NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) Jon Lord, founding keyboardist for the legendary band Deep Purple, died Monday (July 16) in London.
According to his official website, the British rocker suffered a pulmonary embolism after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 71 years old.
The message on his official website following:
"It is with deep sadness we announce the passing of Jon Lord, who suffered a fatal pulmonary embolism today, Monday 16th July at the London Clinic, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Jon was surrounded by his loving family.
Jon Lord, the legendary keyboard player with Deep Purple co-wrote many of the bands legendary songs including Smoke On The Water and played with many bands and musicians throughout his career.
Best known for his Orchestral work Concerto for Group & Orchestra first performed at Royal Albert Hall with Deep Purple and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1969 and conducted by the renowned Malcolm Arnold, a feat repeated in 1999 when it was again performed at the Royal Albert Hall by the London Symphony Orchestra and Deep Purple.
Jon's solo work was universally acclaimed when he eventually retired from Deep Purple in 2002.
Jon passes from Darkness to Light.
Jon Lord 9 June 1941 - 16 July 2012."
Biography:
Jonathan
Douglas "Jon" Lord D.M. (9 June 1941 - 16 July 2012) was an English composer, pianist and Hammond organ player known for his pioneering work in fusing rock and classical or baroque forms, especially with Deep Purple, besides Whitesnake, Paice, Ashton & Lord, The Artwoods and Flower Pot Men.
In 1968, Lord founded Deep Purple, where he was virtually the leader of the band until 1970. In addition, Lord wrote the organ riff on "Child in Time". He and drummer Ian Paice were the only constant band members during the band's existence from 1968 to 1976 and from when they reformed in 1984 until Lord's retirement from
Deep Purple in 2002. On 11 November 2010, Lord was made an Honorary Fellow of Stevenson College, Edinburgh. On 15 July 2011, he was granted an honorary Doctor of
Music degree by his home town's University of Leicester. Lord died on 16 July 2012 after suffering a pulmonary embolism. He had been suffering from pancreatic cancer and was surrounded by his family at the London Clinic.
Early life
Jon Lord was born in Leicester on 9 June 1941 to his parents Miriam (1912-1995, née Hudson) and Reg. He studied classical piano from the age of five, and those influences are a recurring trademark in his work. His influences range from Bach (a constant connection in his music and his keyboard improvisation) to Medieval popular music and the English tradition of Edward Elgar. He attended Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys where he gained an A-level in music and then worked as a clerk in a solicitor's office for two years.
Simultaneously, Lord absorbed the blues sounds that played a key part in his rock career, principally the raw sounds of the great American blues organists Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff and "
Brother" Jack McDuff ("Rock Candy"), as well as the stage showmanship of Jerry Lee Lewis. The jazz-blues organ sounds coming from those musicians in the 1950s and 1960s, using the trademark blues-organ sound of the Hammond organ (B3 and C3 models) and combining it with the
Leslie speaker system (the well-known Hammond-Leslie speaker combo), were seminal influences. Lord has also stated that he was heavily influenced by the organ-based progressive rock played by Vanilla Fudge after seeing that band perform in the UK in 1967. Keyboard contemporaries in the 1970s Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman generally steered away from the blues or only showcased it as a novelty, but Lord embraced it fully into his style.
Lord moved to London in 1959/60, intent on an acting career and enrolling at the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London's
Swiss Cottage. Small parts followed and Lord continued playing piano and organ in clubs and as a session musician to make ends meet.
He started his London band career in 1960 with jazz ensemble the Bill Ashton Combo. Ashton, now an MBE, became a key figure in jazz education in the UK, creating what later became the
National Youth Jazz Orchestra. Between 1960 and 1963, Lord (along with Ashton) moved onto Red Bludd's Bluesicians (also known as The Don Wilson's Quartet), the latter of which featured singer Arthur "Art" Wood. Wood had previously sung with Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated and was a junior figure in the British blues movement. In this period, Lord's session credits included playing keyboards on You Really Got Me (The Kinks 1964 classic).
Following the break-up of Redd Bludd's Bluesicians in late 1963, Wood, Lord and drummer Red Dunnage put together a new band. The Art Wood Combo also included Derek Griffiths (guitar) and Malcolm Pool (bass). Dunnage left in December 1964 to be replaced by Keef Hartley, who had previously replaced Ringo Starr in Rory
Storm and the Hurricanes.
