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According to Blabbermouth , the track listing for “Re-Machined: A Tribute To Machine Head” has been finalized and features: Smoke On The Water – CARLOS SANTANA Highway Star – CHICKENFOOT Maybe I’m A Leo – GLENN HUGHES, CHAD SMITH, LUIS MALDONADO Pictures Of Home – BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Never Before – KINGS OF CHAOS (Joe Elliott, Steve […]
Read more »Rock Backpages have reprinted a vintage interview with Jon Lord, which originally appeared in the November 1970 issue of Beat Instrumental: Do you believe in musical discipline? Yes. You take the great symphony writers like Beethoven…they wrote within an incredibly strict framework…you know, it must have a first subject, a second subject, a dominant key…and […]
Read more »Not all the news this week are of a somber nature. Life goes on and Black Country Communion have gathered in the studio in Los Angeles to work on their third album.
Read more »Bernie Marsden: June and July have been very busy, but all has been brought back to base with the loss of my great friend and colleague Jon Lord on Monday 16th July. Jon Lord was to many millions of people THE keyboard player in the great days of Deep Purple, and so he was. But […]
Read more »BBC’s Last Word: Listen to Ritchie, Rick Wakeman and Geoff Barton speak about Jon Lord — and Jon speaking about how he would like to be remembered (from an interview given the week before he died).
Read more »BBC Radio 4 will play a tribute to Jon Lord in this week’s Last Word which will air on Friday, July 20 at 16:00 local time. The show will be available as a podcast afterwards. Geoff Barton will be on the air and Classic Rock alludes that they’ve managed to secure a rare interview with Ritchie Blackmore as well.
Read more »Jon Lord’s death has made waves around the world with many people, newspapers, TV channels and web sites paying their tribute. Here is what the the people close to him had to say (in no particular order).
Read more »A week before his death, Jon Lord gave an interview to Classic Rock Magazine’s Lee Marlow. The interview will appear in the next issue of the magazine. Meanwhile he gives a personal tribute to Jon online: They say that you should never meet your heroes; that they’ll only disappoint you with their egos and their […]
Read more »Jon Lord has lost his battle with cancer. He passed away in the morning of Monday, July 16th, at The London Clinic. He has suffered a fatal pulmonary embolism. Please leave your condolences at JonLord.org.
Read more »The ‘original studio cast’ album of Jesus Christ Superstar (yes, the one with Gillan) is about to be released in remastered form in the UK on Decca Broadway label. Release date has been set for July 16. It is a straight copy of the original album, no bonus material.
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