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 ...

Rainbow originally started out with band members from Ronnie James Dio’s American rock band, Elf, but Blackmore fired everyone except Dio. He was notorious for hiring and firing musicians and ...

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 ...

But it could have been so different. In the brand new issue of Classic Rock magazine, Gillan reveals that his former nemesis Blackmore asked him join Rainbow, the band the guitarist founded after ...

The guitarist left Deep Purple for good in 1993; he then briefly rebooted Rainbow before starting Blackmore’s Night with ...

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.

Rock’n’roll legend Ritchie Blackmore is returning for a one-off show to bring you all the anthems of Deep Purple and Rainbow… ...

The offer came over Christmas 1978, when Blackmore visited Gillan with an invitation to join Rainbow, around the time of original singer Ronnie James Dio’s departure. But despite Rainbow’s ...

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 ...