Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson and Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover untied on Friday, November 5 in Gy?r, Hungary for Jon Lord’s ‘Concerto For Group And Orchestra’. Adding DEEP PURPLE tracks, the concert was performed by the Gy?r Symphony Orchestra together with Kaitner Z Doka (JON LORD, IAN PAICE, DON AIREY) on guitar and Bernhard Welz (JON LORD, DON AIREY) on drums. Also appearing at the event was conductor Paul Mann, a close friend of Jon‘s.
Bruce had this to say:
“As many people know, DEEP PURPLE have been a major, ongoing influence in my life since I was a teenager, and down the years, I have been fortunate enough to become good friends with all of the band, most especially in my collaborations with Jon Lord.”
Bruce sounded absolutely amazing with his vocal performances on Deep Purple classics such as “Perfect Strangers,” “When a Blind Man Cries,” and “Hush” to name a few. Watching Bruce perform these songs was a reminder of just what an epic vocalist he is and is without a doubt achieving God status.
During a September 2018 spoken-word gig in Copenhagen, Denmark, Dickinson talked about his friendship with Lord. He said: “Jon Lord was a wonderful gentleman, and we were close friends. And he sadly died of… He had pancreatic cancer, but he survived for a year and a half — much against what everybody had said would happen. And actually, at the end, he didn’t die of pancreatic cancer — he died, unfortunately, of some terrible blood collapse that happened with him, possibly as a result of treatment. But we had all kinds of crazy plans, including me going out on tour with him, singing DEEP PURPLE songs with an orchestra, which he was planning to do; that was one of the things we were planning to do. But it all got interrupted and canceled, and [it was] obviously very sad. He was a wonderful man.”
Lord died on July 16, 2012 at age 71 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
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