Rod Evans, original lead singer of hard-rocking Deep Purple, walked away from the music business in the late 1970s. He didn’t even show up for the ceremony in 2016 when the band was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Evans’ post-Purple career took some strange twists, including signing on for a bogus and disastrous “New Deep Purple” tour and co-founding Capricorn-recording artists Captain Beyond. Fiona McQuarrie examines Deep Purple’s and Evans’ musical past for PKM
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In 72, Alice Cooper and Bowie grew ever more theatrical while the riffs of Iommi, Blackmore and co got bigger. 50 years on, we celebrate the best from a banner year for rock