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Ritchie Blackmore Reunites With Deep Purple After 33 Years

by Paul Cashmere

Ritchie Blackmore returned to Deep Purple for the first time since 1993, joining the band for Smoke On The Water at Jones Beach in New York.

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Rainbow Rising

Rainbow Rising Turns 50 As Heavy Metal Landmark Continues To Shape The Genre

by Paul Cashmere

Rainbow’s Rising reaches its 50th anniversary as one of the defining albums in heavy metal history, featuring Ritchie Blackmore, Ronnie James Dio and the enduring classic “Stargazer”.

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Ritchie Blackmore Guitar Legend Lifetime Achievement Award

Ritchie Blackmore Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From The National Guitar Museum

by Paul Cashmere

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.

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Rainbow The Temple Of The King 1975–1976 9CD Boxset Cover Artwork

Rainbow The Temple Of The King 1975-1976 Captures The Birth Of A Hard Rock Legacy

by Paul Cashmere

Rainbow’s formative era with Ronnie James Dio is captured in The Temple Of The King 1975–1976, a new 9CD boxset featuring classic albums, live concerts and rare recordings

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Joe Lynn Turner

Joe Lynn Turner Stable After Heart Attack

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Joe Lynn Turner remains in the hospital after suffering a heart attack earlier in the week.

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Joe Lynn Turner

Former Deep Purple and Rainbow Singer Joe Lynn Turner Suffers Heart Attack

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Joe Lynn Turner, who sang with both Deep Purple and Rainbow, has suffered a heart attack and is hospitalized in Minsk, Belarus.

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Toto, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Choirboys Supergroup To Tour Australia

by Noise11.com

Bobby Kimball of Toto, Joe Lynn Turner of Deep Purple and Rainbow and Mark Gable of Choirboys will tour Australia in September.

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Ronnie James Dio hologram

Ronnie James Dio Resurrected As Hologram To Reunite With Band

by Paul Cashmere

Ronnie James Dio was back in his old band at the Wacken Festival in Germany on the weekend.

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Ritchie Blackmore

Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow Plays First Show Since 1997 And Just Check The Setlist

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

When Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow took the stage Friday night at Germany’s Monsters of Rock Festival, it was the first time he had played straight rock music in nineteen years.

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Graham Bonnet To Tour Australia New Zealand

by Paul Cashmere

Graham Bonnet will tour Australia and New Zealand in April 2016.

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R.I.P. Craig Gruber Of Rainbow 1951-2015

by Paul Cashmere

Craig Gruber, the original bass player for Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, has died from prostate cancer at age 64.

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Rainbow Box Set In Planning Stages

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

A new box set chronicling the career of the group Rainbow between 1975 and 1984 will possibly make it to the market before the end of the year.

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Jimmy Bain

Dio Bassist Jimmy Bain Arrested for DUI

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Jimmy Bain, the former bassist for Rainbow and Dio, was arrested for drunk driving following an car accident on Tuesday night in Burbank, CA.

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