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Terminally ill 81-year-old victim was a former classmate of the ex-Deep Purple cofounder.

"I was getting stale playing the same type of music: heavy rock for the sake of playing heavy rock."

A Conversation

Lightning strike left Joe Lynn Turner and Ritchie Blackmore working by candlelight.

Former Rainbow singer celebrates guitarist's "great gifts to the world of rock 'n' roll."

One guitarist recently said some things about another guitarist's playing. Now the other guitarist has something to say.

Former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore has weighed in on the direction the band went after he left the lineup for the final time in 1993.

Ritchie Blackmore said he invited Glenn Hughes to join the 2016 incarnation of Rainbow, and that it came to within a day of actually happening.

Glenn Hughes said that three-fifths of Deep Purple's Mark III lineup once unsuccessfully tried to reunite with Ritchie Blackmore.

What began as an informal session to record a Quatermass song laid the groundwork for something else.

It looks like those rumors regarding Ritchie Blackmore revisiting his rock 'n' roll past might actually be true — to a point, anyway.

Blackmore's Night are readying the follow-up to 2013's Dancer and the Moon.