Having become disillusioned with Deep Purple’s growing love of funk, Ritchie Blackmore jumped ship in August 1975 – taking most of Purple’s opening act with him ...

Ritchie Blackmore’s unmistakable guitar sound didn’t just happen — it was built through decades of experimentation with Fender Stratocasters, scalloped fretboards, and custom electronics. From Deep ...

Despite a fair few sonic disparities between Talking Heads and the Ramones, David Byrne owes a lot to the abrasive DIY ...

Singer Andrew Freeman talks DIO Rules, sixteen years with Last In Line and what it really means to honour Ronnie James Dio ...

In Part One, Andrew Freeman talked about custodianship and celebration and the new DIO Rules project. In Part Two, the conversation gets a little more complicated. Last In Line have not played a gig ...

Deep Purple shared the stage with Christopher Cross on August 28, 1970 at the Jam Factory in San Antonio. The twist? Cross ...

Illness strikes mid-tour: During Deep Purple’s 1970 U.S. tour, Ritchie Blackmore collapsed before a San Antonio show and was hospitalized, missing the second set. Local hero steps in: Promoter Joe ...

Atlanta manager Walt Weiss said Friday that Ritchie will remain in the majors for now because "we wanted him to be an option in the picture moving forward," Chad Bishop of The Atlanta ...

No matter what happens for the rest of JR Ritchie's Major League Baseball career, he will always remember his first pitch. Perhaps not fondly, but he'll definitely never struggle to remember if it was ...

WASHINGTON — JR Ritchie will remember a lot about his MLB debut, including the first pitch he threw from a big-league mound, a 93-mph fastball that was launched 375 feet into the right-field stands by ...

WASHINGTON — JR Ritchie was welcomed to the major leagues when Washington's James Wood homered on his first pitch. The 22-year-old right-hander rebounded to win his debut, leading the Atlanta Braves ...