Ritchie Blackmore returned to the Deep Purple, but did not last long

Banging the door Ritchie Blackmore He had gone from Deep Purple In 1975 to form the Rainbowhe would never have thought that nine years later he would return to it. When he returned with Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Ian Gillan And Roger Glover Not everything went in the right direction. So much so that the band came almost to the point of exploding.

Although he was satisfied with his rainbow, Blackmore explained in an interview that returned to the Deep Purple For what seemed to be a good reason: money.

“I was very happy with the Rainbow and we were going quite well, then Ian Gillan arrived and said, ‘let’s meet.’ He convinced me, he spoke of a lot of money, and then I said, ‘Ok, I will be there.’ “.

At the beginning things seemed to go very well, with the album “Perfect Strangers”in 1984, i Deep Purple They went back to the radio after several years. They returned to being high in the standings and took a long tour around the world. Just on tour the group began to creak. Blackmore says: “I think that ‘Perfect Strangers’ was a good LP. I felt comfortable with the band and thought, I think we will make another one, which was a mistake, because I think I played shit.”

Yet, according to Blackmore, it was not just him who was not on fire, so much so that he declared: “I don’t think someone else really got passionate about me; for me, it was a bit of a disaster.” In 1987 i
Deep Purple
With the same training they released the album
“The House of Blue Light”
but something had broken again inside the band and two years later, in 1989, the singer
Ian Gillan
was fired due to the growing tensions with
Ritchie Blackmore
. To take his place was the former singer of
Rainbow Joe Lynn Turner
But, as it is told in fairy tales, this is another story.