Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan: ‘Everyone’s seen Spinal Tap and that’s pretty much what happens’
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The frontman of the heavy rock monsters talks to Mark Beaumont about booze, the sexual wildness of the Sixties, living out Spinal Tap moments, and the band’s new album