The Artwoods, as the band came to be known, focused on the organ as the bluesy, rhythmic core of their sound, in common with contemporaries the Spencer Davis Group (Steve Winwood on organ) and the Animals (with Alan Price). They made appearances on TV shows such as Ready Steady Go!, performed abroad and appeared on the first Ready Steady Goes Live, promoting their first single "Sweet Mary", but significant commercial success eluded them. Their only chart single was "I Take What I Want", which reached #28 on 8 May 1966.
The band regrouped in 1967 as St Valentine's Day Massacre, in an attempt to cash in on the 1930s gangster craze triggered by the film Bonnie and Clyde. Hartley left in 1967 to join John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.
Lord then created
Santa Barbara Machine Head (featuring Art's brother, the young Ronnie Wood), writing and recording three powerful keyboard-driven instrumental tracks, giving a preview of the seminal
Deep Purple style to come in the future. Soon after, he went on to cover for keyboard player Billy Day in The Flower Pot Men, where he met bassist Nick Simper. Lord and Simper toured with the band in 1967 to support their "Let's Go To San Francisco" hit single, but they never recorded with them.
In early 1967, through his roommate Chris Curtis of The Searchers, Lord met businessman Tony Edwards who was looking to invest in the music business.
Ritchie Blackmore was called in and met Lord for the first time. But Chris Curtis' erratic behavior led the trio nowhere. Edwards was impressed enough by Jon Lord to ask him to form a band after Curtis faded out. Simper was contacted, and Blackmore recalled from Hamburg. Top English drummer
Bobby Woodman was the initial choice for the drums, but during the auditions for a singer, Rod Evans of the Maze came in with his drummer, Ian Paice. Blackmore, who had been impressed by Paice's drumming when he'd met him in 1967, quickly ensured an audition for Paice as well. The band was initially called Roundabout, which by March 1968 had morphed into the "Mark 1" lineup of Deep Purple: Lord, Simper, Blackmore, Paice and Evans.
Lord also helped form Boz, which did some recordings produced by Derek Lawrence, featuring Boz Burrell (later of Bad Company), session guitarist
Ritchie Blackmore, drummer Ian Paice, and bassist Chas Hodges (later of 'Cockney' pop group Chas & Dave).
Deep Purple, 1968-1976
It is in this period that Lord's trademark keyboard sound emerged. Ignoring the emergence of the Moog synthesizer as pioneered in rock by players like Keith Emerson, he began experimenting with a keyboard sound centred on the Hammond organ but heavier than a blues sound and often featuring distortion. This delivered a rhythmic foundation to complement Blackmore's speed and virtuosity on lead guitar. Lord also loved the sound of an RMI 368 Electra-Piano and Harpsichord, which he used on songs like "Demon's Eye", and "Space Truckin'". In 1973, Lord's original Hammond C3 gave out, and he purchased another from Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac. Around this same time, Lord and his keyboard technician, Mike Phillips, combined his Hammond C3 Organ with the RMI. (Lord kept this particular Hammond C3 until his retirement from the band in 2002.)
Lord pushed the Hammond-Leslie sound through Marshall amplification, creating a growling, heavy, mechanical sound that gave a rhythmic counterpoint to Blackmore's lead playing. It also allowed Lord to compete with Blackmore as a soloist, with an organ that sounded as heavy as a lead guitar. Said one reviewer, "many have tried to imitate [Lord's] style, and all failed." Said Lord himself, "There's a way of playing a Hammond [that's] different. A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that you can play a Hammond with a piano technique. Well, you can, but it sounds like you are playing a Hammond with a piano technique. Really, you have to learn how to play an organ. It's a legato technique; it's a technique to achieve legato on a non-legato instrument."
In early
Deep Purple recordings, Lord had appeared to be the leader of the band, though it never made chart success in the UK until the Concerto for Group and Orchestra album (1970). For example, the band's first hit song, a cover of Joe South's "Hush", features an extended organ solo and no guitar solo. Later, Lord's willingness to play many of the key rhythm parts gave the guitarist the freedom to let loose both live and on record.
