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Deep Purple's Jon Lord dies at 71

and if andsome says he's never heard of Deep Purple I'll come over all Victor Meldrew.

I have heard of him actually, not really my scene though. However I do seem to recall a decent one, correct me if I am wrong. 'A whiter shade of pale'.

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I have heard of him actually, not really my scene though. However I do seem to recall a decent one, correct me if I am wrong. 'A whiter shade of pale'.

Sorry Keith, it was by Procul Harum (and band members Gary Brooker, Keith Reid,and Matthew Fisher wrote it)

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I have heard of him actually, not really my scene though. However I do seem to recall a decent one, correct me if I am wrong. 'A whiter shade of pale'.

Sorry Keith, it was by Procul Harum (and band members Gary Brooker, Keith Reid,and Matthew Fisher wrote it)

Show just how much I know about pop.

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To Notice Such Things is a studio album by former Deep Purple keyboard player Jon Lord, released in 2010. It is titled after the main work, a six-movement suite for solo flute, piano and string orchestra, composed by Lord in memory of his close friend the late Sir John Mortimer, CBE, QC. The music emanates from that which Lord composed for the stage show, Mortimer’s Miscellany, which he also occasionally accompanied. To Notice Such Things is the last line of the Thomas Hardy poem “Afterwards”,[1] which ended the show.
/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Notice_Such_Things

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The works of Jon Lord go on and on.

To have missed his work is to have missed his pioneering in fusing rock with classical or baroque forms.

On 11 November 2010, he was inducted as an Honorary Fellow of Stevenson College in Edinburgh, Scotland.

On 15 July 2011, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree by the University of Leicester.

Sarabande is considered one of Jon Lord's best solo works.

Lord was quoted: "the compostitions were good, the musicians were outstanding and the conductor understood the music. Everything came together and I have to say, nothing I made before or since comes close to Sarabande."
/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarabande_(album)

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