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Ritchie Blackmore
real name Richard Hugh Blackmore
Weston-super-Mare, United Kingdom
Ritchie Blackmore is credited on 6,868 releases across 1,153 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1963–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
6,868
Credits
1,153
Albums
7
Decades active
1,064
In collections
Biography
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English guitarist & songwriter best known as a founding member of Deep Purple and his Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow.
Born: April 14, 1945, Weston Super Mare, England.
He is now performing English Folk with his wife Candice Night as Blackmore's Night.
Blackmore is one of the most influential guitarists of the Rock era.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
6,868 releases · 1,153 albums · active 1963–2026
- Performance · 17,106
- Other credits · 579
- Production · 334
- Engineering · 2
Studios: De Lane Lea Studios · Musicland Studios · Royal Albert Hall · Abbey Road Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Machine Head
1972
Holy Diver
1983
Made In Japan
1972
Hardwired...To Self-Destruct
2016
Deep Purple In Rock
1970
The Last In Line
1984
Rainbow Rising
1976
Burn
1974
Perfect Strangers
1984
Ghost Reveries
2005
Stormbringer
1974
Long Live Rock 'N' Roll
1978
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
1975
Live At Reading
2009
Sacred Heart
1985
Who Do We Think We Are
1973
Fireball
1971
Slip Of The Tongue
1989
Deepest Purple (The Very Best Of Deep Purple)
1980
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
1980
Born Again
1983
Dazed And Confused (Music From The Motion Picture)
1993
Straight Between The Eyes
1982
Shades Of Deep Purple
1968
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Deep Purple
- Rainbow
- Blackmore's Night
- Dio (2)
- Whitesnake
- Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
- Gillan
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