Jon Lord
English composer, pianist, and Hammond organ player (1941–2012)
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United KingdomJon Lord welded Bach to Marshall stacks and made the Hammond organ scream like a guitar. His classical-meets-thunder sound at the keyboard didn't just define Deep Purple—it helped invent heavy metal.
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John Douglas Lord was born 9 June 1941 in England and played in several bands—the Artwoods, the Flower Pot Men, Santa Barbara Machine Head—before 1968, when he co-founded Deep Purple. He and drummer Ian Paice were the only constants through the band's original run to 1976, then again from its 1984 revival until Lord retired in 2002. In between and after, he played for Whitesnake and Paice Ashton Lord. His organ work on Deep Purple's hardest records became essential to the band's signature weight and to the early shape of heavy metal itself. In 2010 Stevenson College in Edinburgh made him an Ho…
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- To Notice Such Things2010
- Jon Lord: Durham Concerto2007
- Beyond the Notes2004
- Pictured Within1998
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