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J.J. Cale has passed away on July 26. Roger Glover posts a personal eulogy: One evening in the early 70s, I was at my friend Kent’s place, down by the canal in Uxbridge, with Roger Brewer and Ron Quinten. We were relaxing, smoking some weed and listening to music, when I heard something that blew […]
Read more »This year Zermatt Unplugged festival, which runs April 9th to 13th, is featuring a special tribute lounge in memory of Jon Lord and Claude Nobs. Both were long time patrons of the festival, and both passed away last year. The lounge will be open at the Mont Cervin Palace daily, from noon till midnight. Documents, […]
Read more »Eddie Hardin: JON LORD – THE GENTLEMAN OF MUSIC My first encounter with Jon, well, I must have been 16! He was playing with THE ARTWOODS and I was rehearsing in a room nearby; I was immediately struck by the growling sound of his Hammond. I tried my best to be inconspicuous, though Jon spotted […]
Read more »Jon Lord’s home town newspaper Henley Standard also did a tribute to him which puts his character in quite a unique perspective: Lord was a close friend of author, playwright and barrister Sir John Mortimer, who died in 2009, and they performed together at the Kenton Theatre in Henley. Nansi Diamond, an amateur actress and […]
Read more »British radio station GTFM did a special on Jon Lord in the wake of his death. It is one of the better done ones and covers his whole career in and outside of Purple. You can listen to it online (sadly, sans the music, due to licensing restrictions). Listen to the second half of the […]
Read more »Bernie Marsden: June and July have been very busy, but all has been brought back to base with the loss of my great friend and colleague Jon Lord on Monday 16th July. Jon Lord was to many millions of people THE keyboard player in the great days of Deep Purple, and so he was. But […]
Read more »BBC’s Last Word: Listen to Ritchie, Rick Wakeman and Geoff Barton speak about Jon Lord — and Jon speaking about how he would like to be remembered (from an interview given the week before he died).
Read more »BBC Radio 4 will play a tribute to Jon Lord in this week’s Last Word which will air on Friday, July 20 at 16:00 local time. The show will be available as a podcast afterwards. Geoff Barton will be on the air and Classic Rock alludes that they’ve managed to secure a rare interview with Ritchie Blackmore as well.
Read more »Jon Lord’s death has made waves around the world with many people, newspapers, TV channels and web sites paying their tribute. Here is what the the people close to him had to say (in no particular order).
Read more »Jon Lord has lost his battle with cancer. He passed away in the morning of Monday, July 16th, at The London Clinic. He has suffered a fatal pulmonary embolism. Please leave your condolences at JonLord.org.
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