Fans can thank Candice Night for convincing husband Ritchie Blackmore to sit down in his private tavern in front of a camera and share some of the great rock stories he's been telling his inner circle for decades. "Candice here is always asking me to write these stories down and they're kind of private, and sometimes silly," says Blackmore in the video below. "I would never write a book but I have stories I will tell my friends when I'm in the bar drinking, like now."
In the latest of these stories, he looks back on meeting Eric Clapton when Deep Purple supported Cream in 1968. Things were so cordial Clapton even gifted Blackmore a toy wooden duck on his birthday during the tour, but years later an incident in an Australian hotel was less warm.
