I remember when Ian Gillan left Purple for the first time I thought the band was done. I kind of reluctantly bought Burn and liked it, but didn't love it. The shared vocals of Hughes/Coverdale and the newfangled, at least for Purple, synthesizer stylings of John Lord turned me off.
Over the years, I've come to appreciate it more and more, to the point where I now think it's the band's best. Stormbringer was a huge dropoff, for me, so Burn is kind of like a brief stop at Mount Everest before coming back down to sea level.
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