RITCHIE BLACKMORE Says His Onstage Reunion With DEEP PURPLE Went Down Like He 'Just Invented The Cure For Cancer': 'The People Went Nuts'
Blackmore played a brief "Smoke On The Water" encore, and Gillan said there was no bad blood after 35 years apart.
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RITCHIE BLACKMORE Says His Onstage Reunion With DEEP PURPLE Went Down Like He 'Just Invented The Cure For Cancer': 'The People Went Nuts'
In the first part of an exclusive 13-part interview series with Now Spinning magazine editor-in-chief Phil Aston, Ritchie Blackmore reflected on his reunion with DEEP PURPLE for the first time in more than three decades during the band's headlining concert on August 12 at the Northwell at Jones Beac...
Ritchie Blackmore Explains His Reunion Offer to Deep Purple
Ritchie Blackmore has revealed how his unexpected Deep Purple reunion came together, after he reached out to Ian Gillan with a simple request to join the band for one song. The guitarist also opened up about the emotional experience of sharing the stage with his former bandmates again after more than three decades apart.
Ritchie Blackmore apparently did not expect such a welcome. On August 12, the guitarist found Deep Purple on stage for the first time since 1993, playing Smoke On The Water. A few minutes that were enough to blow up the audience. "People went crazy" In an interview [...]
Guitar player played again with former companions after 33 years and recognized that there was plenty of room for things to go wrong.
Ritchie Blackmore evokes the public’s euphoria in his fleeting return to the stage with Deep Purple. The Blackmore entry on reunion with Deep Purple: “People went crazy” was first published at Metal Headquarters.
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