Jon Lord (1941–2012) was an English organist and composer, best known as a mainstay of hard-rockers Deep Purple. An early proponent of orchestral rock, he composed the band’s three-movement Gemini Suite, recorded in 1970 with the Orchestra of the Light Music Society. Lord first emerged in The Artwoods, an R&B/beat group with drummer Keef Hartley […]
Malice in Wonderland is a 1977 album by English hard-rock trio Paice Ashton Lord, released stateside on Warner Bros. and in Europe on Oyster/Polydor. The album marked the second collaboration between former Ashton Gardner & Dyke vocalist Tony Ashton and once/future Deep Purple organist Jon Lord, who are joined on this recording by Purple drummer […]
Paice Ashton Lord was an English hard-rock band that released the album Malice in Wonderland on Oyster/Polydor in 1977. They centered on the super-trinity of vocalist Tony Ashton, organist Jon Lord, and drummer Ian Paice, the latter two of once-and-future Deep Purple fame. The project evolved from the 1974 album First of the Big Bands, […]
