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In a new interview to the Ultimate Classic Rock, Ritchie Blackmore confirms the story that in 1970 Christopher Cross has played a gig with Deep Purple in his place. This episode became a minor controversy in the Purple lore as over the years Cross himself claimed it, with further corroboration by Eric Johnson, who opened the show. Jon Lord, however, disputed that story as ‘never happened’.
Deep Purple shared the stage with Christopher Cross on August 28, 1970 at the Jam Factory in San Antonio. The twist? Cross was filling in at the last minute for the band’s regular guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore.
“I must have had a virus or something, because I had a canker sore in my mouth under my tongue,” Blackmore tells UCR in a new interview. “So I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t speak. I was miserable about that and I wasn’t happy about being on tour in America. I loved Europe, [but] America, it was so far apart in the places we played in. I had no idea where I was. I wasn’t in my comfort zone and I kind of missed England.”
Read more in Ultimate Classic Rock.
Thanks to Gary Poronovich for the heads-up.
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