The summer of 1975 signaled a new beginning for one of hard rock’s greatest stars as Ritchie Blackmore unveiled the first fruits of his brand-new band, Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow. The group featured ...
The music that guitarist Ritchie Blackmore created as a part of Deep Purple and then later with Rainbow has forever solidified his place as a rock and metal guitar legend. For the past 18 years ...
It’s not surprising that the man behind one of rock’s most iconic riffs would have a healthy dose of main character energy. Enter Ritchie Blackmore: guitar god, chaos magnet, and the dark heart of ...
Over the years, Ritchie Blackmore had maintained a hard-nosed stance against ever playing rock music again, instead opting to keep his focus on the Renaissance project Blackmore's Night. Last year, he ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ritchie Blackmore and Graham Bonnet onstage in Rotterdam, February 1980. In February 1979, Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow gathered ...
Deep Purple were rendered speechless when, in a Munich hotel in March 1975, Ritchie Blackmore announced he was leaving the band he'd co-founded seven years earlier. In retrospect, it made sense that ...
Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In an era teaming with bands led by virtuoso ...
Those concerts paved the way for four U.K. dates staged last year — and now a new live collection that blends audio recordings with live footage, an hour of backstage interviews and behind-the-scenes ...
MOSCOW, October 13. /TASS/. Former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore will play concerts in Russia with his legendary band Rainbow in the spring of 2018, a spokesperson with the concert agency ...