Montreux Casino on a Frank Zappa Bootleg album titled "Swiss Cheese/Fire!" The song "Smoke on the Water" by English rock group Deep Purple is about the incident: The Casino was subsequently rebuilt, and during the interim the Montreux Jazz Festival was held in other auditoriums in Montreux, until it could return to the newly re-opened Casino in 1975. The Festival continued to be hosted there until 1993, when it moved to a larger Montreux Convention Centre located approximately one kilometre from the Casino. From 1995 through 2006, the Festival occupied both the Convention Centre and the Casino. Beginning with the 41st Festival
Fairmont Le Montreux Palace in August in Zurich with over 500 guests. Fairmont Le Montreux Palace won the Public prize for the film "Stille Post" by the cineaste Alejandro Gasser. 2012 - During the Tennis Davis Cup in Fribourg in February 2012, Stanislas Wawrinka and Roger Federer stayed at Fairmont Le Montreux Palace. Katie Melua, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Bobby McFerrin, Nile Rodgers, Herbert Grönemeyer, Lana del Rey, Anastacia are just a few artists who were guests at Fairmont Le Montreux Palace during the Montreux Jazz Festival in July 2012. 2013 - During the Montreux Jazz Festival we had the pleasure to welcome several