On Deep Purple's second and third albums, Lord began indulging his ambition to fuse rock with classical music. An early example of this is the song "
Anthem" from the album The Book of Taliesyn (1968), but a more prominent example is the song "April" from the band's self-titled third album (1969). The song is recorded in three parts: (1) Lord and Blackmore only, on keyboards and acoustic guitar, respectively; (2) an orchestral arrangement complete with strings; and (3) the full rock band with vocals. This enhanced Lord's reputation among fellow musicians, but caused tension within the group.
Blackmore agreed to go along with Lord's experimentation, provided he was given his head on the next band album. The resulting Concerto For Group and Orchestra (in 1969) was one of rock's earliest attempts to fuse two distinct musical idioms. Performed live at the Royal Albert Hall on 24
September 1969 (with new band members Ian Gillan and
Roger Glover, Evans and Simper having been fired), recorded by the BBC and later released as an album, the Concerto gave
Deep Purple their first highly-publicised taste of mainstream fame and gave Lord the confidence to believe that his experiment and his compositional skill had a future. The Concerto also gave Lord the chance to work with established classical figures, like conductor Malcolm Arnold (knighted in 1993), who brought his technical skills to bear by helping Lord score the work and to protect him from the inevitable disdain of the older members of the orchestra.
Classical dalliance over, Purple began work on In Rock, released by their new label EMI in 1970 and now recognised as one of hard rock's key early works. Lord and Blackmore competed to out-dazzle each other, often in classical-style, midsection 'call and answer' improvisation (on tracks like "
Speed King"), something they employed to great effect live. Similarly, "Child in Time" features Lord's playing to maximum tonal effect. The organ riff on "Child in Time" was written by Lord, although it is similar to It's a Beautiful Day's 1969 psychedelic hit song "Bombay Calling". Lord's experimental solo on "Hard Lovin' Man" (complete with police-siren interpolation) on the album is his personal favourite among his
Deep Purple studio performances.
Deep Purple released a sequence of albums between 1971's
Fireball and 1975's Come Taste the Band. Gillan and Glover left in 1973 and Blackmore in 1975, and the band disintegrated in 1976. The highlights of Lord's Purple work in the period include the 1972 album
Machine Head (featuring his rhythmic underpinnings on "Smoke on the Water" and "Space Truckin'", plus the organ solos on "
Highway Star" and "Lazy"), the sonic bombast of the Made in Japan live album (1972), an extended, effect-laden solo on "Rat Bat Blue" from the Who Do We Think We Are album (1973), and his overall playing on the Burn album from 1974.
Roger Glover later described Lord as a true "Zen-archer soloist", someone whose best keyboard improvisation often came at the first attempt. Lord's strict reliance on the Hammond C3 organ sound, as opposed to the synthesizer experimentation of his contemporaries, places him firmly in the jazz-blues category as a band musician and far from the progressive-rock sound of Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman. Lord himself would rarely venture into the synthesizer territory on Purple albums, often limiting his experimentation to the use of the ring modulator with the Hammond, to give live performances on tracks like Space Truckin' a distinctive 'spacey' sound. Rare instances of his
Deep Purple synthesizer use (later including the MiniMoog and other Moog synthesizers) include "'A' 200", the final track from Burn, and "Love Child" on the Come Taste the Band album.
In early 1973 Lord stated: "We're as valid as anything by Beethoven." - (NME, March 1973)
Composing career
Lord continued to focus on his classical aspirations alongside his
Deep Purple career. The BBC, buoyed by the success of the Concerto, commissioned him to do another work and the resulting Gemini Suite was performed by
Deep Purple and the Light
Music Society under Malcolm Arnold at the Royal Festival Hall in
September 1970 and then in Munich with the Kammerorchester conducted by Eberhard Schoener in January 1972. It then became the basis for Lord's first solo album, Gemini Suite, released in November 1972, with vocals by Yvonne Elliman and Tony Ashton and with the London Symphony Orchestra backing a band that included Albert Lee on guitar.
Lord's collaboration with the highly experimental and supportive Schoener resulted in a second live performance of the Suite in late 1973 and a new Lord album with Eberhard Schoener, entitled Windows, in 1974. It proved to be Lord's most experimental work and was released to mixed reactions. However, the dalliances with Bach on Windows and the pleasure of collaborating with Schoener resulted in perhaps Lord's most confident solo work and perhaps his strongest orchestral album, Sarabande, recorded in Germany in
September 1975 with the Philharmonia Hungarica conducted by Schoener.
