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Tears to his eyes
Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night have appeared on April 14, 2026, on SiriusXM’s show Ozzy’s Boneyard. The interview is available to SiriusXM subscribers only (apparently there’s a free trial, if you’re inclined), but BraveWords has a quote from Ritchie about late Jon Lord:
I said to Jon Lord of Deep Purple, when we got together, it was Jon and I that got together. We were the first two to put it together, and then I got Ian Paice, blah, blah, blah. I remember saying to Jon, ‘who the hell are you?’ and Jon said, ‘well, I’m the keyboard player,’ and I said, ‘well, then play something,’ and as soon as he started playing, I felt honoured to play with him. He is like the typical gentleman. He should have been in those films… he is like a George Sanders of the rock and roll world. Whenever you ask him, ‘Jon, how are you doing?’ he’d go, ‘absolutely wonderful!’ I would be at the other… ya know… people would say to me, ‘how are you doing?’ and I would say, ‘I’m in various stages of deterioration,’ so Jon and I clicked. He got it. A wonderful man to go out to dinner with until he had more than 3 martinis, and then we would be talking about other subjects. I wrote the song ‘Carry On Jon’ about Jon, and I couldn’t even play it on stage. It brought tears to my eyes…
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