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  "id": 729984,
  "title": "Ritchie Blackmore Performs With Deep Purple for the First Time Since Acrimonious Split in Early ’90s, After Warning Fans: ‘I Have Not Played Rock Music in 25 Years’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/ritchie-blackmore-performs-with-deep-purple-for-the-first-time-since",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-13T04:27:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/music/news/ritchie-blackmore-deep-purple-performs-smoke-on-the-water-1236833509/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Deep Purple fans had mostly given up any hopes of seeing the band ever share a stage with founding guitarist Ritchie Blackmore again, due to a well-known estrangement. But that’s exactly what took place near the end of the group’s show Wednesday night at Jones Beach in New York, as hatchets were buried and Blackmore […]",
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      {
        "outlet": "Rolling Stone",
        "title": "Watch Ritchie Blackmore Reunite With Deep Purple For ‘Smoke on the Water’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/watch-ritchie-blackmore-reunite-with-deep-purple-for-smoke-on-the",
        "published": "2026-08-13T13:53:10.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}