![]() Montreux already had the reputation of a jazz city, after a successful start of the annual jazz festival five years earlier, and the world stars of rock music (among others Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Deep Purple and Queen) were regular visitors. It became one of the biggest hits of rock music.ĭeep Purple plays regularly in Montreux, and Smoke on the Water is the anthem in the rebuilt Casino and Montreux. This event inspired them to compose Smoke on the Water on their new album. ![]() The band members had seen the thick clouds of smoke on the water of Lake Geneva from nearby. The recordings took place in the Grand Hotel in the village of Territet instead, a village near Montreux. The Rock band Deep Purple had rented the Rolling Stones mobile studio to record their new album Machine Head in the Casino the following day. The two thousand visitors and the band managed to get out safely, but the instruments and equipment were lost. The Casino burned to the ground in a few hours. Initially, visitors thought it was a practical joke, related to Arthur Brown’s song Fire (1968) and Deep Purple’s song Fireball (1971).īut it was a real fire. ![]() On 4 December 1971, fifty years ago, at 16.20 in the afternoon, the fire alarm went off in the famous Casino.įrank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention were finishing their last song when singer Howard Kaylan called out, “Fire, ladies and gentlemen”. One of the greatest success stories in the history of rock music was written in Montreux (canton of Vaud) in Switzerland. ![]()
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