RITCHIE BLACKMORE: New Video Interview Available
December 18, 2006A video interview with legendary guitarist Ritchie Blackmore (DEEP PURPLE, RAINBOW, BLACKMORE'S NIGHT) and his fiancée/BLACKMORE'S NIGHT singer Candice Night has been posted online at Google Video (courtesy of the Artisan News Service).
In other news, BLACKMORE'S NIGHT's holiday album, "Winter Carols", has entered the Top 100 New Age/Ambient/World Radio/Internet Airwaves Chart at position No. 4, according to NewAgeReporter.com.
As previously reported, an audio interview with Ritchie Blackmore, conducted on December 2, 2006 by the Italian public radio RadioUno (as part of its "Stereonotte" program),has been made available as a podcast at this location. The questions are in Italian, but you can hear the answers in English direcly from Blackmore's own mouth. Topics covered are mainly BLACKMORE'S NIGHT-related, but Ritchie also talks briefly about DEEP PURPLE and RAINBOW, and explains why he chose to cover RAINBOW's "Street of Dreams" and DEEP PURPLE's "Child in Time" with BLACKMORE'S NIGHT, as well as why he sometimes plays "Smoke on the Water" live with his current band.
(Thanks: Mike Garrett / Ritchie Blackmore Fans In Lincolnshire)
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