# Ritchie Blackmore Set to Play With Deep Purple After 33 Year-Estrangement

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/ritchie-blackmore-set-to-play-with-deep-purple-after-33-year-estrangement/
- Published: 2026-08-12T17:02:38+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-12T23:12:37+00:00
- Original publisher: Rolling Stone
- Original article: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ritchie-blackmore-deep-purple-33-years-1235607480/
- Topics: Offbeat, Weird & Viral

## Key points

- Blackmore plans a one-song Deep Purple encore.
- It would end 33 years apart.
- The band approved the proposed appearance.

## Summary

Ritchie Blackmore is set to make a one-song encore appearance with Deep Purple at their Jones Beach show in New York, ending a 33-year absence from the band’s live stage. The planned reunion is significant because Blackmore is the group’s founding guitarist and a key writer of its best-known songs, while previous prospects of him rejoining had repeatedly been ruled out.

Blackmore said he contacted singer Ian Gillan, who took the proposal to the rest of the band and received approval. He left Deep Purple amid tensions in 1993, and did not join the group at its 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction; since then, Steve Morse and later Simon McBride have filled the guitarist role.

## Coverage

- [Rolling Stone: Ritchie Blackmore Set to Play With Deep Purple After 33 Year-Estrangement](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ritchie-blackmore-deep-purple-33-years-1235607480/)
- [Louder: The explosive story of Ritchie Blackmore’s bitter exit from Deep Purple: “Ian Gillan has got a strange obnoxious side to him which is a side I don’t like”](https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/ritchie-blackmore-deep-purple-exit-1994)

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