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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 »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 »Jon Lord official website has announced his first public performance this year — a special presentation of Durham Concerto in Hagen, Germany on July 6. Yes, the usual (under the circumstances) disclaimers apply. This will be almost exactly a year since the date of his last public performance. Tickets are on sale. Update (Jun 28): […]
Read more »The 2012 edition of the Sunflower Jam will be held at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Sunday, September 16. Apparently Jon Lord’s treatment is proceeding well enough that he is billed to appear there. (And with the whole thing being organized by his sister-in-law, this must come from pretty close to home, so […]
Read more »The Jon Lord for BBC Proms petition that Elinor started about a month ago is still open. As of this writing, it has collected 1,582 signatures with a goal of 5,000.
C’mon! We know that more people on THS alone have read that message. With Jon now struggling with cancer (and even if he didn’t), you know it’s the right thing to do. Go and sign it now.
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