Composed of eight pieces (from the opening sweep of
Fantasia to the Finale), at least five pieces form the typical construction of a baroque dance suite. The key pieces (Sarabande, Gigue, Bouree, Pavane and Caprice) feature rich orchestration complemented sometimes by the interpolation of rock themes, played by a session band comprising Pete York, Mark Nauseef and Andy Summers, with organ and synthesizers played by Lord.
In March 1974, Lord and Paice had collaborated with friend Tony Ashton on First of the Big Bands, credited to 'Ashton & Lord' and featuring a rich array of session talent, including Carmine Appice, Ian Paice,
Peter Frampton and
Pink Floyd saxophonist/sessioner, Dick Parry. They performed much of the set live at the London Palladium in
September 1974.
This formed the basis of Lord's first post-Deep Purple project Paice, Ashton & Lord, which lasted only a year and spawned a single album, Malice in
Wonderland in 1977. He created an informal group of friends and collaborators including Ashton, Paice, Bernie Marsden, Boz Burrell and later, Bad Company's Mick Ralphs,
Simon Kirke and others. Over the same period, Lord guested on albums by Maggie Bell, Nazareth and even Richard Digance. Eager to pay off a huge tax bill upon his return the UK in the late-1970s (Purple's excesses included their own tour jet and a home Lord rented in Hollywood from actress Ann-Margret), Lord joined former
Deep Purple band member
David Coverdale's new band,
Whitesnake in August 1978 (Paice joined them in 1980 and stayed till 1982).
Whitesnake was a continuation of the musical style introduced in Paice, Ashton & Lord and was inspired in name and cover art from Lord's 1975 album Sarabande.
Whitesnake, 1978-1984
Lord's job in
Whitesnake was largely limited to adding colour (or, in his own words, a 'halo') to round out a blues-rock sound that already accommodated two lead guitarists, Bernie Marsden and Micky Moody. He added a Yamaha Electric Grand piano to his set-up and finally a huge bank of synthesizers onstage courtesy of Moog (MiniMoog, Opus, PolyMoog) so he could play the 12-bar blues the band often required and recreate string section and other effects. Such varied work is evident on tracks like "
Here I Go Again", "Wine, Women and Song", "She's a Woman" and "Till the Day I Die". A number of singles entered the UK charts, taking the now 40-something Lord onto Top of the Pops with regularity between 1980 and 1983. He later expressed frustration that he was a poorly-paid hired-hand. His dissatisfaction (and Coverdale's eagerness to revamp the band's line-up and lower the average age to help crack the US market) smoothed the way for the reformation of
Deep Purple Mk II in 1984.
Jon Lord's last
Whitesnake concert took place in the Swedish TV programme Mandagsborsen in 16 April 1984.
During his tenure in Whitesnake, Lord did have a chance to do two distinctly different solo albums. 1982s Before I Forget featured a largely conventional eight-song line-up, no orchestra and with the bulk of the songs being either mainstream rock tracks ("Hollywood Rock And Roll", "Chance on a Feeling"), or — specifically on Side Two — a series of very English classical piano ballads sung by mother and daughter duo, Vicki Brown and Sam Brown (wife and daughter of entertainer Joe Brown) and vocalist Elmer Gantry. The album also boasted the cream of British rock talent, including prolific session drummer (and
National Youth Jazz Orchestra alumnus)
Simon Phillips, Cozy Powell, Neil Murray,
Simon Kirke, Boz Burrell and Mick Ralphs. Lord used synthesizers more than ever before, principally to retain an intimacy with the material and to create a jam atmosphere with old friends like Tony Ashton.
Additionally, Lord was commissioned by producer Patrick Gamble for Central Television to write the soundtrack for their 1984 TV series, Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, based on the book by Edith Holden, with an orchestra conducted by Alfred Ralston and with a distinctly gentle, pastoral series of themes composed by Lord. Lord, now firmly established as a member of UK rock/Oxfordshire mansion aristocracy (in Lord's case, a home called Burntwood, complete with hand-painted Challen baby grand piano, previous owner, Shirley Bassey), was asked to guest on albums by friends
George Harrison (Gone Troppo from 1982) and Pink Floyd's
David Gilmour (1983's About Face), Cozy Powell (Octopus in 1983) and to play on an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic, Wind in the Willows. He composed and produced the score for White Fire (1984), which consisted largely of two songs performed by Limelight.
