The offer came over Christmas 1978, when Blackmore visited Gillan with an invitation to join Rainbow, around the time of ...

MOSCOW, October 13. /TASS/. Former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore will play concerts in Russia with his legendary band Rainbow in the spring of 2018, a spokesperson with the concert ...

Rainbow originally started out with band members from Ronnie James Dio’s American rock band, Elf, but Blackmore fired everyone except Dio. He was notorious for hiring and firing musicians and ...

Ritchie Blackmore will always be best known for the titanic riff he supplied to 'Smoke on the Water,' but there's more to the guitarist than Deep Purple. He also co-founded Rainbow, a band that ...

Rock’n’roll legend Ritchie Blackmore is returning for a one-off show to bring you all the anthems of Deep Purple and Rainbow… ...

Blackmore has a reputation for being rock music’s “angriest man” and being difficult to work for. Twenty-six musicians were members of Rainbow over the years. Blackmore has strong views ...