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Classic Rock Magazine has a new interview with Ian Gillan focusing on his Ian Gillan Band years: Why the jazz-rock-fusion direction? I don’t know exactly, it was all a bit chaotic. To start off with we didn’t really have any direction at all, because nobody knew what they were doing. Of course, my hero Johnny […]
Read more »Eddie Hardin: JON LORD – THE GENTLEMAN OF MUSIC My first encounter with Jon, well, I must have been 16! He was playing with THE ARTWOODS and I was rehearsing in a room nearby; I was immediately struck by the growling sound of his Hammond. I tried my best to be inconspicuous, though Jon spotted […]
Read more »Jon Lord’s home town newspaper Henley Standard also did a tribute to him which puts his character in quite a unique perspective: Lord was a close friend of author, playwright and barrister Sir John Mortimer, who died in 2009, and they performed together at the Kenton Theatre in Henley. Nansi Diamond, an amateur actress and […]
Read more »British radio station GTFM did a special on Jon Lord in the wake of his death. It is one of the better done ones and covers his whole career in and outside of Purple. You can listen to it online (sadly, sans the music, due to licensing restrictions). Listen to the second half of the […]
Read more »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.
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