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Deep Purple Returns!

Sylvie Simmons, Creem, March 1985

DEEP PURPLE. Two words that mean so much to so many. It's been 13 years since DP – the DP, Gillan, Glover, Paice, Lord and Blackmore; Evans, Simper, Hughes, Bolin and Coverdale were mere historical twitches in the great cosmic scheme of things – fell apart.

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