This edition of Hit Story is all about the incredible string of events that surround the legend of the Deep Purple classic "Smoke on the Water". It all began with an idiot… who brought a flare gun to a concert. It was 1970. Deep Purple was in Montreux, Switzerland to record an album. They were excited to begin work but the theater they had rented was burned to the ground.
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