Brown/who do we think they are, 2. Wizard of the Art: Jon Lord

In Chapter 2, James Dickinson not only seeks to place Lord alongside progressive rock and neo-classical greats, Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman, as a virtuoso keyboard player, but also to draw attention to his dynamic musical relationship with guitarist Ritchie Blackmore that fused a baroque classical and R&B rhythmic attackby developing a way to play his Hammond C3 organ through a 200watt Marshall amplification set up, creating a powerful, heavy and distorted legato underpinning to Blackmore’s guitar riffs, as well as offering a solo virtuosity of equally striking proportions to that of the lead guitarist.