Deep Purple icon Ritchie Blackmore tells us how a visit from Slowhand’s roadie turned him into a Fender Strat diehard – and why he kept breaking whammy bars ...

Ritchie Blackmore is an incredibly varied guitar player and wears his influences on his sleeve, which is why he adores these three guitarists.

Ronnie Romero was singing with Spanish metal band Lords Of Black when Ritchie Blackmore hand-picked him to become singer in ...

Eddie Van Halen invented an amazing new way to play guitar but managed to incorporate melody into everything he did, and ...

Ritchie Blackmore will always be best known for the titanic riff he supplied to 'Smoke on the Water,' but there's more to the guitarist than Deep Purple. He also co-founded Rainbow, a band that ...

Former Deep Purple bandmates Ian Gillan and Ritchie Blackmore have had a long and frequently tempestuous relationship. Gillan’s first stint in the band came to an end in 1973 after one too many ...

Rock’n’roll legend Ritchie Blackmore is returning for a one-off show to bring you all the anthems of Deep Purple and Rainbow… ...

It was with this line-up that he produced Since You Been Gone. Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow is still touring in 2019 (Blackmore has changed the line-up several times since 1979) and in an ...

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Brian May, Lars Ulrich and Gene Simmons are among those paying tribute to The Outlaws and Rainbow guitarist Ritchie Blackmore. This is the definitive story of a true ...