In the 1980s he was also a member of an all-star band called Olympic Rock & Blues Circus fronted by Pete York and featuring a rotating line-up of the likes of Miller Anderson, Tony Ashton, Brian Auger, Zoot Money, Colin Hodgkinson, Chris Farlowe and many others. Olympic Rock & Blues Circus toured primarily in Germany between 1981 and 1989. Some musicians, including Lord, took part in York's TV musical extravaganza Superdrumming between 1987 and 1989.
1984-2012
Lord's re-emergence with
Deep Purple in 1984 resulted in huge audiences for the reformed Mk II line-up, including 1985s second largest grossing tour in the US and an appearance in front of 70,000 rain-soaked fans headlining Knebworth on 22 June 1985, all to support the Perfect Strangers album. Playing with a rejuvenated Mk. II Purple line-up (including spells at a health farm to get the band including Lord into shape) and being onstage and in the studio with Blackmore, gave Lord the chance to push himself once again. His 'rubato' classical opening sequence to the album's opener, "Knocking at Your Back Door" (complete with F-Minor to G polychordal harmony sequence), gave Lord the chance to do his most powerful work for years, including the song "
Perfect Strangers". Further
Deep Purple albums followed, often of varying quality, and by the late-1990s, Lord was clearly keen to explore where to take his career next.
In 1997, he created perhaps his most personal work to date, Pictured Within, released in 1998 with a European tour to support it. Lord's mother Miriam had died in August 1995 and the album is a deeply affecting piece, inflected at all stages by Lord's sense of grief. Recorded largely in Lord's home away from home, the city of Cologne, the album's themes are Elgarian and alpine in equal measure. Lord signed to Virgin Classics to release it, and perhaps saw it as the first stage in his eventual departure from Purple to embark on a low-key and altogether more gentle solo career. One song from Pictured Within, entitled "Wait A While" was later covered by Norwegian singer
Sissel Kyrkjebø on her 2003/2004 album My Heart. Lord finally retired from
Deep Purple amicably in 2002, preceded by a knee injury that eventually resolved itself without surgery. He said subsequently, "Leaving
Deep Purple was just as traumatic as I had always suspected it would be and more so -- if you see what I mean". He even dedicated a song to it on 2004's solo effort, Beyond the Notes, called "De Profundis". The album was recorded in Bonn with producer,
Mario Argandoña between June and July 2004.
Pictured Within and Beyond the Notes provide the most personal work by Lord, and together, have what his earlier solo work perhaps lacks, a very clear musical voice that is quintessentially his. Together, both albums are uniquely crafted, mature pieces from a man in touch with himself and his spirituality. Lord slowly built a small, but distinct position and fan base for himself in Europe, collaborating with former ABBA superstar and family friend,
Frida (Anni-Frid Lyngstad), on the 2004 track, "The Sun Will
Shine Again" (with lyrics by Sam Brown) and performing with her across
Europe and subsequently, doing concerts also to première the 2007-scheduled Boom of the Tingling
Strings orchestral piece.
In 2003, he also returned to his beloved R-n-B/blues heritage to record an album of standards in Sydney, with Australia's Jimmy Barnes, entitled Live in the Basement, by Jon Lord and the Hoochie Coochie Men. He remains one of British rock music's most eclectic and talented instrumentalists. Lord is also happy to support the Sam Buxton Sunflower Jam Healing
Trust and in
September 2006, performed at a star-studded event to support the charity led by Ian Paice's wife, Jacky (twin sister of Lord's wife Vicky). Featured artists on stage with Lord included Paul Weller, Robert Plant, Phil Manzanera, Ian Paice and Bernie Marsden.
Two Lord compositions, "Boom of the Tingling Strings" and "Disguises (Suite for String Orchestra)", were recorded in Denmark in 2006 and released in April 2008 on EMI Classics. Both featured the Odense Symfoniorkester, conducted by Paul Mann. Additionally, a second Hoochie Coochie Men album was recorded in July 2006 in London. This album, Danger - White Men Dancing, was released in October 2007.
