rock-'n'-roll

Young people of my acquaintance assure me that they do not mind working brutal 12-hour shifts, provided they do not have to listen to “Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul, I wanna get lost in your rock ‘n’ roll.”

"It was so obvious," Grace says, adding that on the music round the team would know all the answers and who featured on each track played on every genre, from 90s Hip Hop to Rock n Roll.

Its audience was expanding, and artistically, moving from what Anderson called its “dusty, Bakersfield country-fried” sound into “what was essentially an acid jazz band that was playing rock ’n’ roll.”

“After 50 years-plus of an incredible journey with you, with Deep Purple, with Whitesnake, Jimmy Page, the last few years it’s been very evident to me that it’s time, really, for me to hang up my rock ‘n’ roll platform shoes and my skin-tight jeans,” the 74-year-old singer said while holding a highball glass, in a video posted Thursday on YouTube.

After a few years with local bands in the late 1960s and early ‘70s, including a band that opened for Deep Purple, Coverdale stepped into the rock ‘n’ roll public’s eye when he took over as that band’s frontman in 1973.