"We took a huge financial risk. We had no financial backing but we had something that's missing nowadays; lots of trust. The biggest tour of the early 70s was Deep Purple In Rock. The contract for the German concerts for Deep Purple I drew up in a cafe ÅL in Mendelssohnstrasse in Frankfurt. With their manager, it was done in no time; you get these guarantees, we get this percentage; done! Two copies, two signatures, bam! People were saying ‘This was the time that music should be free. Nobody sho

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