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Deep Purple

Speed King

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  • Hard Rock
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1970
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“Speed King” is a song by British hard rock band Deep Purple from their 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock. The song is one of the loudest from the album, and featured some of the band’s greatest amount of improvisation in a studio recorded song, on both the original version and later live versions across the years. A live version from “In Concert” was released as the B-side of the US release of the single “Black Night”. “Speed King” is not a cover, however many of its lyrics are borrowed from popular oldies, including “Good Golly Miss Molly”, “Tutti Frutti”, and “The Battle of New Orleans”. The song was the first song to be written by vocalist Ian Gillan, who wrote the lyrics by writing down a mix of lines from Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Chuck Berry... Read on...

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