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Deep Purple Shares Accidentally Pandemic-Appropriate Song 'Man Alive'

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Deep Purple didn't quite plan to put out a song including references to the end of humanity in the middle of a pandemic, but "Man Alive" -- premiering below from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame troupe's upcoming Whoosh!

album -- certainly feels of its time, if a bit extreme. "It's an abstract concept," frontman and lyricist Ian Gillan tells Billboard about the prog-flavored track. "There was an apocalyptic quality to the (music of) 'Man Alive', and the idea developed lyrically from there -- the scenario of this event that took place and everyone got killed, and you get this picture of 'all creatures great and small grazed on blood red soil, and grass that grows on city streets.' So it's a post-humanity scenario.

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