Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deep inside a German castle, Ritchie Blackmore sits at a long table, dressed in medieval garb and clutching a goblet of mead. A ...

Ritchie Blackmore's time with Deep Purple was clearly running out. As the guitar legend told us in a rare interview, he'd grown weary of being part of the future British hard rock legends' ongoing ...

Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore was an integral part of the 1960s rock scene, creating some of the most iconic riffs of all time (i.e., “Smoke On The Water”) and keeping his finger on the ...

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There are a plethora of reasons why musicians leave bands, but musical differences amongst the members is perhaps one of the biggest. Ritchie Blackmore was one of the founders of Deep Purple in 1968, ...

Ritchie Blackmore, longtime guitarist of iconic band Deep Purple, suffered a heart attack causing his career to be paused. The musician’s wife, Candice Night, recently revealed Blackmore suffered a ...

Renowned rock guitarist Ritchie Blackmore has finally opened up about his reasons for leaving the group Deep Purple in the 1990s. Blackmore left Deep Purple permanently in 1993, according to Ulitmate ...

Written in five minutes, the song remains a rock classic 45 years later.