His Durham Concerto, commissioned by Durham University for its 175th anniversary celebrations, received its world premiere on 20 October 2007 in Durham Cathedral by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and featured soloists Lord on Hammond Organ, Kathryn Tickell on Northumbrian pipes, Matthew Barley on cello and Ruth Palmer on violin.
Lord was (almost) next-door neighbour to former Beatle,
George Harrison, and played piano on Harrison's posthumously released Brainwashed album (2002). He was also a close friend of John Mortimer, whom he had accompanied on many occasions during Mortimer's performances of "Mortimer Miscellany".
Lord released his solo album To Notice Such Things on 29 March 2010. Titled after the main work — a six movement suite for solo flute, piano and string orchestra — the album was inspired by, and is dedicated to the memory of Jon's dear friend Sir John Mortimer, the English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, author and creator of British television series "Rumpole of The Bailey", who died in January 2009. On its first day of release, the album entered Amazon's Movers And Shakers index, nestling at no. 12 at the end of the day. Six days later it entered the UK's official classical chart at no. 4.
Among his many upcoming projects, Jon Lord has been commissioned to compose a concerto for Hammond organ and orchestra and with special parts for tympani. The piece will be premiered with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra with Tom Vissgren on tympani in Oslo, Norway in the
Spring of 2012. With Vladimir Ashkenazy and
Josef Suk, Lord was one of three artistic sponsors of Toccata Classics.
Up until July 2012, Lord had been working on material with recently formed rock supergroup WhoCares, also featuring singer Ian Gillan from Deep Purple, guitarist Tony Iommi from
Black Sabbath, second guitarist Mikko Lindström from HIM, bassist Jason Newsted formerly from
Metallica and drummer
Nicko McBrain from Iron Maiden.
Personal life
Jon Lord was married to Vickie Lord, the twin sister of Ian Paice's wife, Jackie. The twin girls were the daughters of Frank Gibbs, owner of the Oakley House Country Club, Brewood, Staffs. They both live in the United Kingdom. He had two daughters, Amy, with Vickie, and Sara, with his first wife
Judith Feldman, to whom he was married from 1969 to 1981.
Death
In 2011, Lord was diagnosed as suffering from pancreatic cancer, a normally swiftly developing and deadly form of cancer. Lord died on 16 July 2012, surrounded by his family at the London Clinic after suffering a pulmonary embolism.
Discography
Santa Barbara Machine Head
1968 Blues Anytime Vol. 3 ("Porcupine Juice", "Albert", "Rubber Monkey")
1969 An Anthology of British Blues Vol. 2
2002 Pre-Purple People ("Porcupine Juice", "Albert", "Rubber Monkey")
Solo and orchestral works with Deep Purple
1969 Concerto for Group and Orchestra (with Deep Purple)
1971 The Last
Rebel (with Ashton, Gardner & Dyke) - motion picture soundtrack
1972 Gemini Suite
1974 First of the Big Bands (with Tony Ashton)
1974 Windows (with Eberhard Schoener)
1976 Sarabande
1982 Before I Forget
1984 Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady (with Alfred Ralston) - television series soundtrack
1993 Gemini Suite Live (with Deep Purple)
1993 First of the Big Bands - BBC Live in Concert 1974 (with Tony Ashton)
1996 The Best (compilation)
1998 Pictured Within
2000 In Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra (with Deep Purple)
2003 Jon Lord With
Pictures (DVD documentary)
2004 Beyond The Notes
2004 Beyond The Notes Live (DVD)
2008 Boom of the Tingling Strings
2008 Durham Concerto
2010 To Notice Such Things [10]
2011 Jon Lord Blues Project Live
2011 Jon Lord Live (Bucharest 2009)
With The Hoochie Coochie Men
2003 Live at the Basement
2007 Danger. White Men Dancing
Other credits
1964 Kinks (The Kinks, "
You Really Got Me")
1967 Sound & Movement (The Leading Figures)
1968 I Shall Be Released/Down in the Flood (Boz Burrell, SP)
1968 Sundragon (Sundragon)
1968 Madena/Standing Still (Anan, SP)
1972 What a Bloody Long Day It's Been (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke, "The Falling Song" - strings arr.)
