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The teacher didn’t look like Buddy Holly

In this undated interview, Ritchie Blackmore tells that the original motivation to play guitar was basically his desire to impress his school teacher.

The interview continues with his early musical influences:

Relationship with his parents:

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Posted by Nick on Tuesday, November 18th, 2025, filed under News. You can follow comment on this post through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a comment. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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    MacGregor says:

    Good interviews and I can relate to that early school discipline too from certain teachers. In many ways some of the teachers were out to get you, in that aspect. Fabulous early experiences for Blackmore during his teenage years. These Joe Meek recordings have Ritchie heavily featured, at 4.00minutes up to 7 minutes 35 on this Joe Meek documentary about Blackmore and his recordings with Joe Meek. Blackmore certainly learnt some innovative guitar from Jim Sullivan and a few others from that early 60’s era. Well ahead of the pack in certain aspects with his technique. Thanks for the videos.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCIb31y5wfU

    November 18th, 2025 at 07:05

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