Smoke on the Water
by Deep Purple
Featuring one of the most famous riffs in rock history, this song tells the true story of a fire that burnt down the Montreux Casino in Switzerland in 1971. Deep Purple was there to record their album Machine Head while the casino was closed for the winter. The night before recording began, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention played a show at the …
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