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Never completely uncontroversial
Back in 2021, around the time Nature’s Light was released, Ritchie Blackmore gave an interview to the German magazine Gitarre & Bass. And for a change, he seemed to be completely serious throughout.
Which phase of your rock career is your songwriting today closest to? And which one is it most different from?
To be honest, even in the past I almost always had Renaissance music in mind when I was composing, the only difference being that I always incorporated a little blues into my chord progressions. During my time with Deep Purple I often composed riffs plus the chord progressions to go with them and then let Ian Gillan find the melodies to go with them. So in that sense I had no idea how the melody would go when I was writing songs. But that changed later in my career. When I founded Rainbow in 1975 I automatically knew what the melody would be while I was composing. There were some significantly different compositional approaches between Deep Purple and Rainbow.
The interview was published in German, and you can read more of it in Gitarre & Bass, or take your chances with Google’s automatic translation.
Thanks to Uwe Hornung for the info.
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