Ex-DEEP PURPLE Keyboardist Performs With Moscow Symphony Orchestra; Video Available

October 15, 2009

Former DEEP PURPLE keyboardist played his trademark Hammond organ and keyboards earlier tonight (Thursday, October 15) in Moscow, Russia together with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and Hungarian band CRY FREE. They performed a "Concerto for Group and Orchestra" as well as famous DEEP PURPLE hits, including "Soldier Of Fortune" and "Child In Time".

Video footage of the performance can be viewed below.

In an interview with RussiaToday.com, Lord explained how the role of rock music changed over the years.

"When rock was young, it was a rebellion," he said. "But it was not a political rebellion. It was a rebellion of young people against their parents' generation. It was them saying 'This is our music. It's not yours!' The more the parents said, 'It's loud, it's horrible, we hate it,' the more young people said, 'Good!' Now you've got people of an older generation who are still playing rock 'n' roll music like me or THE ROLLING STONES or U2, for example. The rebellion of young against old has finished. Rock music has grown wider, I think. What it is still used for is, perhaps a little bit more, a political rebellion. Young people are saying ‘this is my voice, this is what I want you to understand about me as a young person'. And I think that is a rebellion that is in music now."

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