Born Ronald James Padavona, Dio's career began in the late 1950s with groups like Ronnie & The Red Caps, Ronnie Dio & The ...

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 keeping, a subsequent return to Rainbow seemed perhaps inevitable at the time. Only new singer Doogie White was no Turner, to say nothing of Ronnie James Dio – or even Graham Bonnet. Rainbow's ...

May was in his early 20s by the end of the 1960s. Although Rory Gallagher would have the greatest influence on his guitar ...

Although Ritchie Blackmore wrote many classics with Deep Purple, there is one that embarrasses him more than any other.

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 ...

“Fast forward to day before rehearsals and we contacted Glenn to see when he was going to fly in, and he wasn't aware that he wasn't going to be the lead singer at all. So I understood his situation, ...

Deep Purple/Rainbow guitarist Ritchie Blackmore has been playing traditional folk music with his new band Blackmore’s Night for the past two decades. But last night, as UltimateClassicRock reports, at ...

White fronted the version of Rainbow that recorded the 1995 Stranger in Us All, Blackmore's last studio hard rock release. This was the band Blackmore took on the road in between his final farewell to ...

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 ...