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Russ Ballard on Rockpages
Rockpages has an interview with Russ Ballard — the man who wrote Since You’ve Been Gone and I Surrender, among many other tunes: Rockpages.gr: How about Rainbow…? Their biggest hits were two of your songs…did you have the chance to meet Ritchie Blackmore? Russ Ballard: I’ve never met Ritchie. Rockpages.gr: Have you talked on the […]
Read more »A Knight In York release details
Further details of the upcoming Blackmore’s Night live album A Knight In York have been revealed. Track listing: Locked Within The Crystal Ball Gilded Cage The Circle Journeyman World Of Stone The Peasant‘s Promise Toast To Tomorrow Fires At Midnight Barbara Allen Darkness Dance Of The Darkness Dandelion Wine All The Fun Of The Fayre […]
Read more »A Knight In York
Blackmore’s Night will release a new live album called A Knight in York recorded last Fall at the Opera House in York, England. Darker Than Blue reports that the album will be available in several formats: DVD, blue ray, CD, and triple vinyl. European release date has been set for June 29 via Sony/Ariola.
Read more »Blackmore’s Night on SpazioRock
Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night recently spoke to Italy’s SpazioRock. Well, Ritchie mostly kept quiet leaving his missus and the interviewer to do the talking. And this statement definitely proves wrong all those who – fifteen years later – still think that Ritchie Blackmore was somehow “pushed” by beautiful Candice into leaving Rainbow in order […]
Read more »A very Purple That Metal Show
Tony Iommi was a featured guest on the last episode of VH1’s That Metal Show, but despite of that most of the show revolved around Purple. Or maybe not even ‘despite’, given the rather incestious relationship between the two bands. Iommi discussed past experience with Ian Gillan and Glenn Hughes as singers in Sabbath. He […]
Read more »Blackmore’s Night on German TV
Blackmore’s Night will appear on the German TV show Fersehengarten this Sunday, July 17. They will perform the Journeyman off their Autumn Sky album.
Read more »Well done, Maestro Morse!
Amazing, but true. Geoff Barton writes in the Classic Rock Magazine blog: Steve Morse has become the longest-running guitarist for Deep Purple, having joined the band in 1994. Morse’s unbroken 17-year tenure beats founding guitarist Ritchie Blackmore’s stints with the band from 1968-1975 and 1984-1993 (we make that 16 years). While Geoff didn’t quite get […]
Read more »Codswallop soup
A couple of new interviews with Blackmore’s Night. Greg Prato (of the Tommy Bolin biography fame) has conducted a short but rather interesting interview with Ritchie and Candice: UGO: Ritchie, what is your favorite Deep Purple album and Rainbow album, and why? RITCHIE BLACKMORE: I don’t know, it was too long ago and I don’t […]
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