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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deep Purple/Rainbow guitarist Ritchie Blackmore has been playing traditional folk music with his new band Blackmore's Night for ...

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 ...

Ritchie Blackmore’s time with Deep Purple was clearly running out. As the guitar legend told us in a rare interview, he’d ...

“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, ...

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.

Former Deep Purple guitarist and Rainbow mastermind Ritchie Blackmore has always loved performing live. For the past 25 years ...

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Ritchie Blackmore still doesn't sound like he has much interest in reviving his career as a rock guitarist — but he also doesn't seem to be ruling out another return to that part of his past. "We had ...