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Child in Edinburgh

Child in Time, Edinburgh, Usher hall, October 5, 2009. The singer’s name is Grant Barclay. He had been given a tremendous voice and talent to use it, as evidenced by this recording. We wish him all the best in his endeavours.

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- You feel he has a lot of wisdom

Scottish music students interviewed about rehearsing the Concerto for Group and Orchestra with Jon Lord on keyboards. This Monday October 5 they will perform the Concerto at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall.

Talking about their very first rehearsal with Jon Lord:

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Deep Purple rock all ages

More than 40 years after Deep Purple first started touring and making records, their multifacetted musical heritage not only lives on, it is continually evolving through projects featuring other musicians, and some of them are very young.

In 2009 audiences […]

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Jon Lord: I think I played it a bit better than that!

‘It isn’t me - so it isn’t the others.’

Jon Lord confirms that the socalled channel mixes of Hush recently uploaded to Youtube are fakes and do not feature Deep Purple.

Jon Lord writes:

‘Just thought you’d like to know that it […]

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Jon Lord announces Russian concerts

On his official website, JonLord.org, the maestro has confirmed three concerts for October.

The dates and cities are:

Oct 9 - Yekaterinburg, Russia - tickets
Oct 12 - St. Petersburg, Russia - tickets
Oct 15 - Moscow, Russia - tickets

At the concerts […]

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The many facets of Purple family

Gary Moore, Ian Paice, Don Airey, Neil Murray, Cozy Powell, Jack Bruce, Max Middleton, Clem Clempson, Graham Bonnet, Micky Moody, Cozy Powell and Jon Lord — see them all here.

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Jon Lord and Glenn Hughes on ChildLine live CD

Monday night’s ChildLine Rocks charity show in London (June 1) is to be released on a socalled Instant Live CD.

The 3CD set will feature Jon Lord, Glenn Hughes, Uriah Heep, Thunder and more on a limited edition release with […]

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Jon Lord interview on TotalRock, May 20

This Wednesday morning Jon Lord will talk to TotalRock radio in London in an interview with Malcolm Dome. You can listen online from anywhere.

Jon Lord will appear on Malcolm Dome’s Phantasmagoria between 10am and 12am, chatting about his music […]

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Please help me with this Jon Lord quote

Over the years, it’s been fun to try to figure out various quotes that Jon Lord and Ritchie Blackmore threw into their lengthy improvisations in the 70’s. A bunch of the classical ones has been covered in Janell Duxbury’s list in […]

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Jon Lord on the streets of São Paulo

Two months after Deep Purple concert in São Paulo, we had the great pleasure to see another gig of Purple family in our city. Jon Lord played the the Concerto for Group and Orchestra as the opening act of Virada […]

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