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“David invited me to his hotel. He asked me to go on tour as his live guitarist. I said no”: Robert Fripp on his landmark David Bowie sessions – and why he didn’t join the legendary singer on tour

When David Bowie needed a unique guitar voice for Heroes, he called Robert Fripp. In his own words, the King Crimson founder recalls those heady days “by the Wall”

Guitar World

What Ritchie Blackmore thinks of Yngwie Malmsteen: “He’s probably the best at what he does and – for what it’s worth – the fastest”

As Malmsteen’s guitar hero, Blackmore’s fingerprints are all over the Swedish shredder’s gear choices and repertoire

Guitar World

Deep Purple guitarist says reunion tour ‘could be the last time we see each other’

Ritchie Blackmore returned to perform with the British rock band last week, more than 30 years after he left the group

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Ritchie Blackmore thinks Deep Purple reunion could be 'last time' bandmates see each other

Ritchie Blackmore has opened up about his "emotional" recent Deep Purple reunion, and why it felt so special.

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Deep Purple guitarist Simon McBride on sharing the stage with Ritchie Blackmore: “If I can play that well when I’m that age, I’ll be happy. People should look at it for what it was – a magical night”

Deep Purple’s current guitar player was caught off-guard when the band got the call from Blackmore. But as he tells Guitar World, he was very happy to be his rhythm guitarist that night

Guitar World

“I wasn’t there to play correct notes. I was there to see old friends”: Ritchie Blackmore opens up on his Deep Purple reunion performance

Blackmore has hit back at critics of his playing in Smoke on the Water

Guitar World

"I was there to heal any wounds." Ritchie Blackmore reflects on "emotional" onstage reunion with Deep Purple

Ritchie Blackmore says his recent onstage reunion with Deep Purple was about more than being note perfect

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“One of the secrets that they will deny to this day was that they could not come up with the sound that I wanted”: Why Ritchie Blackmore’s iconic Marshall stacks were actually Vox amps in disguise

Back in the ’70s, the Deep Purple guitarist was on the hunt for a specific sound, look and wattage, so the Marshall team found a way to get the best of all worlds (even if it meant using a rivals’ components)

Guitar World

The guitar genius of Ritchie Blackmore in 5 classic tracks: “There is nothing cooler on record than the dimension-altering alliance of Blackmore, Roger Glover’s bass and Lord’s Hammond organ”

With Blackmore returning onstage with Deep Purple for the first time since '93, we unpack his explosive talents over a handful of tracks (none of which are Smoke On The Water)

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Watch Ritchie Blackmore perform onstage with Deep Purple for the first time in more than 30 years: "A couple of days ago I got a message from a local lad, ‘I only live ‘round the corner – do you mind if I come and jam?’

Blackmore joined his former bandmates for a storming rendition of Smoke On The Water

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Ritchie Blackmore reunites with Deep Purple for the first time in 33 years – watch him play Smoke on the Water

The rock guitar legend announced he’d hatched surprise plans to join the band on stage earlier this year

Guitar World

Ritchie Blackmore reunites with Deep Purple for first performance in 33 years

Ritchie Blackmore made a surprise return to Deep Purple’s stage after more than three decades, joining the band in New York for a special performance of Smoke on the Water.

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Watch "The Great Legend, the Immortal" Ritchie Blackmore return to the stage with Deep Purple for the first time in 33 years

The ice has thawed: Ritchie Blackmore has performed with Deep Purple for the first time in more than three decades

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The explosive story of Ritchie Blackmore’s bitter exit from Deep Purple: “Ian Gillan has got a strange obnoxious side to him which is a side I don’t like”

If Ritchie Blackmore really does rejoin Deep Purple onstage for the first time in 33 years, it will be an incredible turnaround

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Ritchie Blackmore to reunite with Deep Purple for the first time in over 30 years: “I changed my strings on my Strat, which I haven't done in over 25 years”

The last time Blackmore wielded his Strat with the Smoke on the Water legends was back in 1993

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Ritchie Blackmore is planning on playing with Deep Purple tonight, an occurrence more rare than today's total solar eclipse

Ritchie Blackmore will join Deep Purple onstage tonight for the first time since 1993

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Ritchie Blackmore to reunite with Deep Purple onstage for the first time in 33 years

Ritchie Blackmore will join Deep Purple for a one‑song encore at their New York show, marking his first performance with the band since 1993.

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Ritchie Blackmore to play with Deep Purple for the first time since ’93 tonight: “Well, it is a secret, and I don’t want anybody to know, but I’m probably going up to do an encore”

Blackmore sent his “AI pigeon” to ask Ian Gillan and got the thumbs up from the band, and now it is all systems go for tonight’s show in Wantagh, NY

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From Hendrix’s pyrotechnics to Cory Wong’s hot-buttered funk, for 72 years the Strat has revolutionized how we play guitar. These are the 25 players who wrote – and burnt – the playbook

The Fender Stratocaster would just be a glorified carpentry project without the players who danced across its neck and gave it life. Here we celebrate 25 of the best

Guitar World

“Bob Ezrin was recording and I changed to a different guitar. Within five seconds, he stopped the tape and said, ‘There’s something wrong…’” Simon McBride on Deep Purple’s new golden age of heavy

The band's fleet-fingered, PRS-toting guitar-slinger tells GW how the rock legends nailed their ‘70s sound in the 21st century on their new album, and the pedal people would be surprised to hear is on his 'board...

Guitar World

“I asked David, ‘Any suggestions?’ He said, ‘Think Ritchie Blackmore.’ I didn’t expect that”: When David Bowie asked Robert Fripp to play like a Deep Purple legend

Fripp had made magical contributions to Bowie's masterpiece, Heroes, just a few years earlier – but this time the legend had something very different in mind…

Guitar World

“He fired a shotgun out of a window into a bird sanctuary. When we heard the bang, we said to the tour manager, ‘You need to take that gun off him!’” The Sweet's last man standing Andy Scott on wild times and triumphs in glam's most influential band

The guitar history of the Sweet, one of the best-loved bands of the glam era, who splashed color, fun and rock-solid riffs across the ’70s pop world – and influenced a generation in the process

Guitar World

“His death was an incredible loss, not only for the band but for guitar fans as well”: Every Deep Purple guitarist, from Blackmore to McBride

The British rock pioneers have survived almost continuously since 1968, partly because of their ability to choose the right players to stand in Ritchie Blackmore’s place

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"He said he did these big gigs to make money, but what he enjoyed best was playing in churches and castles with his missus." Russ Ballard's wild tales of Ritchie Blackmore, The Beatles, Robert Plant, Ozzy Osbourne and more

Go-to songwriter, solo artist and former Argent guitarist/singer Russ Ballard hung out with The Beatles, is mates with Roger Daltrey and heard Elvis stories from Robert Plant

MusicRadar

“I decided to give up the guitar when I heard Eric Clapton, the way people are put off playing tennis when they watch Roger Federer”: Jethro Tull legend Ian Anderson on why he plays the flute – and why Ritchie Blackmore is ‘definitely not mad’

“I found the flute gave me something very interesting melodically”

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