Died John Lord

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16 July 72, died Jon Lord, Deep Purple keyboardist and composer who combined rock 'n' roll, the 12-bar blues, classical and baroque organ Hammond.

Jon Lord will be remembered primarily as a keyboardist, founder and leader of Deep Purple. It was a great band, and it would be without the Lord was not, as there would be a whole tradition of great games that started with him.
Lord, who was born in 1941, with five years of learning to play the piano. As a teenager he loved the blues and hammondovsky electric organ.
The standard biography, in which everything is important. The Lord loved Bach and Renaissance music, which always discernible in his improvisations, he used the blues harmony. And he refused at the time of synthesizers: Moog and when there was some advanced rockers carried away without the possibility of cosmic sonorities of polyphony, the Lord remained faithful to live sound and features virtuoso playing.
On the "Mugah", however, he played later, when Deep Purple disbanded and the Lord spoke with the band Whitesnake, where he had a whole rack of analog synthesizers.
Prior to 1968, Lord changed several jazz and blues groups, played in several formulations, have won the articles in encyclopedias, and met with Ritchie Blackmore and Ian Pace.
And then was 34 games in all the compositions of one of the most influential, no matter what anyone says, rock bands on Earth. Electric organ, passed through the distortion, and other analog gadgets, virtuoso guitar solos for the infinitely long keyboards and drums are really complex orchestration, the authorship or co-authorship of all the great songs from the band, including the famous «Smoke On The Water».
The Lord brought to rock music piano and harpsichord, Bach and Scarlatti, classic shape and unmistakable improvisation without turning it into something with the absurd and ponderous. This rock was available to the proletariat and adolescents, although the sophisticated listener could not find it surprising influence, communication and association.
In addition, the Lord was a real composer: "Bi-bi-si," and various other organizations have commissioned him to music, it fit into the time he wrote it and sang with the band and orchestra. With the time he did not have any problems, actually. Roger Glover was amazed how a Lord is always the most successful improvisations are obtained from the first time.
Held in 1982 was a fantastic reunion group is successful, and the Lord with all of the compositions played Deep Purple until 2002, when happily and quietly retired, still, nevertheless, record albums and concerts. He had a leg injury, which then passed without a trace of itself.
It seems that it was psychosomatic, the main British rock band of the last third of XX century, he just tired.
He released solo albums throughout his career by writing them with the best musicians, who considered it an honor to work with him. But recent work simply amazing: the «Sarabande» 2002, Bach's Suite for a classic shape and a rather subtle meditation on the history of rock 'n' roll of the XX century, and very personal and sad «Pictured Within» 1998 in memory of his mother, and Last «To Notice Such Things», which hit the British charts of classical music, and surprisingly good for such a work was sold.
It is strange to even talk about it, but his death was unexpected and tragic. Lord this year worked with the supergroup Who Cares?, In which he sang, Ian Gillan, guitarist Tommy Iommi played in Black Sabbath and Mikko Lindstrom from HIM, bassist Jason Newsted of Metallica and drummer Nico MakBreen of Iron Maiden. In September 2012 released a new edition of the legendary, penned by Lord, "Concerto for Group and Orchestra," written with Bruce Dickinson, Joe Bonamassogoy and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Lord was to speak in Hagen little more than two weeks ago, on June 28. His last concert was canceled: the standard treatment was delayed, he apologized to fans and said that worry is not necessary.
It turned out I had to worry about.

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