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Ritchie Blackmore on his favourite guitarist: “I think, How the hell is he doing that?”
In a typically forthright 1975 interview, Ritchie Blackmore offered his thoughts on the music business, and his peers
"We should have been writing our own songs, but it was much better to listen to Abba": Ritchie Blackmore has named his favourite band of all time
Ritchie Blackmore opens up during a 40-minute online Q&A filmed at home in Long Island
"A lot of people don't like Ritchie Blackmore. But he feels he has nothing to say apart from what he says with his guitar": the mutual respect between Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore and Mountain's Leslie West was sweet and pure
Hearing Mountain for the first time in 1970 rendered Ritchie Blackmore speechless, and Leslie West was equally impressed by Deep Purple's guitar hero
"I'm not too struck on Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton, I never saw what was in Clapton at all". In 1975, Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore was asked for his thoughts on his peers: he did not hold back
Blackmore on Hendrix, Beck, Page, Clapton, Townshend and more
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow: Stranger In Us All - Album Of The Week Club review
Rainbow’s unloved final album was released in 1995, after Ritchie Blackmore’s nine loveless years married to the re-formed Deep Purple
World Guitar Day 2017: Deep Purple’s Smoke On The Water tops greatest riffs poll
Deep Purple’s Smoke On The Water voted Greatest Guitar Riff Ever in World Guitar Day 2017 poll
Deep Purple: the turbulent story of Stormbringer and Ritchie Blackmore's exit
In 1974 Deep Purple were flying high, buoyed by the success of Burn and a fiery new line-up – but it soon started to disintegrate
The tantalising story of Baby Face, the supergroup that almost was
"Phil’s voice was staggering, wonderful. But he couldn’t play" - the story of the Thin Lizzy-Deep Purple supergroup that could have been
