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Let me clarify one thing, particularly after reading Concrete God's comment: one thing is to perform on a record, another to write the songs. There are two distinct levels of royalties in the music industry, one regarding who actually played on each song, and another related to who wrote the song. Let me make an obvious case: when DP covered the Beatles, JL did add his special touches and Ian Paice did show his unique style, still the song remained credited on DP's album only to Lennon/McCartney. Likewise, just think of the session guys who play on tons of records; if they received writing credits for interpreting a song in their unique way, the very same uinque way that got them the job, they would be the richest people on Earth - yet, they do not, of course.

Having said that, what is confusing to many is that DP shared writing credits equally from 68 to 76, and some assume that therefore all contributed equally. It is not like that, to the point that one of the conditions that Ritchie set when re-uniting in 84, was that members should only get writing credits for the songs they actually helped to write - and on Perfect Strangers, by pure coincidence, the tracks where Lord and Paice appear are a grand total of 2. Why did they initially split 5-way? Because it would have meant that the writers in the band would have been paid twice the money of the non-writers, and it would have created a lot of arguments between band members who were, at the time, roughly on equal terms in terms of popularity. At the time of the reunion, this had all changed and neither JL nor IP had the power to keep that anymore.
Now, if we accept that 3 people wrote the bulk of it, then, given their roles, it is safe to assume that Ritchie's role was dominant in the music, Ian's in the lyrics and vocal melodies and Roger helped both out and refined ideas.

This is how I see it.

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VleeMouse wrote:


The songs were credited to, not written by.

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This is important to remember. The fact that all MK II songs from IR to WDWTWA were credited to B,G,G,L,P it does not mean that they were written by them.

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So you mean Blackmore wrote the lyrics..? And that Glover didn't come up with riffs and ideas to Speed King and Smoke just to mention a few?
That Lord didn't have this special touch in the music that made it .. deep purple?
That Paice don't have his own unique sound to make him The Purple drummer?
That really it was a one man show..?

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But who on earth said any of the above? The vast majority of the songs in MK II were written by Blackmore, Gillan and Glover, a fact recognised in many interviews by JL.
Where have I ever said that DP was a one man show?

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Clearly so. JL cannot be given writing credit for sounding like JL. And the same with IP, he can only sound like IP on the drums because that is who he is.
To claim that they were in any part responsible for writing a song because they played on it is not correct.
It was my understanding also that the lyrics were shared between IG and RG.

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