# Mentions of Deep Purple in media
**URL:** https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/mentions-of-deep-purple-in-media/134
**Category:** Deep Purple and family
**Tags:** trainspotting
**Created:** [August 6, 2026, 6:03am UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/mentions-of-deep-purple-in-media/134 "2026-08-06T06:03:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Stathis](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/Stathis)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 6:03am UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/mentions-of-deep-purple-in-media/134/1 "2026-08-06T06:03:43Z")
Trainspotting time. I will start off with a mention in one of Jeremy Clarkson’s books. Hope this works.
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### Author:  [@KarinVerndal1104](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/KarinVerndal1104)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 8:19am UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/mentions-of-deep-purple-in-media/134/2 "2026-08-06T08:19:59Z")
Jeremy Clarkson was my favourite in Top Gear!
I remember Danny Baker - fun guy.
Googled JC and he prefers progressive bands like Genesis, but on the other hand he also likes Steely Dan, so all in all: an ok guy ☺
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### Author:  [@AlmostHuman](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/AlmostHuman)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2026, 10:05pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/mentions-of-deep-purple-in-media/134/3 "2026-08-07T22:05:52Z")
And there’s also a Top Gear episode where the “Swiss time is running out”:
[https://youtu.be/3-Iy6CfeePw?t=263](https://youtu.be/3-Iy6CfeePw?t=263)
There’s a Ferrari involved as well winning the race (“The Rolling truck stones” was booked elsewhere it seems).
Cheers
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### Author:  [@Stathis](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/Stathis)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2026, 6:56am UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/mentions-of-deep-purple-in-media/134/4 "2026-08-08T06:56:00Z")
From Stephen King’s non-fiction book “On Writing”.
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### Author:  [@Stathis](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/Stathis)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2026, 8:30am UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/mentions-of-deep-purple-in-media/134/5 "2026-09-20T08:30:19Z")
In the 500th issue (print, mind you!) of the Greek Metal Hammer magazine, there is a list of the 100 most important hard/heavy albums as voted by the mag’s readership.
Of interest to us :
No. 13 : Dio “Holy Diver”
No. 22 : Rainbow Rising
No. 43 : Machine Head
No. 51 : Deep Purple In Rock
No. 71 : Whitesnake 1987
No. 87 : Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow
The top 10 is occupied by the usual suspects (i.e. Maiden, Metallica, Sabbath etc.)
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### Author:  [@redwhite](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/redwhite)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2026, 9:59am UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/mentions-of-deep-purple-in-media/134/6 "2026-09-20T09:59:30Z")
August 1st, the German television channel ARD broadcasts the 1st stage of the women’s Tour de France, Reporter is Florian Naß, born in 1968, co-reporter Clara Koppenburg, active road cyclist and born in 1995. The peleton is near Montreux, the reporter talks about the legendary jazz festival and then asks
FN: “Does Smoke on the water tell you something?”
CK: “No, it doesn’t tell me anything”
FN: “Well, you’re just a different generation” and he tells the story of the creation, as we all know it. “That was in 1971, you can be forgiven” 😉 (Link is limited to Germany)
> **[Sportschau Tour de France - 1. Etappe - Re-Live - hier anschauen](https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/sportschau-tour-de-france/1-etappe-re-live/das-erste/Y3JpZDovL3Nwb3J0c2NoYXUuZGUvMjRhM2I4Y2QtOGJhNS00Y2Q1LWFkNzMtZGZiNWE1YTNkMDli?startTime=12377)**
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> Die Tour de France Femmes beginnt in diesem Jahr in der Schweiz. Wer holt sich auf der 137 Kilometer langen Schleife rund um Lausanne das erste Gelbe Trikot? Die komplette Übertragung der ersten Etappe.
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### Author:  [@Fla76](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/Fla76)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2026, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/mentions-of-deep-purple-in-media/134/7 "2026-09-20T21:04:36Z")
Oh my God
https://www.youtube.com/embed/iI4hba2DROs?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque
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### Author:  [@Max](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/Max)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2026, 7:55am UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/mentions-of-deep-purple-in-media/134/8 "2026-09-25T07:55:55Z")
Well, I’m 62 and am still counting …