls in the studio. Then somebody put the album on quietly in the background. Nobody was listening to it, but you could hear it in the air. ►