“I've seen parties behind the Iron Curtain that were just too wild to describe.” Deep Purple's Ian Gillan recalls the debauchery and hedonism of the Swinging Sixties

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Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan has shared his memories of the hedonism and debauchery he witnessed as a younger man in the 1960s. 

The topic arose during a [paywalled] interview with The Independent, in reference to the lyrics of new Deep Purple song Now You're Talkin', on the band's recently released =1 album. The opening verse of the song finds Gillan picking his way through a wild, libidinous party, with lyrics such as “There's a whole load of bodies kinda hard to tell, could be a menage-a-many from Hell. And I don't know who's doing what to whom, but surely they are doing it well...”