title: Smoke on the Water: The Deep Purple Story
author:  Dave Thompson 
description: ""If you have any kind of rock 'n' roll reference library, chances are you own at least one book by Dave Thompson."
zlib_text: ALSO BY THE AUTHOR
  
  _A Dangerous Fortune_  
  _Night over Water_  
  _The Pillars of the Earth_  
  _Lie Down with Lions_  
  _On Wings of Eagles_  
  _The Man from St. Petersburg_  
  _The Key to Rebecca_  
  _Triple_  
  _Eye of the Needle_  
  _A Place Called Freedom_  
  _The Third Twin_
  
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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, organizations, and
  incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used
  fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, organizations, or persons
  living or dead is entirely coincidental.
  
  “Smoke on the Water.” Words and music by Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore, Ian
  Gillan, Roger Glover, and Ian Paice (Deep Purple) © 1972, reproduced by
  permission of B. Feldman & Co. Ltd. trading as Hec Music, London WC2H 0EA.
  
  “There but for Fortune” by Phil Ochs, © 1963 Barricade Music ASCAP, quoted by
  kind permission of Barricade Music, a division of Rondor Music International.
  
  Copyright © 1998 by Ken Follett
  
  All rights reserved. 