Jon Lord

Artist:  Jon Lord
Birth Name:  Jonathan Douglas Lord
Born:   June 9, 1941.  Leicester, England
Died:   July 16, 2012 (Aged 71).  London, England
Genre:  Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Blues Rock, Progressive Rock, Classical Rock, Jazz, Jazz Rock
Occupations:  Musician, Songwriter
Instruments:  Keyboards, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, Vocals

Joh Lord was an English Composer, Pianist and Hammond Organ Player, best-known as Keyboards of one of the best Hard Rock Group Deep Purple, besides his works with Whitesnake, Paice, Ashton & Lord, The Artwoods and Flower Pot Men.

In 1968,  Joh Lord founded Deep Purple, he wrote the organ riff on "Child In Time", he retired from Deep Purple in 2002.  In 2011, he was granted an Honorary Doctor Of Music Degree by his home town's University of Leicester.  He died on 16th July, 2012 after suffering from pancreatic cancer at the London Clinic.

Title:  Before I Forget  (1982)
Genre:  Progressive Rock
Label:  EMI (Japan)
Rating:  *****

Tracks:

 1.  Chance On A Feeling  (4:06)
 2.  Tender Babe  (4:04)
 3.  Hollywood Rock And Roll  (4:06)
 4.  Bach Onto This  (7:59)
 5.  Before I Forget  (5:04)
 6.  Say Its Alright  (4:47)
 7.  Burntwood  (4:00)
 8.  Where Are You?  (5:00)

Personnel:

Jon Lord:  Piano, Organ, Keyboards, Mini Moog
Bernie Marsden:  Guitar (Track 1, 4), Lead Vocals (Track 1)
Mick Ralphs:  Guitar (Track 3, 6)
Tony Ashton:  Lead Vocals  (Track 3)
Elmer Gantry:  Lead Vocals  (Track 8)
Vicky Brown:  Lead Vocals (Track 2, 11), Backing Vocals (Tracks 1, 3, 5, 6)
Sam Brown:  Backing Vocals (Track 1, 3, 5, 6)
Boz Burrell:  Bass (Track 3)
Neil Murray:  Bass (Track 1, 2, 4-7)

Ian Paice:  Drums (Track 1, 5)
Cozy Powell:  Drums  (Track 2)
Simon Phillips:  Drums (Track 4, 6)
Simon Kirke:  Drums (Track 3)

Produced by Jon Lord

Before I Forget is an album by Jon Lord, released in June 28, 1982 on EMI (Japan), contained of the great eight songs either mainstream rock tracks, with beautiful Organ Hammond on "Tender Babes" and "Bach Onto This", beautiful Piano on "Before I Forget", "Say It's All Right" and "Burntwood", beautiful voice on "Say It's All Right" and Where Are You".