Music History #2: "Smoke on the Water"
“ roll of tobacco on the Water”Written by Ian Gillan , Ritchie Blackmore , Roger Glover , Jon Lord , Ian Paice ( 1972)Originally performed by Deep Purple The Music It ’s the Riffian that will not drop dead . The heavy metal version of “ Chopsticks . ” Somewhere at this very minute , in a suburban service department or euphony store , there ’s a child with an electric guitar plonking out those opening bank bill – “ Dun - dun - duuun ....