Culture: Lord to Spread Durham Word ; for Years Jon Lord Rocked the Charts with Heavy Metal. Neil Mckay Hears How the Former Deep Purple Keyboard Player Turned Classical.

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FOR three decades, he was a key element of one of the loudest rock groups on the planet. Deep Purple ranked alongside Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath as purveyors of heavy metal.

Smoke on the Water, Child in Time and Strange Kinda Woman were just some of the anthems any fan of the genre in the 70s would have had on the turntable.

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Culture: Lord to Spread Durham Word ; for Years Jon Lord Rocked the Charts with Heavy Metal. Neil Mckay Hears How the Former Deep Purple Keyboard Player Turned Classical.

But tonight one of Deep Purple's founder members, keyboard player Jon Lord, will be at Durham Cathedral for something vastly different - the sell-out world premiere of his composition, Durha...

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