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ZeusJupiter
Jul 16, 2012, 2:14:34 PM7/16/12
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Jon Lord, founder of Deep Purple, dies aged 71
Jon Lord co-wrote many of Deep Purple's hits including Smoke On The Water
Jon Lord, the former keyboard player with rock band Deep Purple, has
died aged 71.
Lord, who co-wrote many of the group's legendary songs including Smoke
On The Water, had been receiving treatment for pancreatic cancer since
last August.
He co-founded Deep Purple in 1968 and also played with bands including
Whitesnake during his career.
He died at the London Clinic on Monday, surrounded by family. "Jon
passes from Darkness to Light," a statement said.
A classically-trained pianist, Lord was influenced by blues and jazz but
approached his Hammond organ with a rock attitude and helped Deep Purple
become pioneers of progressive and heavy rock.
The band established their sound and success at the start of the 1970s
with albums including Deep Purple in Rock and Machine Head.
The group split up in 1976 but reformed in 1984 and the line-up has
undergone numerous changes over the years, with Lord a mainstay until he
left 2002.
In its classic years, the band also included guitarist Ritchie
Blackmore, singer Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover.
Born in Leicester on 9 June, 1941, Jon Lord began playing piano and
taking classical music lessons from an early age.
He received a scholarship to drama school in London at the age of 19,
during which time he began playing jazz and rhythm and blues in pub gigs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18864409
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Jon Lord co-wrote many of Deep Purple's hits including Smoke On The Water
Jon Lord, the former keyboard player with rock band Deep Purple, has
died aged 71.
Lord, who co-wrote many of the group's legendary songs including Smoke
On The Water, had been receiving treatment for pancreatic cancer since
last August.
He co-founded Deep Purple in 1968 and also played with bands including
Whitesnake during his career.
He died at the London Clinic on Monday, surrounded by family. "Jon
passes from Darkness to Light," a statement said.
A classically-trained pianist, Lord was influenced by blues and jazz but
approached his Hammond organ with a rock attitude and helped Deep Purple
become pioneers of progressive and heavy rock.
The band established their sound and success at the start of the 1970s
with albums including Deep Purple in Rock and Machine Head.
The group split up in 1976 but reformed in 1984 and the line-up has
undergone numerous changes over the years, with Lord a mainstay until he
left 2002.
In its classic years, the band also included guitarist Ritchie
Blackmore, singer Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover.
Born in Leicester on 9 June, 1941, Jon Lord began playing piano and
taking classical music lessons from an early age.
He received a scholarship to drama school in London at the age of 19,
during which time he began playing jazz and rhythm and blues in pub gigs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18864409
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Stronger than the wind
I am - I am
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ZeusJupiter
Jul 16, 2012, 2:54:55 PM7/16/12
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Jon Lord obituary
Organist who infused Deep Purple with classical influences, helping
make them one of the world's biggest rock bands
Monday 16 July 2012 13.47 EDT
Jon Lord's unique keyboard playing with Deep Purple was often copied
(click to enlarge). Photograph: Fin Costello/Redferns
'We're as valid as anything by Beethoven," declared Jon Lord of his
band, Deep Purple, in an interview with the New Musical Express in
1973. Lord, who has died aged 71 after suffering from pancreatic
cancer, was not merely adopting a rebellious stance. An accomplished
classical composer as well as rock musician, he believed with some
justification that his group's music was as profound in structure and
as significant in cultural impact as any work from the symphonic
canon. At the time, Deep Purple were among the world's biggest rock
bands, having built an enormous fanbase on the strength of their
classically influenced songs, which lent further weight to Lord's
statement.
Born in Leicester, Lord studied classical piano from the age of five.
In his teens, the then-new rock'n'roll and R&B movements made a deep
impression on him, in particular the music recorded by blues pianists
and organists such as Jimmy McGriff and Jerry Lee Lewis. The
contemporary combination of Hammond B3 and C3 organs with Leslie
speakers appealed to him, and this became an instrumental setup that
remained integral to Lord's signature keyboard style for the rest of
his career.
In 1959, he moved to London to pursue acting, which he studied at the
Central School of Speech and Drama. He played the piano and Hammond
organ in clubs to pay the bills, initially with a jazz band called the
Bill Ashton Combo and then with Red Bludd's Bluesicians, featuring the
vocalist Art Wood. While recording occasional sessions (he contributed
keyboards to the Kinks' 1964 hit You Really Got Me), Lord pursued pop
success in the Art Wood Combo, who later renamed themselves the
Artwoods and appeared on TV. I Take What I Want was the group's only
charting single.
