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2 unusual facts about Blackmore


Blackmore's Night

During the reformed Rainbow's recording of the album Stranger in Us All in 1995, on which Night contributed some of the lyrics and backing harmony vocals, the duo were already gearing up their debut album.

Malcolm Dick

His drumming credits include work with Ever Ready Brass Band (now Reg Vardy Band), Toy Dolls, Martin Stephenson and the Daintees and Blackmore's Night.


Bradley A. Smith

Bradley A. Smith (born 1958) is an American jurist and legal scholar, currently the Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Professor of Law at Capital University Law School, who was Commissioner, Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) between 2000 and 2005 and is best known for his writing and activities opposing campaign finance regulation.

Castles and Dreams

"Castles and Dreams" is a song by Blackmore’s Night from their 1999 album Under a Violet Moon.

Clayton Blackmore

1988–89 saw Blackmore enjoy even more first team opportunities as he played 28 times in the league.

Cradock Nowell

It was Blackmore's second novel, and the novel he wrote prior to his most famous work Lorna Doone.

John Weston Thomas

John Weston Thomas had three students, these were Alun Thomas (his son), Bryan Blackmore (in Pembrokeshire) and Allan Shiers (in Llandysul) all three are still working as harp makers.

Live in California 74

Blackmore felt this would dull the effect of the band's light show.

Live in Munich

Live in Munich 1977, a live album and DVD released by Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow in 2006

Michael Bormann

Through the years, Bormann has worked with noted musicians such as J.R. Blackmore (son of Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple and Rainbow), Jochen 'Zeno' Roth (brother of Uli John Roth of Scorpions fame), Jos Zoomer (from Vandenberg) and Anette Blyckert of Alyson Avenue and Nightwish.

Mk III: The Final Concerts

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  • "Space Truckin'" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 19:54

    During the intro jam for "You Fool No One" Blackmore played riffs from the songs "Still I'm Sad" and "Man On The Silver Mountain" from Rainbow's first LP Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, which had already been recorded only weeks before these shows.

    Mount Blackmore

    Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden's survey expedition of the Yellowstone area named the peak for Mary Blackmore, wife of William Blackmore, an English land speculator and philanthropist who accompanied the Hayden Survey.

    Naomi James

    In 1988, Kay Cottee of Australia became the first woman to complete a non-stop single-handed circumnavigation, on Blackmore's First Lady.

    Olve Eikemo

    Abbath uses an ENGL Ritchie Blackmore Signature E650 amp through either direct line in or a Marshall cabinet.

    Past Times with Good Company

    Past Times with Good Company is a double live album by the band Blackmore's Night, recorded in May 2002 in Groningen, the Netherlands.

    Prince Arthur

    King Arthur also features as "Prince Arthur" in some works, as in Richard Blackmore's epic Prince Arthur, an Heroick Poem in X Books and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen

    Shadow of the Moon

    #"Writing on the Wall" (Blackmore/Night/traditional by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) – 4:35

    Springhaven

    Blackmore himself thought that Springhaven was a better work than Lorna Doone, and he placed Springhaven second only to The Maid of Sker as his best novel.

    Stephen Blackmore

    Stephen Blackmore CBE FRSE FIBiol FLS (born 30 July 1952) is a British botanist, Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh from 1999 until 30 December 2013; previous to this he was Keeper of Botany at the Natural History Museum in London 1990-1999.

    Susan Blackmore

    On 15 September 2010, Blackmore, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in The Guardian, stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK.

    The Maid of Sker

    It was Blackmore's next novel published after Lorna Doone although he had begun writing it 25 years earlier.

    The Very Best of Rainbow

    #"Stone Cold" (Blackmore, Glover, Turner) - 5:17 (from Straight Between the Eyes, 1982)

    Tina Chancey

    Chancey has been a member of the Renaissance-Rock group Blackmore's Night (featuring Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple and Rainbow with his partner, Candice Night).

    Veropedia

    Tim Blackmore, an associate professor at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies of the University of Western Ontario, expressed scepticism toward the project, since there are already encyclopedias in existence where "content is checked and articles are reviewed".


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