One of Ritchie Blackmore's former classmates has been scammed out of almost $184,000 by someone pretending to be the former Deep Purple cofounder. Valerie Horwood, a terminally ill cancer patient, was ...
In 1973, one of the biggest rock bands in the world took a huge gamble by replacing their lead singer with a complete unknown. The band was Deep Purple. The outgoing singer was Ian Gillan. And the raw ...
Joe Lynn Turner recalled a spooky moment in the studio with Ritchie Blackmore while they were working on Rainbow's hit “Street of Dreams” in 1983. The record was being tracked in Copenhagen, Denmark, ...
Why did Ritchie Blackmore leave Deep Purple? And why did the influential guitarist do it not once but twice, initially departing the English hard rock band in 1975 before returning around 10 years ...