Ritchie Blackmore
British guitarist
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Born 1945 · age 81United Kingdom
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Guitar architect behind Deep Purple's hard rock blueprint and Rainbow's baroque metal odyssey. Blackmore spent the '60s sharpening his craft through session work before co-founding two of rock's most structurally ambitious bands.
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Richard Hugh Blackmore is an English guitarist, who was a co-founding member of Deep Purple, Rainbow and Blackmore's Night. In the 1960s, he began his professional career in bands such as the Outlaws and Screaming Lord Sutch & the Savages, and worked as a session guitarist for singers such as Glenda Collins, Heinz, Neil Christian and others.
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