Original WHITESNAKE Guitarist Pays Tribute To JON LORD – July 20, 2012
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Deep Purple's Jon Lord and Australian band George rehearse at the Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Symphonic Orchestra in 2003. They performed for the Sydney Festival "Concerto for Group and Orchestra," an original composition by Lord. (Patrick "June and July have been very busy, but all has been brought back to base with the [...]
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The rock world has been paying tribute to Jon Lord, the organist and pianist best known for playing with Deep Purple and Whitesnake, who died yesterday. He'd been fighting off pancreatic cancer. Born in Leicester, Jon learned classical piano at an It is with deep sadness we announce the passing of Jon Lord, who suffered [...]
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Richard B. Scudder Co-founder of MediaNews Group Richard B. Scudder, 99, co-founder and former chairman of MediaNews Group Inc., the nation's second-largest newspaper company, who also helped invent a process allowing newsprint to be recycled, Jon Lord, keyboardist with legendary British rock band Deep Purple and co-author of their most famous hit "Smoke On The [...]
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Country queen Kitty Wells, 92, and Deep Purple's organist/keyboardist Jon Lord, 71, often played London. I interviewed Kitty Wells, too. The third of Monday's losses was someone I should have known . . . now I better track down Standing in the Shadows Jon Lord, 71, a British keyboardist for Deep Purple and Whitesnake, died [...]
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Michael Anthony, Chickenfoot, Van Halen: “Growing up listening to music, Jon Lord and Deep Purple had one of the biggest influences on me both vocally and musically. The first Deep Purple album I listened to was In Rock. The keyboards totally blew me Deep Purple rocker Jon Lord died of a pulmonary embolism on Monday [...]
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Blabbermouth.net is the CNN of heavy metal and hard rock news, reviews and music featuring the latest news, reviews, tour dates, release dates and rss heavy metal and hard rock feeds. Keyboardist Jon Lord, 71, had been suffering from pancreatic cancer Read more by CBSNews.com staff on CBS News' Celebrity Circuit. Jon Lord, keyboardist and [...]
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Jon Lord, who has died aged 71, gave hard rock one of its defining sounds. Here he is at his best. Jon Lord, the keyboardist and co-founder of Deep Purple, has died. He was 71 years old, and according to reports had been receiving treatment for pancreatic cancer since last year. The Hammond organ specialist [...]
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Former Deep Purple keyboardist, Jon Lord, who was with the band from 1968 until 2002, has passed away at the age of 71, after succumbing to pancreatic cancer. A message from his official website reads as follows: "It is with deep sadness we announce Deep Purple rocker Jon Lord has lost his battle with cancer [...]
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