Don Airey
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Don Airey (born June 21, 1948) is the keyboardist in the rock band Deep Purple from 2003, succeeding to Jon Lord. He has had a long and productive career, playing with such people and bands as Gary Moore, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Whitesnake, Colosseum II, Sinner, Michael Schenker, Uli Jon Roth, Rainbow, and Living Loud. He has also worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Don Airey was born in Sunderland, in Northeast England on June 21, 1948. He took a love for music at a young age and was trained in classical piano. He continued his love for music by earning a degree at Nottingham University and a diploma at the Royal Northern College of Music. In 1974 he moved to London and joined Cozy Powell’s band Hammer. Don worked on several albums with solo artists until 1978 when Don joined the band Black Sabbath for a brief time. He contributed with keyboards to the album Never Say Die!. Soon after though, he joined guitarist Ritchie Blackmore’s band Rainbow and featured on Gary Moore’s solo debut Back On The Streets. With Rainbow he contributed to two hit albums, Down to Earth and Difficult to Cure. In 1980 Don played on Ozzy Osbourne’s first solo album, The Blizzard of Ozz where he had a famous and slightly gothic intro to the song Mr. Crowley.
Don Airey was born in Sunderland, in Northeast England on June 21, 1948. He took a love for music at a young age and was trained in classical piano. He continued his love for music by earning a degree at Nottingham University and a diploma at the Royal Northern College of Music. In 1974 he moved to London and joined Cozy Powell’s band Hammer. Don worked on several albums with solo artists until 1978 when Don joined the band Black Sabbath for a brief time. He contributed with keyboards to the album Never Say Die!. Soon after though, he joined guitarist Ritchie Blackmore’s band Rainbow and featured on Gary Moore’s solo debut Back On The Streets. With Rainbow he contributed to two hit albums, Down to Earth and Difficult to Cure. In 1980 Don played on Ozzy Osbourne’s first solo album, The Blizzard of Ozz where he had a famous and slightly gothic intro to the song Mr. Crowley.
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MikeySchenker
Julie (If You Leave Me)... so beautiful...
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Arbuz
Liked his album too! HQ album!
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Lionheartattack
His new solo, A Light in the Sky, isn't that popular, now, is it? :D It's a good record however, I bought it for little over a week ago.
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FernandoDANTE
Brilliant keyboard player!!!
