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Basically, a groupie
Candice Night talks to INDIEPOWER_TV from the (now familiar) her living room about meeting Ritchie Blackmore, becoming a lyric writer for Rainbow, importance of the creative freedom, having a cancer surgery while on tour with Rainbow, and many other things. Some of these we have already heard, others are new.
Thanks to Uwe for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Ritchie was persistent against the advice of doctors that his wife gets a biopsy – as usual good instincts the man. Hearing the bad news while touring in Europe in 2016 can’t have been easy.
November 3rd, 2025 at 03:08She such a beautiful person i can seen why Ritchie married her
November 3rd, 2025 at 12:29Ritchie and Candice live on Long Island. The band Dream Theater are also from Long Island and I think they admire Blackmore a lot. E.g. they once covered Songs like Perfect Strangers and Stargazer and of course the whole Album Made in Japan.
November 4th, 2025 at 11:41Does anyone of you in this Forum know, if there is or has ever been a Connection beetween Dream Theater Musicians and Ritchie or Candice?
Candice is such a positive person. Every interview with her is very entertaining, brings a smile to my face.
November 4th, 2025 at 19:37Plus, a new Blackmore’s Night album in the future? Hooray!
Martin @3:
don’t think so. by the time Ritchie moved to Long island and started scowering local clubs for musicians, Dream Theater already had a major label album out and a video in MTV rotation.
Purple family connections are numerous, just not to Ritchie/Candice. Steve Morse has played with Rudess, Portnoy, and Petrucci in various projects. Rudess stood in for Don Airey at a Purple gig once. Sherinian has played with Glenn Hughes. Bruce Payne was credited on a couple of DT albums in the 90s (I never figured out what was the story there). in a recent interview, Steve Morse mentions that he is sharing management with DT.
November 4th, 2025 at 21:44#3 Martin:
Dream Theater didn’t just play PS once, but before they recorded it on the magnificent A Change of Season, they played it on many dates on the Awake tour.
November 4th, 2025 at 23:48@5 Dream Theater used to be the *other* band managed by Thames Talent (Bruce Payne).
November 5th, 2025 at 12:35@ 5,6,7
November 5th, 2025 at 16:53I thought that if you live on a relatively small island and come from a similar genre, you might know each other privately. But maybe Ritchie, who is known to be introverted, doesn’t want that. I mean, the US is such a huge country, it’s a coincidence that people like that live together on this island.
@8:
The “small island” in question is 200 km end-to-end, and has a population of 8 million. I’ve been to countries that are smaller 😉
November 5th, 2025 at 19:49Right! And Nick personally walked it all!!
I never got farther while I lived there in 1988 than walking on a Saturday from the southern tip of Manhattan all the way up to where NYC ends in the north. Took me a whole day (it’s only 22
November 6th, 2025 at 13:30kilometers , but I did a lot of sightseeing while on the way), but it gave you a real sense of Manhattan. All the New Yorkers at work thought I was crazy and saw my life end in the Bronx at the latest 😂, but the only sign of violence I saw was a roadkill dead raccoon way up north. That was the first time I came up close with a raccoon, these days they live in my garden and in the rafters under my roof, darn Yank immigrants! 🤣