Ritchie Blackmore by Ross Halfin

Rufus Publications and Ross Halfin are proud to present a new, limited edition book “Ritchie Blackmore” featuring hundreds of unseen images from Ross’s extensive library. Ritchie Blackmore, from Deep Purple through to Rainbow and now Blackmore’s Night is one of our most influential guitarists and Ross started photographing him and Rainbow from 1980 onwards. This new book is an intimate portrait of Blackmore both on and off stage and captures the brilliance and madness of Rainbow during those years. Ross had unparalleled access for several years and the images in this book often show Ritchie as you’ve never seen him before. It finishes with shots of early Blackmore’s Night in action. With an introduction by Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen who first saw Blackmore on stage at the age of 14 (and features in a photograph on the back of the legendary Made in Japan cover) and words by Ross and journalist Pete Makowski who knew and worked with Ritchie and Rainbow at the time. As Ross remembers... “Around this ti