DEEP PURPLE WANTED RITCHIE BLACKMORE WITH THEM AT THE ROCK HALL, IAN GILLAN SAYS BACKSTAGE

Backstage at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in Brooklyn, New York over the weekend, inductees Deep Purple said that reports that they didn’t want guitarist Ritchie Blackmore there are not true, and they talked about their induction at the hands of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich.