Released 2 June 1998 Length 56:18 Artist Deep Purple Label CMC International | Recorded 1997 to 1998 Abandon
(1998) Bananas
(2003) Release date 2 June 1998 Genres Hard rock, Heavy metal | |
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Studio Greg Rike Studios, Altamonte Springs, Florida Producer Deep Purple & Roger Glover Similar Bananas, The Battle Rages On, Purpendicular, Rapture of the Deep, The House of Blue Light | ||
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Abandon is the sixteenth studio album by the British hard rock band Deep Purple, released in the Spring of 1998. It was Deep Purple's second album with Steve Morse on guitar and the last album to feature founding member Jon Lord prior to his departure in 2002.
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The album was followed by a successful 1998/1999 world tour which brought Deep Purple to Australia for the first time in 15 years. In 1999 a live album and DVD Total Abandon: Australia '99 recorded in Melbourne on 20 April 1999 was released.
The album title is actually a pun from Ian Gillan – "A Band On" – and the album was followed by the "A Band on Tour". Uniquely for a Deep Purple studio album, it features a reworking of a previously recorded song -"Bloodsucker" from Deep Purple in Rock (here re-titled "Bludsucker"). "Don't Make Me Happy" was mistakenly mastered in mono, and not amended on the final release. One of the two versions of the song released on promo single was, however, mastered in stereo.
Track listing
All tracks written by Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, Steve Morse, Ian Paice, except where noted..
Personnel
Songs
1Any Fule Kno That4:28
2Almost Human4:26
3Don't Make Me Happy4:56