Tonight’s featured artist were touring and recording their next album simultaneously. Over fatigued and thanks to the Rolling Stones Mobile studio still recording despite the commercial success of the album that was produced on tour it was the beginning of the end for this band. Any guess who this mismanagement lost us??

Over working their groups seems to be the British way. But this time it wasn’t the Beatles is was Deep Purple who fell to the pressure to keep going. In an interview supporting the release of the 1984 Mark II Deep Purple comeback album ‘Perfect Strangers’, Ian Gillan stated that fatigue and management conflicts had a lot to do with the breakup of the band:

“We had just come off 18 months of touring, and we'd all had major illnesses at one time or another. Looking back, if they'd have been decent managers, they would have said, 'All right, stop. I want you to all go on three months' holiday. I don't even want you to pick up an instrument.' But instead they pushed us to complete the album on time. We should have stopped. I think if we did, Deep Purple would have still been around to this day”

Fittingly since their last concert was in Osaka Japan, here is Deep Purple with tonight’s featured song ‘Woman From Tokyo’

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