| The second part of this excellent Deep Purple dissection by Martin Popoff. Brilliantly designed and absolutely jam-packed with graphics and pix, this tome comprises 296 pages offering an exhaustive and detailed timeline of Purple milestones from 1980 until 2011, including related bands, influences, cultural milieu, tour stuff, recording sessions, charts, singles, certification news, break-ups, personal stuff, trivia for miles, and lots and lots of artist quotes, turning the book into a quasi-oral history, but loaded with factual matter. As with the first installment, this book is about FAMILY. So the text weaves, in and out of the story of Purple proper, the dastardly diaries of Rainbow, Whitesnake, Gillan, Blackmore's Night, all the solo projects, guest slots, some MSG, Gary Moore, Black Sabbath and Black Country Communion, always with contextual explanation plus rare and very cool archival advertisements of shows 'n' records 'n' singles. 'N' MORE!!! (2011) |