Episodio 177: Deep Purple Perfect Strangers. Year 1987. English Version.
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00:00:20 - Today an emblematic, deep purple song from the 80s.
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00:00:47 - It's really a kind of a privilege to be, you know, 51 years old and being able to go out just still to have a voice.
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00:01:08 - Rod Halford.
00:01:09 - I think are useful just because of the fact that with what I try and do it's important to try and...
00:01:19 - Eric Clapton and Paul Stanley
00:01:21 - But piano was inconceivable, I mean, you can't, you can't just gotten by a piano or his guitar is much more accessible.
00:01:29 - I think I was very driven period.
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00:02:10 - This is Deep Purple's first studio album in the 1980s with the Mark Dose lineup.
00:02:20 - Rural Stowe, Vermont, USA, was the place for the reunion of these five English rock stars after being separated since the 1970s.
00:02:31 - This was not the kind of warm and fuzzy reunion where all was forgiven, but rather a meeting in which they had to learn to get along with a new maturity, avoiding conflicts and personal egos, which existed in the band and that led to their separation.
00:02:44 - The phrase, Perfect Strangers, seemed to fit. Despite this, the tracks for Perfect Strangers were composed and recorded in less than a month.
00:02:56 - One of the best songs is Perfect Stranger, in which Richie Blackmore proved that everything
00:03:02 - Jimmy Page could do with oriental skills he could effortlessly match.
00:03:05 - Perfect Strangers is an anthem, I can't say much here since this song is a masterpiece wherever you listen to it.
00:03:13 - It has everything, slow moments, fast moments, a guitar keyboard dual, very progressive and advanced parts for their time, which bands like Dream Later later took on in their songs today.
00:03:25 - The songs lyrics were written by lead singer Ian Gillan, who discussed the meaning in a period interview.
00:03:31 - Perfect strangers is a contradiction in terms, like an oxymoron, he said.
00:03:36 - That's pretty much how we described it.
00:03:39 - There was a lot of suspicion and worry and nervousness about getting back together and having a reunion, and when we all sat in the basement of this old house in Vermont, there was a wood fire and three feet of snow outside.
00:03:50 - We had a couple of beers, and no one started playing.
00:03:54 - Then Pace, he started playing and people started dancing, and there was a little random movement.
00:04:00 - In five minutes, everyone had a smile on their face.
00:04:06 - The promotional video of the song was heavily promoted on MTV, trying to show any images that the meeting was friendly on good terms.
00:04:15 - The band members were seen playing soccer, eating together, trying to connect to make a fantastic album.
00:04:25 - Fans received this album very well.
00:04:27 - Strangers was a top 5 hit in a handful of countries, including the UK, and entered the top 20 in the US, becoming Deep Purple's first platinum release since 1972's Machine Head.
00:04:39 - In support of Perfect Strangers was such a box office success that it had to be extended.
00:04:45 - In 1985, Lorde said that Deep Purple was outperforming every other rock star except
00:04:50 - Bruce Springsteen.
00:04:56 - Roger Glover, in an interview conducted in 1985, tells us,
00:05:27 - It's not so bad.
00:05:32 - And the feeling of being around the same table with the same five people was slightly unreal.
00:05:37 - It took me a little off guard. It was good.
00:05:41 - It felt like seeing your family again after being away for 11 years.
00:05:46 - Well, one of the reasons why I was a little apprehensive, because I thought, although I don't really subscribe to this view,
00:05:53 - Because I'm in the band, a lot of people would say, oh, Depot, they were an innovative band.
00:05:58 - They were the start of what's become heavy metal. They influenced a lot of people.
00:06:02 - I can understand that in a way, although I don't necessarily agree with it.
00:06:06 - And I thought that possibly if we got back together again in 1984, 85, people would be expecting too much from us.
00:06:14 - That the legend had become much bigger than the band ever was.
00:06:18 - And there would really be an anti-climax, would be in fact an anachronism.
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00:07:18 - Can you remember?
00:07:20 - Remember my name?
00:07:22 - As I float on the sky
00:07:24 - I can't remember
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00:07:44 - As I flow through your life
00:07:50 - A thousand notions I have known
00:07:55 - Oh, come
00:08:00 - Come, spirit of ice
00:08:05 - Oh, come
00:08:08 - Oh, my life
00:08:12 - I am the echo of your voice
00:08:28 - I am returning, the echo of appointed time
00:08:35 - A distant place to shine
00:08:40 - A thousand warriors I have known
00:08:45 - Oh, let me
00:08:50 - Let me speak to you
00:08:58 - All your land, all your life
00:09:03 - Shadows of another day
00:09:10 - If you hear me talking all the way
00:09:14 - You've got to understand it
00:09:16 - We must remain
00:09:19 - Perfect strangers
00:09:40 - I know I must remain inside this time where it's all gone
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00:10:30 - We'll be getting the night
00:10:40 - Fresh as light
00:10:43 - Your tears are lost in far away
00:10:50 - And if you hear me talking on the wind
00:10:54 - You've got to understand we must remain
00:10:59 - I'm a stranger you