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Really? Nobody knows this?
In 1971 Deep Purple was in Montreaux, site of the famous jazz festival, to do some recording. They were recording at the casino there with a mobile studio, where the Mothers of Invention were concurrently playing a show. As noted, "some stupid with a flare gun" fired off a flare inside the casino's concert hall, resulting in a fire that consumed the entire casino (fortunately the studio was saved and due to the actions of "funky Claude," the festival director, no lives were lost).
The band found themselves with a very high tech recording studio and nowhere to actually record. Even worse, "Swiss time was running out;" they only had the studio available for a limited amount of time, and if they couldn't find a site to record they'd be unable to complete the album on schedule.
Eventually, the band "ended up at the Grand Hotel," which they converted into a makeshift studio with the "Rolling Truck Stones thing" (the mobile studio) parked outside. The band was able to lay down all of the tracks and complete the album on schedule; they also recorded a new track written about the events that had just transpired and titled it after the image of the smoke of the casino fire hanging over Lake Geneva.
How about Zep, then. Led Zeppelin included a track on their third album called Bron-Y-Aur Stomp. What's Bron-Y-Aur?
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
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