Newsletter
Three reprised the layout of no.2, heavily litho printed
with solid black ink, a smell I'm still addicted to. The (now
unavailable) info sheet was on Blackmore's time with Heinz
but news on Ritchie was still nigh on impossible to come by,
despite us having over 100 members by now including some in
America. We'd also been officially recognised by Oyster Records
(not that it did us much good, all they ever sent us was fan
mail for the band which I sent on at our expense for a time)
and the idea of making this a Rainbow / Deep Purple club was
mooted on the back page. The newsletter was still being typed
on anything we could scrounge with late news hand written at
the last minute. I can remember a real cheap portable I had
for some time which needed each key to be clobbered to get a
reasonable image. Money had been spent on a great A3 b/w poster
of Ritchie circa 1974 which was going for 25p plus postage at
6p! I can remember me and Ann sitting up late in her halls of
residence rolling them into tubes to mail out... (without inhaling).
The two guys who struggled
to cope with the weight of the Deep Purple fan club have finally
admitted defeat and are winding it up. I feel it's a pity that
no club exists for fans of earlier line-ups, and I've begun
to think about covering Deep Purple subjects with which Ritchie
was involved - ie. everything up to April 1975. It would be
nice to call this a joint Rainbow / Deep Purple fan club then.
I've also been in touch with Purple fan-clubs in Japan and Holland.
DEEP
PURPLE
Single
Releases
On
the record scene, 'Child in Time' is out in parts of Europe
as an EP, with 'Fireball' and 'Smoke..' on the other side.
Rainbow
supposedly have a new single out now, 'Man On The Silver Mountain'
OYR 3.
From
The Butterfly Ball comes the non-album 'Little Chalk
Blue' PUR 128, with Roger Glover on.
Deep
Purple will be issuing 'You Keep On Moving' as a taster
for the album. Chatting on Radio Luxembourg recently, Ian Paice
said that he rated the song as the classic number off the album.
