Desc: Jon Lord: It's All Music: With Jon Lord, Lee Marlow, Jenny Moran, Ian Paice. Keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman pays tribute to his friend, Deep Purple's Jon Lord, the man who put the rock into the Hammond organ. Lord, who died in 2012, aged 71, was always proud of his Leicester roots and went on to become not just a rock star but also a classical composer in his own right.