Deep Purple

Date:

Saturday, January 25, 1975

Venue:

George Duncan's Farm

Location:

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

British hard rock band Deep Purple went home with $60,000 (2022:$450,000), while most local groups went home empty handed. AC/DC allegedly refused to play after Deep Purple roadies provoked a fistfight with them. According to Deep Purple's lead vocalist, David Coverdale, "Apparently, a young Aussie band had jumped onstage, plugged into our gear and started playing! Well, all hell broke loose, from what I was told. Our roadies (big buggers to a man) wrestled with the young band to get them off our equipment and off the stage. Chaos and frolics ensued"/ Angus Young relates that there were incidents both before and after Deep Purple played.

Blues Rock, Classic Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Metal, Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Rock, British, Album Oriented Rock (AOR), Hammond Organ, and Proto Prog.

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