“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 ...

Rainbow, the band formed by Ritchie Blackmore, had a dynamic journey from heavy metal roots to a renaissance in the 80s, ...

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 ...

The 80-year-old Deep Purple guitarist's latest health issues come a year and a half after suffering a heart attack.

Ritchie Blackmore took the stage Friday at Loreley, Germany’s Monsters of Rock to perform the works of his two pioneering heavy metal groups – Deep Purple and Rainbow – for the first time in 19 years.

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 agency ...

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 ...