Purple patch: Medvedev meets his hard rock heroes | World news | The Guardian

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Dmitry Medvedev, a big heavy metal fan, has fulfilled a lifelong dream by getting to meet his favourite rock band, Deep Purple. Classic rock bands enjoyed immense popularity in the Soviet Union, even though Soviet press in Cold War times would describe such a music as an attempt at spreading West's "imperialist pop culture.The band members had tea with the Russian president at his residence outside Moscow on Tuesday, where he told them they had been his favourites since he was 12. Medvedev, 45, is known as a fan of rock bands such as Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, while his predecessor and current prime minister, Vladimir Putin, was reported to be a fan of the Beatles and Abba. "When I started listening to Deep Purple, I never imagined I would be sitting with you at this table," Medvedev, now 45, told the band in remarks televised Wednesday. He also revealed that as a DJ at his school in Leningrad, now St Petersburg, he would play rock music at discos, after first getting the approval of the Communist youth organisation. "We had quite a strict system then, you know," he said. Medvedev's 15-year-old son, Ilya, brought out his electric guitar and used the opportunity to jam with his dad's favorite band, RIA Novosti news agency reported.

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Was it not Kurt Corbain who could not containance having non-edgy, non-grungy fans? Or someone else saying something along the lines of "How dare you be a fan of me & my band? We despise you and everything you stand for..."

That's the power of capitalism - Infinite ability to absorb critics and turn them into money making ventures - Ask Manu Chao...

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I was going to say something like "How can you get more hardcore than the Russian government? They shoot people", but then so did Kurt Cobain...

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I am not sure that shooting people is the essence of Heavy metal... Well, I guess shooting people could be seen as machismo and manhood affirmation stuff... but when it's unharmed civilians you're shooting, it's kind of hard to portray it as John Wayne-like...

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