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@historyrock_ This is the first album I bought as a kid and it remains my favorite to this day. From pace Truckin' to Highway Star, snd of course Smoke on the Water, it's perfection from beginning to end.

Machine Head is Deep Purple’s 6th studio album, released in March 1972 and considered one of the most important albums in hard rock and heavy metal. In December 1971, the band (the Mark II lineup featuring Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, and Ian Paice) traveled to Montreux, Switzerland, to record with the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio at the Montreux Casino. On December 4, they attended Frank Zappa’s concert at the casino when a fan fired a flare into the ceiling, sparking a fire that completely destroyed it. No one died, but chaos ensued. Claude Nobs (“Funky Claude”), director of the Montreux Jazz Festival, helped rescue people. From their hotel, the band watched the smoke rising over the lake. With no place to record, they tried the Le Pavilion theater but were evicted by the police due to noise complaints. Finally, they rented the empty Grand Hôtel and turned it into a makeshift studio: hallways and rooms serving as recording spaces, cables running through balconies and courtyards. They recorded from December 6 to 21, 1971, in a chaotic yet highly creative atmosphere. Roger Glover came up with the title “Smoke on the Water” upon seeing the smoke over the lake. Ian Gillan wrote the lyrics, which recount the events almost like a diary: the trip, the fire (“some stupid guy with a flare gun”), Funky Claude, and the finale at the Grand Hotel. Blackmore created the legendary four-note riff. The album is dedicated to Claude Nobs. Released in March 1972, it was an immediate success. “Smoke on the Water” became a hit in 1973, and the album reached the top of the charts in several countries. Machine Head captures Deep Purple’s raw energy under adverse circumstances and remains a cornerstone of rock more than fifty years later.

@clutch_engage @TheTennisLetter @showcasetennis He won't win. Always imploded, sadly. So much talent, but beats himself every time.

@TheTennisLetter @showcasetennis Poor Zverev, even if he wins everyone will put an asterisk next to it lol

For the first time in 9 consecutive Slams, a man not named Jannik Sinner or Carlos Alcaraz will win a Grand Slam title.

@Try2Get2Heaven @FoxNews It is. She already went back.

@FoxNews Wait, I thought America was horrible!?

IRISH ENTRANCE: Rosie O’Donnell quietly returned to the U.S. for a break from her self-imposed exile, which began when Trump took office again. "I just went to see my family. I wanted to see how hard it would be for me to get in and out of the country," she said.

@ih4teimbeciles @PopCrave She deserves none.

@_WordWorks @PopCrave True true 😭. I was just tryna spare her some kindness.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt for Vanity Fair.

@OneBadDude_ @JoeBiden 🤢

@JoeBiden 👇😍

Wishing you a peaceful and joyful Christmas Eve filled with love.

@Chicago1Ray @JoeBiden Hillary was right. Deplorable.

@JoeBiden Did the Autopen sign this greeting

@art_sleeps @archeohistories Journalists don't get "model" releases. Their subjects aren't models.

@archeohistories So if he didn't know her name, he never got a model release?

Sharbat Gula, ‘Afghan Girl’, 1985 vs 2002 at 30 years old. National Geographic’s most iconic photo... Gula was a student in an informal school at a refugee camp in Pakistan in 1984 when photographer Steve McCurry encountered her while on assignment. He took her portrait without recording her name, unaware that the image would later become one of the most recognized photographs in history. When the photo appeared on the cover of National Geographic in 1985, the girl’s piercing gaze came to symbolize the human cost of the Soviet Afghan War. For years, her identity remained unknown. Multiple attempts to locate her in the 1990s failed. In January 2002, a National Geographic team finally tracked her down in a remote region of Afghanistan. McCurry traveled to meet her again, nearly 18 years after the original photograph was taken. By then, Sharbat Gula was married and the mother of three daughters. She had never seen the photograph that made her famous until it was shown to her during that reunion. In 2021, as the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, Gula fled the country. She arrived in Rome under Italy’s evacuation program for Afghan citizens and was granted refugee status by the Italian government. National Geographic confirmed Gula’s identity in 2002 using iris recognition technology, one of the first times the method was used to authenticate the subject of a historic photograph. © National Geographic #archaeohistories

@ih4teimbeciles @PopCrave Your assumption that someone, anyone, loves her is so cute.

@PopCrave That’s the ROUGHHHHHHHHHEST 28 I’ve ever seen in my 30 years of existing 😭. Them fillers are not helping her at all, can someone that loves her PLEASE tell her to stop. She’s gonna look like Jocelyn Wildenstein by the time she hits 32😓.

@hill_julie75450 @peta But they won't, and the lack of adequate animal welfare laws allow it, so the improved outdoor shelter is the best the pet can hope for, sadly.

@peta I wish his owners would let him live inside with them, I'm sad thinking he might be cold at night and lonely. Very nice to build a better pen, but it doesn't equal being indoors and in direct company with a loving family.

Since his owners won’t let KJ live indoors, we built this new, larger pen to give him a safer, more comfortable living space.

@BHB_007 @steverob @TuckerCarlson "Liberal virus?" You think drug dealers have a political ideology? GOP policies that keep people poor and in misery are what fuel the desperation that drives the market for drugs as an escape.

The U.S. Marshals lugged Yonaidry Lascano Rosario, 24, in Bethel, ME this week. Rosario was a known member of the Trinitarios Gang. Mass wanted the gang banger for 2 counts of Assault to Murder (Armed), and other violent crimes. Bethel is a nice ski town in western Maine.

@steverob Lawrence is in the Merrimack River Valley. Middlesex is a county that encompasses Medford, Woburn, and south to Cambridge. There is no Middlesex Valley, as there is no Middlesex River in Massachusetts. If you're going to set yourself up as an expert, please get your facts right.

The Trinitarios are a Dominican gang, prominent in the Mass. Middlesex valley (aka Lawrence) and they control the fentanyl trade in Maine.

@DadOmega_ @BasedMikeLee @mtgreenee You say "be primaried" like it's a bad thing. He needs to be gone.

@BasedMikeLee Start speaking loudly against the war like @mtgreenee or be primaried. Don't let America fall into this Trap.

Fact check: TRUE

@LeftSideStrong5 @BasedMikeLee As is his Dear Leader.

@BasedMikeLee Mike Lee is a sociopath

@somethingrand77 Stairway. Not even close. Not even in the same universe.

Hotel California or Stairway to Heaven?

@kylegriffin1 Of course he hasn't. Can't expect decency from a felon.

Trump has not called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in the aftermath of the assassination of House DFL Leader Melissa Hortman. startribune.com/trump-attacks-…

@realBruceBallou Removing immigrants (they are not invaders) without due process is, you fascist.

Removing invaders from our country isn’t fascism you weirdo.

@realBruceBallou Invaders? Good lord. Stop watching Fox and learn something.

@LauraPowellEsq @seiucalifornia Yes. Watch the video. He was observing and recording.

@seiucalifornia “Observing.” 🙄

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And 750,000 SEIU workers are standing with him. seiuca.org/press-releases…

@realBruceBallou @seiucalifornia Your use of the American flag as a celebration of fascism is deeply disturbing to real patriotic Americans. Shame on you.

@seiucalifornia Got what he deserved! Get in the way of federal officials, and you’re going to get rolled up and put in the paddy wagon.

@TimOnPoint @seiucalifornia They are informing their union members that they have the right to protest peacefully and when on public land to record the activities of their government. Union members stand together. It's what makes us strong. Obviously, unity is not something you understand.