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Founding Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore has received the Lifetime Achievement award from The National GUITAR Museum.

Ritchie Blackmore has been named the 2025 recipient of The National GUITAR Museum’s Lifetime Achievement Award, honouring his groundbreaking work with Deep Purple, Rainbow and Blackmore’s Night.

"The guy that sticks out at the moment is Steve Vai. He’s really shit-hot," former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore said in the 1980s.

Ritchie Blackmore has offered an official statement explaining the medical issues that forced him to cancel his most recent tour. In a post on his official Facebook page which you can read in full ...

As questions swirl about Ritchie Blackmore’s health, his wife and bandmate, Candice Night, reveals “there's the three main issues with him” prevent the guitarist from going back out on the road with ...

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Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore was an integral part of the 1960s rock scene, creating some of the most iconic riffs of all time (i.e., “Smoke On The Water”) and keeping his finger on the ...

Ritchie Blackmore, best known as the founding member and the lead guitarist of Deep Purple, is standing by his musical taste. While it makes sense that he wouldn’t necessarily like music that most ...