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The Ritchie Blackmore Story
The upcoming Ritchie Blackmore documentary appears to have undergone a facelift — it has been retitled from the quirky Uneasy Rider — The Talented Mr. Blackmore to more pedestrian The Ritchie Blackmore Story and release date has been pushed back to November 6.
It will come out on DVD, Blu-ray and digital download.
The documentary (at least, the Japanese edition) will include fragments of the following:
- Concerto for Group and Orchestra (London, 1969)
- Speed King (Beat Club, 1970)
- Mandrake Root (French TV, 1970)
- Child in Time (Granada TV, 1970)
- Black Night (Live on TV, 1970)
- Strange Kind of Woman (Live on TV, 1971)
- Smoke on the Water (Hofstra, 1973)
- Highway Star (Budokan, 1972)
- Highway Star (Australia, 1984)
- Space Truckin’ (Denmark, 1972)
- Space Truckin’ (California Jam, 1974)
- Mistreated (California Jam, 1974)
- Burn (London, 1974)
- Long Live Rock’n’Roll (Munich 1977)
- 16th Century Greensleeves (Munich 1977)
- Do You Close Your Eyes (Munich 1977)
- Gates of Babylon (promo, 1978)
- Since You’ve Been Gone (promo, 1979)
- All Night Long (promo, 1980)
- All Night Long (Donington, 1980)
- Difficult to Cure (promo, 1981)
- Street of Dreams (promo, 1983)
- Perfect Strangers (promo, 1984)
- Call of the Wild (promo, 1987)
- King of Dreams (promo, 1990)
- Battle Rages On (Birmingham, 1993)
- Black Masquerade (Dusseldorf, 1995)
- Play Minstrel Play (promo?)
- Renaissance Fair (promo?)
- Fires at Midnight (promo?)
In addition, there will be a 2DVD+2CD deluxe edition. The extra material will be the subtly elusive Rainbow Budokan 1984 show — Live In Tokyo, which to the best of my knowledge have been previously released in full only in Japan on laserdisc. The second DVD, along with both CDs, will contain this last Rainbow performance from March 14, 1984, right before the Purple reunion.
Live In Tokyo track list:
- Intro Medley
- Spotlight Kid
- Miss Mistreated
- I Surrender
- Can’t Happen Here
- Catch The Rainbow
- Power
- Keyboard Solo
- Street Of Dreams
- Fool For The Night
- Difficult To Cure (Beethoven’s Ninth)
- Guitar Solo
- Drum Solo
- Blues
- Medley: Stranded / Hey Joe
- Death Alley Driver
- Fire Dance
- Maybe Next Time
- Medley: All Night Long / Woman From Tokyo
- Lazy
- Since You’ve Been Gone
- Smoke On The Water
Japanese “super premium” limited edition in addition to the above will also include Live In Tokyo on 3LPs and two original design t-shirts.
Thanks to Blabbermouth, Ultimate Classic Rock, Ward Records, Lutz Reinert, and mr.trinity for the info.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Shouldn’t Black Masquerade be 1995, not 1985?
September 12th, 2015 at 20:05Correct !
September 12th, 2015 at 20:08Looking forward to that Tokyo show
September 12th, 2015 at 20:21Could be worse, but I hope the Japan show is from master and not just the bootleg sold officially like the Donnington show included on the Down To Earth re-issue. Epic fail if so. The rest at least does intrigue.
September 12th, 2015 at 22:06Thanx for clarifying. Too good to be true to have 2 docs coming out in 2 months time.
September 12th, 2015 at 23:51No mention of his pre Purple career and no footage of MK I line up!
September 13th, 2015 at 13:15aaaaaaaaaaa
“Wring That Neck ” Paris 1970 ????!!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXgvxg8StnI
September 16th, 2015 at 06:30Speed King is not Beat Club either. These are small gripes. The list of material doesn’t make this an immediate must buy.
September 17th, 2015 at 16:00@ 5,
September 18th, 2015 at 19:55what would be the second doc?
“Speed King” (1970) is from “Ich bin” (I am) , a personality show with Vicky Leandros , a well-known
September 21st, 2015 at 22:09Greek singer, she won the ESC back in 1972 and for that show she won the Bronze Rose of Montreux:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1283494/
It’s spelled ‘Donington’, not ‘Donnington’.
Bands have been playing there for over thirty-five years and people are still spelling it incorrectly!
September 26th, 2015 at 17:30Deluxe Edition now listed on Amazon UK for under £35.
September 27th, 2015 at 11:26I see the one on Amazon UK is the 2xDVD/2CD version, anyone any idea where the 2xBluray/2CD version is being sold?
Also, any ideas where the super premium version is being sold, can’t find it on HMV Japan.
September 29th, 2015 at 14:40The price of the Deluxe Edition on Amazon UK has now dropped to under £25.
October 12th, 2015 at 14:46I received my deluxe edition yesterday. Nice item !
November 26th, 2015 at 06:46Interesting documentary ! And the part concerning Ian Gillan naked and spiders in the bonus interviews is really funny !
UK website MetalTalk have published a review of the ‘Ritchie Blackmore Story’ DVD here:
December 28th, 2015 at 16:23http://metaltalk.net/columns2015/201523339.php
I have watched the DVD a few times now and recommend it to RB fans. Not a lot of new stories but the comparison of Jim Morrison and Ian Gillan ‘looks wise’ is a new one. I love the bonus bit about Gene Vincent and J. Lee Lewis as told by RB even though the stories have been in print and the Gene story was in the Kevin Spacey movie ‘Telstar” about Joe Meek. As far as the Tokyo dvd, I owned the Jap Laser Disk when it came out officially in the mid 80’s and do not recall the show image being so soft focus. But then we have been spoiled with Hi Def dvd images since then.
December 29th, 2015 at 19:18Im still waiting for a release date of the deluxe edition here in the states-hopefully soon
December 31st, 2015 at 23:58