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Jon Lord: It's All Music

Keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman pays tribute to his friend, Deep Purple's Jon Lord, the man who put the rock into the Hammond organ. Lord, who died last year, was always proud of his Leicester roots and went on to become not just a rock star but also a classical composer in his own right.

30 minutes

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Sun 14 Jul 2013 23:25

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Jon Lord's passion for acting

Jon Lord's passion for acting

Deep Purple keyboard player and founder Jon Lord played the Duchess of York in a school production of Richard III, his friend Rick Wakeman has discovered.

A year after Lord's death, Wakeman visited his home city of Leicester and discovered that Lord originally wanted to be an actor.

from the programme on the 大象传媒 News website.

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Presenter Rick Wakeman
Producer Matt Clare
Producer Tony Roe

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