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Jon Lord
John Douglas "Jon" Lord was an English keyboardist and composer. In 1968, Lord co-founded the hard rock band Deep Purple. Lord performed on most of the band's most popular songs; he and drummer Ian Paice were the only continuous members in the band between 1968 and 1976, and also from its revival in 1984 until his retirement in 2002. He also played for the bands Whitesnake, Paice Ashton Lord, the…
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culture · English musician and composer (1941–2012) · composer · pianist · organist · songwriter · electronic organ · author · musician · also Jon Lord, John Douglas Lord, John “Jon” Douglas Lord, John Lord, Lord
Born 9 June 1941 · Died 16 July 2012 · Q192114
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2026· 8 entries
Mshale: Deep Purple - Isolated - Ritchie Blackmore & Jon Lord - Might Just Take Your Life Ocean Koi (oUtyQ857ur)
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Mshale: Jon Lord Discusses His Time Working With Ritchie Blackmore In Deep Purple. Bruce Cassidy (9IVqIwe9oD)
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Mshale: Deep Purple - Isolated - Ritchie Blackmore & Jon Lord - Anyone's Daughter Orioles - Marlins (1BMt1VXYSr)
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Mshale: Deep Purple - Isolated - Ritchie Blackmore & Jon Lord - Demon's Eye Flowers (GHrwnndHNY)
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Mshale: Smoke On The Water 1972 Deep Purple Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillian, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, Ian Insurance (jBqPvzpf2v)
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Mshale: Jon Lord Presents Deep Purple's Smash Hit Album And Single FIREBALL From 1971 Al Hilal (ZRGqH9G3AG)
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2012· 5 entries
Released album “Concerto for Group and Orchestra”.
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Yahoo! Sports: Deep Purple's Jon Lord dies at age 71
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Died 2012-07-16.
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With the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra performing, conducted by long-time collaborator, conductor Paul Mann
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Music critic Terence Towles Canote wrote shortly after Lord's death: "While many of his contemporaries would turn to the Moog synthesiser, Jon Lord continued to rely primarily on the Hammond organ
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2011· 2 entries
Released album “Live”.
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As a live album and DVD, and subsequently reissued on vinyl
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2010· 1 entry
Released album “To Notice Such Things”.
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “Boom of the Tingling Strings”.
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2007· 3 entries
Released album “Danger: White Men Dancing”.
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Lord joined Derek Griffiths, Colin Martin and Malcolm Pool at an Artwoods reunion at the ART Tribute night, at York House in Twickenham
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Released album “Jon Lord: Durham Concerto”.
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2006· 1 entry
And released in April 2008 on EMI Classics
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “Beyond the Notes”.
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2003· 2 entries
Released album “Live at the Basement”.
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Also returned to his beloved R&B and blues heritage to record an album of standards in Sydney, with Australia's Jimmy Barnes, entitled Live in the Basement, by Jon Lord and the Hoochie Coochie Men
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2002· 1 entry
When he passed it to successor Don Airey
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “Pictured Within”.
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1997· 1 entry
Created perhaps his most personal work to date, Pictured Within, released in 1998 with a European tour to support it
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “The Best”.
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1993· 1 entry
Released album “First of the Big Bands: BBC 1 in Concert”.
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1990· 1 entry
Released album “Castle Masters Collection: Jon Lord”.
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1984· 1 entry
Resulted in huge audiences for the reformed "Mk II" line-up, including 1985's second largest grossing tour in the US and an appearance in front of 80,000 rain-soaked fans headlining Knebworth on 22 June 1985, all to supp
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “Before I Forget”.
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1977· 1 entry
Recorded at Musicland Studios at the Arabella Hotel in Munich
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1976· 1 entry
Released album “Sarabande”.
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1974· 1 entry
Released album “Windows”.
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1973· 3 entries
In Copenhagen, at the impressionable age of 9, Deep Purple has been the most constant, continuous and inspiring musical presence in my life
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Lord's original Hammond C3 malfunctioned and he bought another from Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac
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And Blackmore in 1975, and the band disintegrated in 1976
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1971· 1 entry
Released album “Gemini Suite”.
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1970· 1 entry
And now recognised as one of hard rock's key early works
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1968· 1 entry
Lord co-founded the hard rock band Deep Purple
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1967· 2 entries
To promote its hit single "Let's Go to San Francisco", but the two never recorded with this band
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And earlier by the personal direction he received from British organ pioneer Graham Bond
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1960· 1 entry
With the jazz ensemble The Bill Ashton Combo
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1941· 1 entry
Born 1941-06-09.
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