Singapore 2004 - photo: Li Xi

Bananas World Tour - Asia

After a very succesful North American tour, Deep Purple took off for the Far East. The atmosphere at the initial Japanese show was ecstatic with audience reactions surprising even the band.
In China however, the band were brought back down to earth by authority clamp downs. One report said, "the police took over the first show and would not let any fans onto the floor near the band, so the audience was 75 feet away from the front of the stage. Very strange."
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Rasmus Heide, reviews editor - with thanks to Akiko for translation work