BraveWords' MARTIN POPOFF Talks RITCHIE BLACKMORE - "He Was There At The Beginning Inventing Heavy Metal"
April 21, 2014, 10 years ago
Metal Shock Finland's editor-in-chief, Mohsen Fayyazi, recently conducted an interview with rock and metal writer Martin Popoff as part of their Tribute To RITCHIE BLACKMORE week. An excerpt from the interview is available below:
Popoff: "I think one of the big things Ritchie contributed to us, he essentially is in there at the very beginning, inventing heavy metal. People often talk about the first BLACK SABBATH album in February 1970, the second Black Sabbath later in 1970, but I think if Black Sabbath wasn’t there earlier by a few months, I would say that DEEP PURPLE In Rock is the most pronounced, most modern, most revolutionary of those three records in 1970. Ritchie Blackmore was there inventing heavy metal."
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