Ritchie Blackmore, Cozy Powell and Ronnie James Dio were sitting around a fireplace at a French château, drinking and trying to write songs for Rainbow’s Long Live Rock ’n’ Roll. The problem was, they ...

A rock and roll legend has is making a comeback after cancelling his last tour due to health issues. Ritchie Blackmore, the ...

The last time we heard from Ritchie Blackmore, in November 2025, he was headed out for a brief tour with his band, Blackmore’s Night. The road show ended abruptly after two nights “due to medical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "We've made a lot of progress between the first and second LPs," Blackmore told Hit Parader in 1976. "It's kind of more ...

Ritchie Blackmore's time with Deep Purple was clearly running out. As the guitar legend told us in a rare interview, he'd grown weary of being part of the future British hard rock legends' ongoing ...

The "Acoustic Space of Medieval Epics" and Gothic Reverberations Built by Ritchie and RonnieA serial series tracing the genealogy of human connections branching out from the giant tree of Hard Rock ...

A star-packed tribute to Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow drops June 19, featuring Deep Purple's Steve Morse and rock icons—reviving the hard rock fire for North American fans streaming classics today.

(Cleopatra) As the much-anticipated tribute to Richie Blackmore's Rainbow, Ride The Rainbow - The Ultimate Tribute To Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, draws closer to its June 19 release date, another ...

A TRIBUTE band is set to bring the sound of classic rock back to life.