Former Deep Purple bandmates Ian Gillan and Ritchie Blackmore have had ... Gillan reveals that his former nemesis Blackmore asked him join Rainbow, the band the guitarist founded after leaving ...

For more than 30 years, bassist Bob Daisley laid the foundations on which some of the greatest rock and roll ever was built ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was with this line-up that he produced Since You Been Gone. Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow is still touring in 2019 (Blackmore has changed the line-up several times since 1979) and in an ...

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's Blood, a tribute to Ritchie Blackmore, one of the founding members of Deep Purple, will be performing at The Brickyard in Carlisle. The show will take place on Friday, February 26, 2026.

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 ...

Brian May, Lars Ulrich and Gene Simmons are among those paying tribute to The Outlaws and Rainbow guitarist Ritchie Blackmore. This is the definitive story of a true ...