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Jon Lord
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English composer, pianist, and Hammond organ player (1941–2012)
OverviewAI-generated
Jon Lord (1941–2012) was a musician whose professional career began in 1967. Associated with the Deep Purple family, his musical style is categorized under progressive rock, classic rock, classical, and rock. He is recognized as the author of two works, including the *Jon Lord Collection* and *Jon Lord - Keyboards and Organ Anthology*.
Lord’s music has been streamed 473,868 times by 36,452 listeners on Last.fm. His official website is jonlord.org. The subject is referenced by 545 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Firecrawl, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Douglas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Leicester
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Educated at
- Drama Centre London
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- symphonic music
- Movement
- classical music
- Instrument
- musical keyboard
- Record label
- Purple Records
- Official website
- jonlord.org
- Image
- Jon2 sunflower 2007.JPG
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- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Jon Lord
- member of
- Whitesnake
- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- date of death
- 2012-07-16
- date of birth
- 1941-06-09
- name in native language
- Jon Lord
- start of work period
- 1967-00-00
- birth name
- Jonathan Douglas Lord
- copyright representative
- PRS for Music
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Encyclopedic overview
John Douglas "Jon" Lord (9 June 1941 – 16 July 2012) was an English keyboardist and composer. In 1968, Lord co-founded the hard rock band Deep Purple. Lord performed on most of the band's most popular songs; he and drummer Ian Paice were the only continuous members in the band between 1968 and 1976, and also from its revival in 1984 until his retirement in 2002. He also played for the bands Whitesnake, Paice Ashton Lord, the Artwoods, the Flower Pot Men and Santa Barbara Machine Head.
Lord became known for his pioneering work in fusing rock with classical or baroque forms, especially with Deep Purple. His distinctive organ playing during Deep Purple's hard rock period was essential to the band's signature heavy sound and contributed to the early development of heavy metal. On 11 November 2010, he was inducted as an Honorary Fellow of Stevenson College in Edinburgh, Scotland. On 15 July 2011, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree at De Montfort Hall by the University of Leicester. Lord was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 8 April 2016 as a member of Deep Purple.
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