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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