1974 Rampant (Nazareth, "Glad When You're Gone", "Shanghai'd in Shanghai")
1976 Wizard's Convention (Eddie Hardin)
1978 More Than Meets the Eye (Joe Breen)
1979 Commercial Road (Richard Digance)
1979 And About Time Too (Bernie Marsden])
1980 Look at Me Now (Bernie Marsden)
1981 Line-Up (Graham Bonnett)
1982 Gone Troppo (George Harrison, "
Circles")
1983 Octopuss (Cozy Powell)
1984 About Face (David Gilmour)
1985 Wind in the Willows (Eddie Hardin)
1986
Detroit Diesel (Alvin Lee, "
Ordinary Man", "
Let's Go")
1989 Super Drumming Folge 1 & 2 (Pete York)
1990 Rock Aid Armenia - The Earthquake Album ("Smoke on the Water '90")
1990 About Love and Life (Vicki Brown, "
We Are One")
1990 April Moon (Sam Brown, "Contradictions")
1990 Pete York Presents Super Drumming Volume 3 ("I Got Rhythm", "Heavy Ravel", "Gemini - Voice", "Windows")
1992 Cherkazoo & Other Stories (Ian Gillan, archival recordings 1972-74)
1992 Wind in the Willows - A Rock Concert (Eddie Hardin, recorded live 1991, DVD 2003)
1992 The
Drums Are Back (Cozy Powell, "The Rocket", "The Legend Of The Glass Mountain")
1992 Zoom (Alvin Lee, "Real Life Blues", "Wake Up Moma")
1994 Carnival of Light (Ride, "Moonlight Medicine")
1994 How Does It Feel to Feel (Ride, EP, "Journey to the End of Universe")
1995 Still a Few Pages Left (Hardin & York, "
Stuck On You")
2002 Brainwashed (George Harrison, "
Brainwashed")
2003 Bluesheart (Miller Anderson, "
Help Me", "Runnin' Blues")
2005
Legends of Rock - 50 Jahre Rock (CD/DVD, live for ZDF 2004)
2005 Min Jul (Maria Arredondo, arrangements)
2006 Gillan's Inn (Ian Gillan, "When A
Blind Man Cries", "Demon's Eye", "Smoke On The Water")
2008 Army of One (Espen Lind, "Sweet Love", "The
Music Takes You There")
2009 Endangered Species - Live At Abbey Road 2000 (Tony Ashton & Friends, CD/DVD)
2009 Childline Rocks 2009 (Ltd. Ed., "Pictured Within", "Child in Time", "You Keep On Moving")
2010 Stay Tuned (Bernhard Welz, "
Child In Time")
2011 Dance (The Smith Quartet, writer of "Zarabanda Solitaria")
2011 Out of My Mind (WhoCares, charity CD single)
2011 The Odyssey, Live (David Bedford, archive performance from 1977)
Film & TV appearances
1991
Deep Purple -
Heavy Metal Pioneers (Warner, interviewee)
1995 Rock Family Trees, ep. 'Deep Purple' (BBC, interviewee)
2002 Classic Albums, ep. 'Deep Purple - Machine Head' (ITV, interviewee)
2004 The South Bank Show, ep. 'Malcolm Arnold - Toward the Unknown Region' (ITV, interviewee)
2007 Ian Gillan - Highway Star: A
Journey in Rock (interviewee)
2009 John Mortimer - A Life in Words (BBC, interviewee)
2009 Soul To Song, ep. 'Smoke On The Water' (Japanese TV, interviewee)
2010
Heavy Metal Britannia (BBC, interviewee)
2010 I'm in a Rock n' Roll Band, ep. 'The Other One' (BBC, interviewee)
2011 Metal Evolution (SkyArts, interviewee)
2011 How the Brits Rocked
America (BBC, interviewee)
Music videos (with
Whitesnake and Deep Purple)
1968 Hush
1969 Hallelujah
1970
Black Night
1970
Speed King
1971 Into The Fire
1971 Fireball
1971 Demon's Eye
1971 No No No
1972 Highway Star
1972 Never Before
1980 Fool For Your Loving
1981 Don't Break My
Heart Again
1984 Slow & Easy
1984 Love Ain't No Stranger
1985 Perfect Strangers
1985 Knocking at Your Back Door
1985 Under the Gun
1985 Nobody's Home
1987 Bad Attitude
1987 Call of the Wild
1988 Hush '88
1991 King of Dreams
1991 Love Conquers All
1996 Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming.
