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The band that changed rock music for the worse, according to Ritchie Blackmore
(Credits: Far Out / Gladstone~dewiki) He might be inextricable from the profoundly experimental spirit of the 1960s and the formative years of metal, but Ritchie Blackmore has been an ever-present in music since he first broke out with Deep Purple. He’ …