{"id":589460,"date":"2026-08-19T12:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/589460\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T12:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:20:09","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\/il\/589460\/","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 GuitarEXCLUSIVE: Ritchie Blackmore reveals the story behind his emotional Deep Purple reunion. \u201cI think we realized it could be the last time we see each other\u201d<\/a>  Guitar Player\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 WorldThe guitar genius of Ritchie Blackmore in 5 classic tracks<\/a>  MusicRadarDeep Purple guitarist Simon McBride on sharing the stage with Ritchie Blackmore \u2013 and the reunion nobody thought would happen<\/a>  Yahoo<\/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":589461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,237388,146,85,46,266731,266732,266730,266733],"class_list":["post-589460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-deep-purple","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-ritchie-blackmore","tag-ritchie-blackmore-deep-purple-reunion","tag-simon-mcbride","tag-smoke-on-the-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}