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More Black than Purple Ritchie Blackmore, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Blackmore's Night and beyond. Later on Jim Kerney joined the team as the US correspondent. This time came in April 2014.

MORE BLACK THAN PURPLE was started in 1996 by Mark Welch (editor) and Jerry Bloom (subeditor) in order to publish up to date information about Ritchie Blackmore's then current career with his reformed band Rainbow, along with retro features. Owing to work commitments, within a few years Mark stepped down and Jerry took over as editor, bringing Alan Whitman on board as subeditor. Alan eventually st

epped down and in 2011 Phil Syphe became subeditor . Over recent years, the development of Jerry’s publishing company and the ever-increasing work schedule resulted in a constant struggle to keep producing magazines at regular intervals, meaning that it would eventually hit breaking point. Thus, after 18 years, Jerry decided to relinquish the magazine to Phil. Whether there’ll be future issues is uncertain. Although Jerry gave Phil the rights to MBTP, rather than selling it to him, he still needs to fund the next three magazines out of his own pocket, as well as covering postage costs. Issues 2-39 are available for purchase for as long as stocks last, as are the More Black than Purple magazine binders. Issue 1 has sold out but scans of every page are available to view on this page. A new website will be created sometime in 2015, featuring info on all back issues.

Remembering the great Ronnie James Dio on his birthday.
10/07/2025

Remembering the great Ronnie James Dio on his birthday.



Holy Diver DVD

Remembering the legendary Jon Lord on his birthday 🎹
09/06/2025

Remembering the legendary Jon Lord on his birthday 🎹

From the depths of the scene appears Bernie Marsden 32 years later https://youtu.be/bjAnOm1k2do

Happy 80th to the Great Ritchie Blackmore!
14/04/2025

Happy 80th to the Great Ritchie Blackmore!

Happy birthday 80 years old today and over 60 years of musical mastery. 3 amazing bands and incredible musical inspiration. You are loved worldwide! Tag him and if u see him trending snapshot and share! What's your favorite Blackmore songs, solo, moment or photo?

Remembering the late, Great Ronnie James Dio on his birthday.
10/07/2024

Remembering the late, Great Ronnie James Dio on his birthday.



Ronnie James Dio performing "Man On The Silver Mountain" on a US late night television show, "The Rock Palace." I believe this was recorded very shortly afte...

Remembering the wonderful Jon Lord on his birthday.
09/06/2024

Remembering the wonderful Jon Lord on his birthday.

Considero esta,uma contribuição imprescindivel ao mundo da musica,vocal e orquestra!!!

Happy Birthday, Ritchie!
14/04/2024

Happy Birthday, Ritchie!

Check out Deep Purple recorded on 5th February 1991 featuring Joe Lynn Turner on vocals and Ritchie Blackmore on fire on the guitar.Lazy - a Deep Purple clas...

Remembering the brilliant Ronnie James Dio on his birthday.
10/07/2023

Remembering the brilliant Ronnie James Dio on his birthday.

This is from Ronnie James Dio's 1998 performance in Sofia Bulgaria.

Remembering Jon Lord on his birthday.
09/06/2023

Remembering Jon Lord on his birthday.



Jon Lord on Zermatt Unplugged Live TV performing the Deep Purple classic HUSH

Happy Birthday to guitar virtuoso Ritchie Blackmore! 🎈🎸
14/04/2023

Happy Birthday to guitar virtuoso Ritchie Blackmore! 🎈🎸

With the release of the 25th anniversary edition of SHADOW OF THE MOON in March 2023, we take a look here at some beautiful vision of BLACKMORE'S NIGHT in Pa...

11/11/2022

Blackmore's Night, the group featuring ex-Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and his wife, Candice Night, has been making their brand of traditional mediev

24/10/2022

First pic taken with & DPMK3 At Deep Purple headquarters in Newman Street London.
This is the morning I joined.
Jon was overseas, and David had not Joined yet.
It was a beautiful Summer day,
In a beautiful decade …
You know we had no time …🔥

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