Jon Lord

**John Douglas "Jon" Lord** (9 June 1941 – 16 July 2012) was a British rock musician. He was born and raised in Leicester. He moved to London in his late teens. He was a member of rock bands Deep Purple and Whitesnake. In 2011, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He died of a pulmonary embolism at the London Clinic, Westminster, London.

### Santa Barbara Machine Head

- 1968 _Blues Anytime Vol. 3_ ("Porcupine Juice", "Albert", "Rubber Monkey")
- 1969 _An Anthology of British Blues Vol. 2_
- 2002 _Pre-Purple People_ ("Porcupine Juice", "Albert", "Rubber Monkey")

### Solo and orchestral works with Deep Purple

- 1969 _Concerto for Group and Orchestra_ (with Deep Purple)
- 1971 _The Last Rebel_ (with Ashton, Gardner & Dyke) - motion picture soundtrack
- 1972 _Gemini Suite_
- 1974 _First of the Big Bands_ (with Tony Ashton)
- 1974 _Windows_ (with Eberhard Schoener)
- 1976 _Sarabande_
- 1982 _Before I Forget_
- 1984 _Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady_ (with Alfred Ralston) - television series soundtrack
- 1993 _Gemini Suite Live_ (with Deep Purple)
- 1993 _First of the Big Bands - BBC Live in Concert 1974_ (with Tony Ashton)
- 1996 _The Best_ (compilation)
- 1998 _Pictured Within_
- 2000 _In Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra_ (with Deep Purple)
- 2003 _Jon Lord With Pictures_ (DVD documentary)
- 2004 _Beyond The Notes_
- 2004 _Beyond The Notes Live_ (DVD)
- 2008 _Boom of the Tingling Strings_
- 2008 _Durham Concerto_
- 2010 _To Notice Such Things_
- 2011 _Jon Lord Blues Project Live_
- 2011 _Jon Lord Live (Bucharest 2009)_
- 2012 _Concerto for Group and Orchestra_ (new studio version)

### With The Hoochie Coochie Men

- 2003 _Live at the Basement_
- 2007 _Danger. White Men Dancing_

### Other credits

- 1964 _Kinks_ (The Kinks, "You Really Got Me")
- 1967 _Sound & Movement_ (The Leading Figures)
- 1968 _I Shall Be Released/Down in the Flood_ (Boz Burrell, SP)
- 1968 _Sundragon_ (Sundragon)
- 1968 _Madena/Standing Still_ (Anan, SP)
- 1972 _What a Bloody Long Day It's Been_ (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke, "The Falling Song" - strings arr.)
- 1974 _Rampant_ (Nazareth, "Glad When You're Gone", "Shanghai'd in Shanghai")
- 1976 _Wizard's Convention_ (Eddie Hardin)
- 1978 _More Than Meets the Eye_ (Joe Breen)
- 1979 _Commercial Road_ (Richard Digance)
- 1979 _And About Time Too_ (Bernie Marsden])
- 1980 _Look at Me Now_ (Bernie Marsden)
- 1981 _Line-Up_ (Graham Bonnett)
- 1982 _Gone Troppo_ (George Harrison, "Circles")
- 1983 _Octopuss_ (Cozy Powell)
- 1984 _About Face_ (David Gilmour)
- 1985 _Wind in the Willows_ (Eddie Hardin)
- 1986 _Detroit Diesel_ (Alvin Lee, "Ordinary Man", "Let's Go")
- 1989 _Super Drumming Folge 1 & 2_ (Pete York)
- 1990 _Rock Aid Armenia - The Earthquake Album_ ("Smoke on the Water '90")
- 1990 _About Love and Life_ (Vicki Brown, "We Are One")
- 1990 _April Moon_ (Sam Brown, "Contradictions")
- 1990 _Pete York Presents Super Drumming Volume 3_ ("I Got Rhythm", "Heavy Ravel", "Gemini - Voice", "Windows")
- 1992 _Cherkazoo & Other Stories_ (Ian Gillan, archival recordings 1972-74)
- 1992 _Wind in the Willows - A Rock Concert_ (Eddie Hardin, recorded live 1991, DVD 2003)
- 1992 _The Drums Are Back_ (Cozy Powell, "The Rocket", "The Legend Of The Glass Mountain")
- 1992 _Zoom_ (Alvin Lee, "Real Life Blues", "Wake Up Moma")
- 1994 _Carnival of Light_ (Ride, "Moonlight Medicine")
- 1994 _How Does It Feel to Feel_ (Ride, EP, "Journey to the End of Universe")
- 1995 _Still a Few Pages Left_ (Hardin & York, "Stuck On You")
- 2002 _Brainwashed_ (George Harrison, "Brainwashed")
- 2003 _Bluesheart_ (Miller Anderson, "Help Me", "Runnin' Blues")
- 2005 _Legends of Rock - 50 Jahre Rock_ (CD/DVD, live for ZDF 2004)
- 2005 _Min Jul_ (Maria Arredondo, arrangements)
- 2006 _Gillan's Inn_ (Ian Gillan, "When A Blind Man Cries", "Demon's Eye", "Smoke On The Water")
- 2008 _Army of One_ (Espen Lind, "Sweet Love", "The Music Takes You There")
- 2009 _Endangered Species - Live At Abbey Road 2000_ (Tony Ashton & Friends, CD/DVD)
- 2009 _Childline Rocks 2009_ (Ltd. Ed., "Pictured Within", "Child in Time", "You Keep On Moving")
- 2010 _Stay Tuned_ (Bernhard Welz, "Child In Time")
- 2011 _Dance_ (The Smith Quartet, writer of "Zarabanda Solitaria")
- 2011 _Out of My Mind_ (WhoCares, charity CD single)
- 2011 _The Odyssey, Live_ (David Bedford, archive performance from 1977)

### Film & TV appearances

- 1991 _Deep Purple - Heavy Metal Pioneers_ (Warner, interviewee)
- 1995 _Rock Family Trees, ep. 'Deep Purple** (BBC, interviewee)
- 2002 _Classic Albums, ep. 'Deep Purple - Machine Head** (ITV, interviewee)
- 2004 _The South Bank Show, ep. 'Malcolm Arnold - Toward the Unknown Region** (ITV, interviewee)
- 2007 _Ian Gillan - Highway Star: A Journey in Rock_ (interviewee)
- 2009 _John Mortimer - A Life in Words_ (BBC, interviewee)
- 2009 _Soul To Song, ep. 'Smoke On The Water** (Japanese TV, interviewee)
- 2010 _Heavy Metal Britannia_ (BBC, interviewee)
- 2010 _I'm in a Rock n' Roll Band, ep. 'The Other One_' (BBC, interviewee)
- 2011 _Metal Evolution_ (SkyArts, interviewee)
- 2011 _How the Brits Rocked America_ (BBC, interviewee)

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Jon Lord
- **caption**: Jon Lord in 1973
- **background**: non_vocal_instrumentalist
- **birth name**: John Douglas Lord
- **birth place**: Leicester, England
- **death place**: London, England
- **instrument**: Keyboard instrument, Keyboards, organ (music), organ, Hammond organ, piano, synthesizer, Singing, vocals
- **genre**: Rock music, Rock, hard rock, Heavy metal music, heavy metal, blues rock, progressive rock, Classical music, classical, jazz, jazz fusion
- **occupation**: Musician, songwriter
- **years active**: 1956–2012
- **label**: Purple Records, Purple, EMI, Harvest Records, Harvest
- **associated acts**: Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Paice, Ashton & Lord, The Artwoods, The Flower Pot Men (band), The Flower Pot Men