Ritchie Blackmore
Birthday
1945/04/14 (79 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
Also know as
Blackmore’s Night, Deep Purple
Biography
Richard Hugh Blackmore (born 14 April 1945) is an English guitarist and songwriter. He was one of the founding members of Deep Purple in 1968, playing jam-style hard rock music that mixed guitar riffs and organ sounds. Blackmore is prolific in creating guitar riffs and is often noted for his classically influenced solos. During his solo career, Blackmore established the heavy metal band Rainbow, which fused baroque music influences and elements of hard rock. Rainbow steadily moved to catchy po...Read more
Acting
(2005) Deep Purple: Live in concert 72/73
as Guitar
(2005) Deep Purple: Live in California '74
as Guitar
(1991) Deep Purple: Heavy Metal Pioneers
as Himself
(2002) Classic Albums: Deep Purple - Machine Head
as Self
(1993) Deep Purple: Come Hell or High Water
as Guitar
(2009) Deep Purple - History, Hits & Highlights '68-'76
as ---
(2014) Made in Japan: The Rise of Deep Purple Mk II
as Himself
(1979) Rainbow - Coloring New Jersey
as Guitar
(2006) Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow - Live At Budokan 1984
as Guitar
(1970) Deep Purple: Konsert för grupp och orkester
as Himself - Guitar
(2000) Deep Purple: New, Live & Rare - The Video Collection 1984-2000
as guitar
(1970) Deep Purple – Doing Their Thing
as guitar
(2012) Blackmore's Night A Knight In York
as Guitars
(2006) Guitar Legends: The Ultimate Anthology
as Guitar
(1971) Deep Purple in Montreux
as Self
(2010) Deep Purple - Deepest Purple
as Himself - Guitar
(2010) Rainbow: Live in Japan 1984
as Himself
(2013) Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers Live
as Guitars
(2013) Rainbow: Black Masquerade
as Guitars
(2001) The Best of Musikladen: Vol. One
as Self
(2014) The Joy of the Guitar Riff
as Self (archive footage)
(1985) Rainbow: The Final Cut
as Himself
(2016) Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow - Memories in Rock - Live in Germany
as Guitar
(1974) Deep Purple - California Jam 1974
as guitar
(2014) Play It Loud: The Story of Marshall
as Self
(2006) Rainbow: Live in Munich 1977
as Guitar
(1963) Live It Up!
as Guitarist "The Outlaws"
(2008) Ritchie Blackmore: Guitar Gods
as ---
(2011) Deep Purple: Phoenix Rising
as Himself
(1972) Deep Purple: Made In Japan
as Self
(2008) Deep Purple In Rock
as Himself - Guitar
(2007) Blackmore's Night: Paris Moon
as ---
(2005) Blackmore's Night Castles and Dreams
as ---
(2002) Blackmore's Night: Under a Violet Moon Castle Tour 2000
as ---
(2004) Deep Purple: Rock Review 1969-1972
as Himself (Archive Material)
(1979) Rainbow - Live at The Capitol Theater, Passaic NJ
as ---
(2015) The Ritchie Blackmore Story
as Himself
(1997) Blackmores Night: Shadow of the moon
as ---
(2004) Blackmores Night: Beyond The Sunset
as ---
(2004) Blackmores Night: Shadow of the moon & Beyond the sunset
as ---
(2013) Blackmores Night: Dancer and the Moon
as ---
(2015) Blackmores Night: All Our Yesterdays
as ---
(2005) Blackmore's Night Castles and Dreams 2005 (Bonus)
as ---
(1999) Blackmores Night: Shadow of the Moon – Live In Germany 1997–1998
as ---
(1966) 4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet
as Self
(1997) Classic Albums
as Self
(1986) ZDF-Fernsehgarten
as Self
(1993) Weihnachten bei uns
as Self