Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ritchie Blackmore and Graham Bonnet onstage in Rotterdam, February 1980. In February 1979, Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow gathered ...

Featuring 14 tracks lined with Rainbow and Deep Purple classics like "Stargazer" and "Highway Star," the set was culled from both Monsters of Rock festival performances on July 17 and 18. The release ...

Ronnie Romero, Jens Johansson, David Keith and Bob Nouveau now flank the iconic six-stringer and, together, they brought Rainbow back to the stage with an exclusive series of festival performances in ...

The set -- which includes more than a dozen songs from guitarist Blackmore's stints in Deep Purple and Rainbow -- will be available as DVD/two-CD and Blu-ray/two-CD sets, as well as in digital formats ...

“Fast forward to day before rehearsals and we contacted Glenn to see when he was going to fly in, and he wasn't aware that he wasn't going to be the lead singer at all. So I understood his situation, ...

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Ritchie Blackmore took the stage Friday at Loreley, Germany’s Monsters of Rock to perform the works of his two pioneering heavy metal groups – Deep Purple and Rainbow – for the first time in 19 years.

In an era teaming with bands led by virtuoso guitarists and fronted by a singer with killer pipes, British rockers Rainbow stood head and shoulders above the crowd. Ritchie Blackmore's hugely ...

Deep Purple were rendered speechless when, in a Munich hotel in March 1975, Ritchie Blackmore announced he was leaving the band he'd co-founded seven years earlier. In retrospect, it made sense that ...

In 1968, Blackmore co-founded Deep Purple with keyboardist Jon Lord, drummer Ian Paice, singer Rod Evans, and bassist Nick Simper. The group was initially heavily influenced by psychedelia and ...