RITCHIE BLACKMORE Considered Possible Collaboration With ABBA Singer
June 10, 2011, 13 years ago
According to the official RAINBOW Facebook page, DEEP PURPLE/Rainbow guitar legend Ritchie Blackmore is a huge fan of ABBA, and on June 4th, 1980, Abba vocalist Agnetha Fältskog went to the soundcheck at Rainbow’s gig at the Isstadion, in Stockholm, Sweden, to discuss a possible collaboration with Blackmore.
The project clearly failed to come to fruition.
Agnetha Fältskog achieved success in Sweden after the release of her début album, Agnetha Fältskog, in 1968, and reached international stardom as a member of the pop group ABBA, which to date has sold over 375 million records worldwide, making it the fourth best–selling music artist in history and the second best–selling band in history, according to Wikipedia.
According to Thisisgloucestershire.co.uk, medieval festival fans in Tewkesbury are getting ready to rock after Ritchie Blackmore agreed to be their music patron.
The man who came up with one of the most famous guitar riffs of all time, for Deep Purple's 'Smoke On The Water', is backing the annual re-enactment of the 1471 Battle Of Tewkesbury.
And not only has he agreed to be the festival's first music patron, but he wants to play at the event in the future.
Blackmore lives in America and agreed to be patron through his wife's mother, Carole Stevens. She manages the star's current band, BLACKMORE'S NIGHT, in which he plays alongside his wife, Candice Night.
The Tewkesbury Medieval Festival will take place off Gloucester Road on July 9th and 10th.
