| 280 stuffed pages offering an exhaustive and detailed timeline of Purple milestones, pulled together by Martin Popoff. Includes similar 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 to add to the entries, turning the book into a quasi-oral history but loaded with factual matter and an absolute tons of awesome archival/historical images. This is about FAMILY. So the text weaves in and out of the story of Purple proper, the dastardly diaries of Rainbow, Whitesnake, Ian Gillan Band, Gillan, Paice Ashton Lord, all the solo projects, guest slots, even related bands like Captain Beyond, Warhorse, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ Superstar, Bedlam, Elf, Episode Six, Outlaws, and Pussy. And, wouldja believe, even MORE!? (2011) |