If there is a top five of best music bands in all music history....Deep Purple would be for sure in the rankings.

If there is a top three of best instrumental songs in all music history...Son of Alerik would be on first place...

I struggled myself to find out at least one meaning about alerik...and his son, but with minimum success. All i found out in these 5 years I've listened to the song is about the "sound" of alerik more than the son of...

Inspite of my subjective feelings about this song,anyone must acknowledge the skills and the tremendous talent of Ritchie Blackmore. And the never ending instrumental effort of Paice, Lord, Glover, Gillan, Morse. This is part of the eleventh album of the band, in 1984.

Listening to such piece of art i sometimes wonder how come i find a 24 years old song so brilliant...the answer is probably more complicated than the meaning of this song.

in my soul...it's number one