Henry Schein joins Carry The Load walk to honor U.S. heroes. Blackmore’s Night inducted into Long Island music hall of fame. Gov. Hochul breaks ground on $75M tech center at FSC. La Bussola in ...

Former Deep Purple man Ritchie Blackmore has given his official verdict on Taylor Swift and – perhaps unsurprisingly – it turns out he's not a big fan. Blackmore made the revelation during the ...

Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore was an integral part of the 1960s rock scene, creating some of the most iconic riffs of all time (i.e., “Smoke On The Water”) and keeping his finger on ...

Then, Ritchie [Blackmore] decided that if we weren’t going to close, nobody was.” In response, the furious Blackmore ordered someone to get him some gasoline. He doused the equipment in it, then had ...

Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore developed quite a reputation for his antics on and offstage, including Ritchie Blackmore’s prank that fellow rock and roller Lemmy Kilmister (of Motörhead ...

Chris Curtis was a legendary character, but pharmaceutically challenged by the excesses of the 60s, to the point where his Scouse mate George Harrison dubbed him, “Mad Harry”. Curtis quit The ...

Ritchie Blackmore detailed his decision to step away from Deep Purple in the ‘90s and pursue the more traditional folk-rock project Blackmore’s Night, explaining that he had grown bored with ...

I played it, and he was impressed. And we were off.” Of all the difficult bastards Don Airey has ever worked with, you’d think that Blackmore was the most difficult bastard of all. “No, he’s very easy ...

But if it hadn’t been for the fateful night of 4 December 1971, Smoke On The Water may never have reached the wider ears of the world. That month, Deep Purple had relocated to Montreux, Switzerland, ...

6. Ritchie Blackmore Ritchie Blackmore's legacy runs deep, first delivering some truly hard rocking riffs as part of Deep Purple, then later getting heavier by founding early metal giants Rainbow.