Lord discovered his trademark sound when he formed Santa Barbara
Machine Head, which also featured Wood's brother and future Rolling
Stone, Ronnie Wood. The key to this group's success was its powerful,
organ- and guitar-driven formula, which pointed at the future musical
recipe of Deep Purple, and also the meeting of Lord and the bassist
Nick Simper. The duo were the backbone of Deep Purple, who formed when
the businessman and manager Tony Edwards invested in the new group and
auditioned the cream of London's young talent � the guitarist Ritchie
Blackmore, the singer Rod Evans and the drummer Ian Paice among them.
This quintet formed Purple's first lineup in 1968.
Deep Purple spent the following eight years on a path that took them
around the world on several occasions, playing the world's largest
stadiums and issuing a series of classic LPs � In Rock (1970),
Fireball (1971), Machine Head (1972) and Burn (1974) among them.
Personnel came and went, but Lord and Paice remained constant members
until the group's dissolution amid a haze of drug addiction and
exhaustion in 1976.
Of the great British rock bands of the 70s, only Led Zeppelin, Black
Sabbath and the Stones were able to operate on as grand a scale:
unlike any of those groups, Deep Purple took regular time out to
indulge in classical projects initiated and directed by Lord. The most
notable of these was the live Concerto for Group and Orchestra,
recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in 1969.
It was this equal passion for rock bombast and classical finesse that
made Lord such an unusual musician. During Deep Purple's glory days,
he often infused the songs with classical influences, as in the song
April from the group's eponymous album in 1969. His organ playing,
which often counterpointed Blackmore's virtuoso lead guitar, was
unique and often copied.
After the split, Lord formed a group with the rock singer Tony Ashton
and Deep Purple's ex-drummer Paice entitled Paice, Ashton & Lord. They
released one album, Malice in Wonderland, in 1977. He then joined
Whitesnake, the band formed by Deep Purple's last lead singer, David
Coverdale. This group, not to be confused with the 1980s reincarnation
that played stadium rock and met with huge success, was an earthy,
blues-rock band in which Lord's organ playing was an essential
element. His stint in Whitesnake ended when he rejoined a reformed
lineup of Deep Purple in 1984 alongside Blackmore, Paice, the singer
Ian Gillan and the bassist Roger Glover.
Many solo projects and collaborations came during and between Lord's
membership of these bands, including Before I Forget (1982), which
featured classical piano music; a commission to compose the soundtrack
of Central Television's 1984 series The Country Diary of an Edwardian
Lady; and guest spots on albums by rock luminaries such as Lord's
Oxfordshire neighbour George Harrison and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour.
Eight more years of recording and tours followed before Lord felt he
had had enough of life on the road. In a letter to his bandmates in
2002, he requested that Deep Purple take a year off. When this request
was declined, he amicably left the group. Solo projects followed,
including a collaboration in 2004 with sometime Abba singer Anni-Frid
Lyngstad, and the formation of a blues band, Hoochie Coochie Men,
three years later. In 2010, Lord was made an honorary fellow of
Stevenson College, Edinburgh, and the following year he was awarded an
honorary doctorate of music by the University of Leicester.
He is survived by his wife, Vicky, and their daughter, Amy; and a
daughter, Sara, by his first wife, Judith, from whom he was divorced.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jul/16/jon-lord?newsfeed=true
Organist who infused Deep Purple with classical influences, helping
make them one of the world's biggest rock bands
Monday 16 July 2012 13.47 EDT
Jon Lord's unique keyboard playing with Deep Purple was often copied
(click to enlarge). Photograph: Fin Costello/Redferns
'We're as valid as anything by Beethoven," declared Jon Lord of his
band, Deep Purple, in an interview with the New Musical Express in
1973. Lord, who has died aged 71 after suffering from pancreatic
cancer, was not merely adopting a rebellious stance. An accomplished
classical composer as well as rock musician, he believed with some
justification that his group's music was as profound in structure and
as significant in cultural impact as any work from the symphonic
canon. At the time, Deep Purple were among the world's biggest rock
bands, having built an enormous fanbase on the strength of their
classically influenced songs, which lent further weight to Lord's
statement.
