Secret of a happy household
The second instalment of Ritchie Blackmore interview snippets talking about the olden days, going back to Charles Dickens.
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The second instalment of Ritchie Blackmore interview snippets talking about the olden days, going back to Charles Dickens.
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Very entertaining!
November 21st, 2025 at 00:55Thanks for the Blackmore insights to his early days, wonderful to hear. Cheers.
November 21st, 2025 at 07:07This is just exactly what we need right now!
Thank You very very much whoever is responsible bringing these clips for us.
Hopefully they are collecting these as a whole documentary at some point.
Maybe an extended version of that RB Story or something official like that?
Ritchie really (and maybe we, too) deserves that !
The world is smiling when You can see our hero smiling and laughing from the bottom
of his belly.
More coffee and more of these, please.
Have a nice weekend everyone !
November 21st, 2025 at 09:33@3
Ohh Hiza, my heart rejoices reading this:
“More coffee and more of these, please.”
November 21st, 2025 at 14:19– you seem to be a very sensible person 🙏🏼
My guess is that Ritchie by doctor’s orders is not allowed much coffee anymore – and if so, then only the decaf kind which we all know is a crime against nature and creation! 😎
I wrote that and just drank a cup – it’s 5:35 pm and I’d never want to give that up though my caffeine addiction is much better since I’m no longer in the office and work mostly from home. I used to be they type of guy who would get headaches (and I usually never have headaches!) from caffeine withdrawal if I didn’t have my 7 to 10 coffees and espressos per day. What would we be with our vices? 😇
November 22nd, 2025 at 16:38I could spend days and days listening to the stories of the man in black!
November 22nd, 2025 at 18:13@ 5 – is that why you are so ‘wired’ here Uwe, 7 -10 cups of coffee a day. Sheesh, no wonder none of us can get a word in. Cheers.
November 23rd, 2025 at 00:47@5
“My guess is that Ritchie by doctor’s orders is not allowed much coffee anymore – and if so, then only the decaf kind which we all know is a crime against nature and creation! 😎”
November 23rd, 2025 at 11:58– 🫣 no wonder the poor man isn’t well!
It sounds like Uwe is a slave to the caffeine deity……………..Well at least we finally found out who he really does worship, after all these years. He has said before he is a insomniac of sorts, or a vampire perhaps, up all night, every night. Let’s face it, he is residing in the right environment and surroundings for all that and we can only hope he isn’t baying at the moon and getting up to all sorts of nocturnal depravities. Does he own a castle though, it appears not, but who can tell? He probably leases a different one for each night, they are a dime a dozen over there, are they not? Cheers.
November 23rd, 2025 at 20:27Castles aren’t indeed that expensive – it’s their upkeep and the energy costs that eventually kill you, Herr MacGregor! That is why many of them in Germany are unsellable to private investors and end up state-owned.
Nope, no castle, just a 1963 prefab bungalow in Scandinavian style from the renowned “Astrid”-series. Initially bought and owned by the little chap in the Hitler Jugend uniform here,
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R32860%2C_Berlin%2C_Trauung_von_Joseph_und_Magda_Goebbels.jpg
Joseph Goebbels’ stepson Harald Quandt, who used it to house one of his (many) mistresses post-war (Harald, unlike the six biological Goebbels children who were his half-siblings, was not poisonend in the Führerbunker by his mother Magda, he was at that point in time a Luftwaffe paratrooper and POW with the British in North Africa). Infidelity Harald didn’t really live in the bungalow, but only paid “visits”, the Egelsbach airfield nearby proving to be a convenient alibi (he was a hobby pilot).
But that is a whole bunch of other stories for some other time! But, alas!, I guess it is fair to say that I live surrounded by walls who have seen their fair share of sin …
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9IC6iz_QyY0
And for the record: I do not in nocturnal seances summon the ghost of Joseph Goebbels! He wasn’t Heinrich Himmler anyway, he believed in none of that occult crap.
November 23rd, 2025 at 23:49@ 10 – yes the maintenance of those old huge stone and concrete buildings would be a nightmare and they always look very cold too. I suppose these days some of them would have internal heating of the modern kind. Regarding Rob Halford, wouldn’t he get rather hot wearing all that leather when performing and also with all that huffing and puffing going on. I am talking about his musical performances, nothing more, nothing less. Cheers.
November 25th, 2025 at 08:56Halford often moans about his stage outfits, they weigh up to 10 kilos and of course they must feel hot under the lights. He does frequent costume chances during a show (half a dozen times or more, Priest shows are by now quite a bit longer than DP ones, they used to be shorter), likely that they cool down his coats as he changes them.
November 26th, 2025 at 10:37