{"id":860914,"date":"2026-08-19T14:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/860914\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:36:21","slug":"simon-mcbride-defends-ritchie-blackmores-playing-of-smoke-at-purple-reunion-as-he-admits-praise-from-blackmore-came-as-a-shock-people-should-look-at-it-for-what-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/860914\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon McBride Defends Ritchie Blackmore's Playing of 'Smoke' at Purple Reunion as He Admits Praise From Blackmore Came as a 'Shock': 'People Should Look at It for What It Was: a Magical Night' – Ultimate Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Simon McBride Defends Ritchie Blackmore’s Playing of ‘Smoke’ at Purple Reunion as He Admits Praise From Blackmore Came as a ‘Shock’: ‘People Should Look at It for What It Was: a Magical Night’<\/a>  Ultimate Guitar\u201cI wasn\u2019t there to play correct notes. I was there to see old friends\u201d: Ritchie Blackmore opens up on his Deep Purple reunion performance<\/a>  Guitar WorldRitchie Blackmore Says Deep Purple Reunion \u2018Could Be the Last Time We See Each Other\u2019<\/a>  People.comRitchie Blackmore Reunites With Deep Purple After 33 Years<\/a>  noise11.comDeep Purple guitarist Simon McBride on sharing the stage with Ritchie Blackmore: \u201cIf I can play that well when I\u2019m that age, I\u2019ll be happy. People should look at it for what it was \u2013 a magical night\u201d<\/a>  Guitar World<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simon McBride Defends Ritchie Blackmore’s Playing of ‘Smoke’ at Purple Reunion as He Admits Praise From Blackmore Came…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,344072,134,22356,430726,430725,430727],"class_list":["post-860914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-deep-purple","tag-entertainment","tag-ritchie-blackmore","tag-ritchie-blackmore-deep-purple-reunion","tag-simon-mcbride","tag-smoke-on-the-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}