Japanese PM Takaichi meets British rock band Deep Purple

Hard rock enthusiast Sanae Takaichi beamed as she met the rockers in her Tokyo office.

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"You are my god," Sanae Takaichi, a hard rock enthusiast, told the band's drummer Ian Paice, beaming as she handed him a pair of signed Japanese-made drumsticks.

An avid drummer herself, Takaichi played in a Deep Purple tribute band as a girl after becoming a fan in primary school.

"These days, when I fight with my husband I drum to Burn and cast a curse on him," the 65-year-old conservative leader told the musicians at her office in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, on Friday.

The band met Japan's first female prime minister as they returned to tour across the country where they recorded the 1972 live album Made in Japan - considered to be one of the greatest rock albums ever recorded.