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Dave Ling

"It's almost like a template of how a hard rock band playing a rock'n'roll tune should be": Ian Paice's eight favourite Deep Purple songs

Ian Paice studio portrait.

Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice is the only member of the band who's been with them since they formed in 1968, but, having seen more than a dozen musicians come and go in front of him, he still approaches the band's catalogue with the enthusiasm of old.

"Go and listen to 1972 live album Made In Japan and glory in the fact that there were a bunch of kids who could back then capture all that craziness and still have a measure of control," he once told us. “Now listen to what we’re doing all these years later, and inside we’re still a bunch of kids. You don’t have to lose your love for making music."

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