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Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow: Seeing is Believing

Garry Bushell, Sounds, 4 December 1982

MOST PEOPLE reckon Ritchie Blackmore's a miserable bastard. Mean, moody, mysterious, macabre and, by implication, Mandraxed to the gills, the Blackmore of popular imigination has a heart as black as his stage clothes and all the humour of a burning orphanage.

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