The band wrote in a post on Instagram: “A lifelong fan of hard rock and heavy metal, Takaichi has often named Deep Purple as one of her favourite bands.<\/p>\n
“She even told the group she bought their Machine Head album back in grade school.”<\/p>\n
Formed in England in 1968, Deep Purple became known as one of the “unholy trinity” of British heavy metal bands, alongside Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin.<\/p>\n
Perhaps their most renowned hit – Smoke on the Water – came on their 1971 album Machine Head.<\/p>\n
Takaichi played keyboard in a Deep Purple tribute band before picking up the drums while at university – after which she was known to carry several sets of drumsticks due to a tendency to break them during intense performances.<\/p>\n
The visit will have been a welcome respite for the prime minister, who has faced increasingly strained diplomatic ties with China, rising prices and a sluggish economy since coming to office in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The band wrote in a post on Instagram: “A lifelong fan of hard rock and heavy metal, Takaichi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-387111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}