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The year was 1976, and on March 24 Sweet were playing a show in Santa Monica, California. It was just days after the death of Paul Kosoff, so they decided to pay him a tribute by performing a cover of Free’s All right now for the encore. Ritchie Blackmore was in the neighbourhood, and joined […]
Read more »Ritchie Blackmore recounts George Harrison joining Deep Purple on stage on the Perfect Strangers tour in Australia
Read more »Ritchie Blackmore tells the story of writing and recording of Smoke on the Water.
Read more »This is straight from the desk of bizarre appearances in our trainspotting department. Some time over the past year, crooks posing as Ritchie Blackmore scammed an old lady in the UK out of £115,000. See the maestro himself appearing at around 12:40 expressing sympathy for the victim and vehemently denying his involvement because he doesn’t […]
Read more »Louder Sound prints some quotes from a 1975 vintage Blackmore interview that originally appeared in the inaugural issue of the International Musician and Recording World magazine: Assessing some of his peers, Blackmore confessed that he “wasn’t struck” on Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, and admitted “I never saw what was in Clapton at all.” In a […]
Read more »Ritchie Blackmore recalls the story of how Child in Time (née Bombay Calling) came into being.
Read more »One of our most prolific commenters Uwe Hornung writes: I know, I know, we’re not a guitar player forum, but this here is real interesting. It shows how Blackmore created THAT otherworldly studio sound of the Highway Star solo by harmonizing it (and breaking traditional harmony rules in places as he did not properly discern […]
Read more »Ritchie Blackmore reminisces from his bar about various encounters with Eric Clapton he had over the years.
Read more »A second single from the upcoming remix of Blackmore’s Night third album Fires at Midnight. Has been released. Listen to the remixed Sake of the Song on your favourite streaming service or right here.
Read more »A “25th anniversary” (23rd in actual years) edition of the third Blackmore’s Night album Fires At Midnight will be released on September 27, 2024, via Edel/earMusic. The album will be fully remixed from the original multitrack masters, and will include all bonus tracks from previous editions, plus new versions of Written In The Stars and […]
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