Richie Blackmore is a brilliant English musician, multi-instrumentalist guitarist. This person is able to play absolutely on any subject that has strings. He is on the list of the best guitarists of the 20th century. For a long time he was a member of the cult group Deep Purple.
Biography
A talented guitarist was born in a small resort town in England in mid-April 1945. When the boy was two years old, the family went to Heston, where he opened a small store, which was managed by his mother, Violet Short. My father worked as a simple worker at a local airport. Richard was an extremely reserved and unsociable child.
He hated studying at school, with great difficulty made new acquaintances and often cursed with teachers. Once, his parents decided to arrange a surprise for him and invited all the children they knew to celebrate his next birthday. Upon learning of this, little Richie locked himself in the attic and spent the whole day there - until everyone left.
Due to the bad nature and complete reluctance to study with Blackmore, there were big problems with grades at school. When the time came for exams, followed by transfer to high school, Richie failed and failed the test. After which he finally abandoned his studies and got a job as a mechanic. In his spare time, he learned the basics of improvisation on an electric guitar in a music school.
Career
The first fame came to Richie Blackmore in the early 1960s. Having replaced more than one team, he joined the team of The Savages. But he didn’t stay there for a long time, in his searches he was also for some time in the team of The Outlaws. This team was distinguished by the shocking nature of its actions and defiant behavior, for which the participants were regularly arrested.
In 1968, a truly significant event took place in the life of Blackmore - his acquaintance drummer assembled the band and offered a place to a talented guitarist, the band planned to be called Roundabout, but later Chris Curtis abandoned this idea and left his friends. The idea to name the assembled group Deep Purple was proposed by Richie himself.
The team became the discoverer, and then the flagship of hard rock. The first albums saw the light in the same year, an unusual team quickly gained popularity and began to actively tour the country. Over seven years of fruitful work, Deep Purple has accumulated a lot of luggage from a dozen albums and a huge number of hits. But within the team of ambitious musicians problems were brewing, which ultimately resulted in a big scandal. In 1975, after touring in support of the next album, the group announced a breakup.
At the same time, Ritchie Blackmore gathered his own team, which he called Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, but the name did not take root and later turned into a laconic Rainbow. The group was a great success and in the entire history of its existence has created 8 numbered albums and acquired its own hits.
In 1997, Blackmore decided to move away from the canons of hard rock and created with his beloved Candice Knight the Blackmore's Night team, whose main direction is folk rock. The group exists to this day, periodically releases new songs and gives concerts. Since 2015, Blackmore reassembled Rainbow and works on two fronts.
