He’d formed the band in equal partnership with Ronnie James Dio, but the singer soon discovered things wouldn’t be so ...

In keeping, a subsequent return to Rainbow seemed perhaps inevitable at the time. Only new singer Doogie White was no Turner, to say nothing of Ronnie James Dio – or even Graham Bonnet. Rainbow's ...

Over the years, Ritchie Blackmore had maintained a hard-nosed stance against ever playing rock music again, instead opting to keep his focus on the Renaissance project Blackmore's Night. Last year, he ...

In February 1979, Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow gathered together at Chateau Pelly de Cornfeld, a 13th-century castle in the foothills of the French Alps. Picture-postcard Geneva was a short drive over ...

Ronnie Romero, Jens Johansson, David Keith and Bob Nouveau now flank the iconic six-stringer and, together, they brought Rainbow back to the stage with an exclusive series of festival performances in ...

“I think that Ronnie is a very good performer and he gives the rest of us the freedom to concentrate on what we're doing,” Blackmore told Eclipsed Rock Magazine (via Rainbow Fan Clan). “For some time ...

Ritchie Blackmore is of that generation of British guitarists who learned their craft the hard way, slogging round the studios playing sessions. He was part of Joe Meek’s session crew, played in the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's been a long time since we've seen Ritchie Blackmore wringing fiery riffage from his iconic ...

Just when the rock world wrote him off as a Renaissance musician, Ritchie Blackmore has had a rock n' roll renaissance. Sort of. By Gary Graff Just when the rock world wrote him off as a Renaissance ...

The problem with musical mavericks is things can just as easily go south as stratospheric. Perhaps Ritchie Blackmore mused on that as he spent two nights in a Vienna police cell after the band's ...

Over much of the last 20 years, former Deep Purple guitarist and Rainbow mainstay Ritchie Blackmore has disappeared down a renaissance rock wormhole with his band Blackmore's Night, but those ...