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| While
recording the Deep Purple album House Of Blue Light, Gillan/Glover wrote
some songs that didn't fit into the Purple formula. During the American
leg of the tour Ian Gillan and Roger Glover choose to travel by bus and
while enjoying themselves they continued to write more songs. At one of
the concerts Ritchie Blackmore accidentally broke on of his fingers and
the rest of the tour was canceled. Roger Glover and Ian Gillan went to New York where they finished and mixed the album. Ian Gillan still had a contract with his old record company, Virgin records, and they released it in February 1988. The album itself is a very varied piece of music that mixes a lot of different styles. Even though the album was and still is a big favorite to many fans it never had a big commercial success outside the Deep Purple fan base. Roger explained it like this a few years ago: "Accidentally On Purpose was a good case in point of a record company stabbing us in the back. We finished that album and it was out a week and then they dropped us. They dropped us for some political reason. It was nothing to do with us, it was nothing whatsoever to do with us. And yet there's this album that we put a lot of our heart and soul into and suddenly all the money went from the promotion. The rug was pulled out from under our feet and we were left dangling with nothing but an album in some shops that wasn't getting any promotion. That's a hard pill to swallow. I was very depressed about that." They didn't play any live concerts to promote the album but they managed to do a few TV-show appearances. We can only hope that the two of them can find the time to make a new Gillan & Glover album sometime in the future. |
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| ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE |  |
| Released: February 1988 [LP & CD] | |
| Recorded
at Air Montserrat, B.W.I 1988 |
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| Produced by: Roger Glover and Ian Gillan Engineered by: Nick Blagona | |
