ritchie blackmore

Birth name : Richard Hugh Blackmore
Born : 14 April 1945 (1945-04-14) (age 65)Weston-super-Mare, England
Genres : Hard rock, heavy metal, progressive rock, blues-rock, folk rock, neo-medieval
Occupations : Musician, songwriter
Instruments : Guitar, bass, mandolin, mandola, hurdy gurdy, cello, drums, percussion
Years active : 1961–present
Labels : Tetragrammaton, Warner Bros., Polydor, BMG, Pony Canyon, Yamaha Music, SPV
Associated acts : The Outlaws, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Blackmore's Night
Website : blackmoresnight.com

Richard Hugh "Ritchie" Blackmore (born 14 April 1945) is an English rock guitarist, best known for his work in Deep Purple, in addition to his solo band Rainbow where he was the sole constant band member through numerous personnel changes. His current folk rock duo is the Renaissance-influenced Blackmore's Night with his (now) wife Candice Night. While with Deep Purple and Rainbow, he changed his musical approach multiple times following each lead singers' departure and, as a result, confused and alienated many of his supporters. Blackmore started his music career as a session player in the early 1960s. He lives in the U.S. since mid-1970s.

Blackmore was born at Allandale Nursing Home, Weston-super-Mare, England, but moved to Heston, Middlesex at the age of two. He was 11 when he got his first guitar. His father bought it for him on certain conditions: "He said if I was going to play this thing, he was either going to have someone teach it to me properly, or he was going to smash me across the head with it. So I actually took the lessons for a year – classical lessons - and it got me on to the right footing, using all the fingers and the right strokes of the plectrum and the nonsense that goes with it."

Whilst at school he did well at sports including the Javelin. Blackmore left school at age 15 and started work as an apprentice radio mechanic at nearby Heathrow Airport. He was given guitar lessons by Big Jim Sullivan. He was influenced in his youth by early rockers like Hank Marvin.

His playing improved and in the early 1960s he started out as a session player for Joe Meek's music productions and performed in several bands. He was a member of the instrumental combo, The Outlaws, and backed Heinz (playing on his top ten hit "Just Like Eddie"), Screaming Lord Sutch, Glenda Collins and Neil Christian among others. While working for Joe Meek, he got to know engineer Derek Lawrence, who would later produce Deep Purple's first three albums. With organist Jon Lord he co-founded the hard rock group Deep Purple in 1968, and continued to be a member of Deep Purple from 1968–1975 and again from 1984-1993.

RITCHIE BLACKMORE
Title: STILL IM SAD
Album: RAINBOW


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