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Black Knight: The Enduring Rock Legacy Of Ritchie Blackmore

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One of the world’s greatest guitarists, born on April 14, 1945, is a deserving subject of a career-overview playlist, and so we present Ritchie Blackmore In 20 Songs. Of course, you’d need five times that number to do full justice to the English guitar virtuoso’s contribution to British rock, especially as his recording carer stretches over more than 55 years. But we’ve compiled a 94-minute snapshot that embraces his early sessions, his work wit…
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As the main musical architect behind not one, but two of the three core groups of heavy metal, Deep Purple and Rainbow, and with a well-deserved reputation as one of the greatest guitar gods in history, Ritchie Blackmore’s influence is hard to exaggerate. And as well as his legendary truculence, for example, is the now iconic incident in California Jam in 1974. The moment when Blackmore destroyed a television camera with his guitar to compensate…

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uDiscover Music broke the news on Tuesday, April 14, 2026.
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