Ritchie Blackmore
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Legendary music photographer Ross Halfin has announced a huge new Ritchie Blackmore book, limited to just 400 copies
By Matt Parker published
Running to more than 300 pages, the book collects together hundreds of unpublished images from the guitarist’s time with Rainbow in the early 1980s

Petition launched for Ritchie Blackmore’s hometown to honor the guitarist with historic blue plaque
By Matt Parker published
The petition seeks to pay homage to the Deep Purple and Rainbow guitar hero in his native Weston-super-Mare

How to play blues like Ritchie Blackmore
By Richard Barrett published
This solo workout goes deep into Deep Purple MkII-era Blackmore and unpacks his electric blues style in detail

Catalinbread unleashes Ritchie Blackmore-inspired double-pedal boxset
By Matt Owen published
These trippy-looking offerings aim to sound as good as they look by way of period-accurate appointments and like-for-like preamp and treble booster circuitry

Ritchie Blackmore wields his Fender Strat once more on bluesy Blackmore's Night instrumental, Der letzte Musketier (The Last Musketeer)
By Sam Roche published
The Deep Purple legend offers up some tasteful electric blues lines in this cut taken from the band's new album, Nature's Light

How to play guitar like 7 Fender Strat icons
By Chris Bird published
Master the tones and techniques of 7 legendary Stratocaster players

Steve Morse says he combined Ritchie Blackmore and Joe Satriani's playing styles for his first Deep Purple gig
By Sam Roche published
"That's what I brought – to make the other guys feel comfortable," the shredder recalls

Ritchie Blackmore and William Shatner team up to cover B.B. King’s The Thrill is Gone
By Michael Astley-Brown published
The track will appear on Shatner’s forthcoming star-studded album, The Blues
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