Born in Leicester, Lord studied classical piano from the age of five.
In his teens, the then-new rock'n'roll and R&B movements made a deep
impression on him, in particular the music recorded by blues pianists
and organists such as Jimmy McGriff and Jerry Lee Lewis. The
contemporary combination of Hammond B3 and C3 organs with Leslie
speakers appealed to him, and this became an instrumental setup that
remained integral to Lord's signature keyboard style for the rest of
his career.
In 1959, he moved to London to pursue acting, which he studied at the
Central School of Speech and Drama. He played the piano and Hammond
organ in clubs to pay the bills, initially with a jazz band called the
Bill Ashton Combo and then with Red Bludd's Bluesicians, featuring the
vocalist Art Wood. While recording occasional sessions (he contributed
keyboards to the Kinks' 1964 hit You Really Got Me), Lord pursued pop
success in the Art Wood Combo, who later renamed themselves the
Artwoods and appeared on TV. I Take What I Want was the group's only
charting single.
Lord discovered his trademark sound when he formed Santa Barbara
Machine Head, which also featured Wood's brother and future Rolling
Stone, Ronnie Wood. The key to this group's success was its powerful,
organ- and guitar-driven formula, which pointed at the future musical
recipe of Deep Purple, and also the meeting of Lord and the bassist
Nick Simper. The duo were the backbone of Deep Purple, who formed when
the businessman and manager Tony Edwards invested in the new group and
auditioned the cream of London's young talent � the guitarist Ritchie
Blackmore, the singer Rod Evans and the drummer Ian Paice among them.
This quintet formed Purple's first lineup in 1968.
Deep Purple spent the following eight years on a path that took them
around the world on several occasions, playing the world's largest
stadiums and issuing a series of classic LPs � In Rock (1970),
Fireball (1971), Machine Head (1972) and Burn (1974) among them.
Personnel came and went, but Lord and Paice remained constant members
until the group's dissolution amid a haze of drug addiction and
exhaustion in 1976.
Of the great British rock bands of the 70s, only Led Zeppelin, Black
Sabbath and the Stones were able to operate on as grand a scale:
unlike any of those groups, Deep Purple took regular time out to
indulge in classical projects initiated and directed by Lord. The most
notable of these was the live Concerto for Group and Orchestra,
recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in 1969.
It was this equal passion for rock bombast and classical finesse that
made Lord such an unusual musician. During Deep Purple's glory days,
he often infused the songs with classical influences, as in the song
April from the group's eponymous album in 1969. His organ playing,
which often counterpointed Blackmore's virtuoso lead guitar, was
unique and often copied.
After the split, Lord formed a group with the rock singer Tony Ashton
and Deep Purple's ex-drummer Paice entitled Paice, Ashton & Lord. They
released one album, Malice in Wonderland, in 1977. He then joined
Whitesnake, the band formed by Deep Purple's last lead singer, David
Coverdale. This group, not to be confused with the 1980s reincarnation
that played stadium rock and met with huge success, was an earthy,
blues-rock band in which Lord's organ playing was an essential
element. His stint in Whitesnake ended when he rejoined a reformed
lineup of Deep Purple in 1984 alongside Blackmore, Paice, the singer
Ian Gillan and the bassist Roger Glover.
Many solo projects and collaborations came during and between Lord's
membership of these bands, including Before I Forget (1982), which
featured classical piano music; a commission to compose the soundtrack
of Central Television's 1984 series The Country Diary of an Edwardian
Lady; and guest spots on albums by rock luminaries such as Lord's
Oxfordshire neighbour George Harrison and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour.
Eight more years of recording and tours followed before Lord felt he
had had enough of life on the road. In a letter to his bandmates in
2002, he requested that Deep Purple take a year off. When this request
was declined, he amicably left the group. Solo projects followed,
including a collaboration in 2004 with sometime Abba singer Anni-Frid
Lyngstad, and the formation of a blues band, Hoochie Coochie Men,
three years later. In 2010, Lord was made an honorary fellow of
Stevenson College, Edinburgh, and the following year he was awarded an
honorary doctorate of music by the University of Leicester.
He is survived by his wife, Vicky, and their daughter, Amy; and a
daughter, Sara, by his first wife, Judith, from whom he was divorced.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jul/16/jon-lord?newsfeed=true
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