Jon Lord

**John Douglas "Jon" Lord** (9 June 1941 – 16 July 2012) was a British rock musician. 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.

## Discography
### 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)

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