John Lord was born in the English Midlands in 1941. As a child, he played classical music, but increasingly, what he loved was American blues. As a young man, Lord played in jazz groups and trained to be an actor. In 1968, he was taken on as keyboard player in Deep Purple, a heavy metal group. Lord's obvious musical skills contributed much to the band. The line-up of Deep Purple changed over the years; and John Lord also contributed two other groups. But he was one of the chief architects of the heavy metal sound of the late 1960s and 1970s.
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Fighting in Syria appears to be moving closer to the center of the capital Damascus. In the past two days, there have been clashes between government forces and rebel fighters in much of the southern area of the city. This report by Jim Muir.
叙利亚的战斗似乎在向首都大马士革中心逼进,在过去两天内,政府军和叛军在该市南部大部分地区发生了冲突。Jim Muir报道。
The sound of heavy machine gun exchanges echoed around the Midan district on the southern approaches to Damascus city center. Unverified video posted by activists on the internet showed a car completely engulfed in flames in a street in Midan, saying it had been full of security forces or pro-regime militia. Other video footage showed large numbers of security forces and armored vehicles in the adjacent district of Nahaitia – the first time such combat forces have been deployed close to the city center. Many people there have been hearing the sounds of battle for the first time since the uprising began 16 months ago. Earlier, Russia said Western efforts to get Moscow to change its policy on Syria amounted to blackmail.