Come Taste the Band Purple in 1984. When Ritchie Blackmore left Deep Purple in 1975, there was uncertainty over whether the band would continue, as they did when Ian Gillan and Roger Glover left in 1973. It was David Coverdale who asked Jon Lord to keep the band together, and Coverdale was also a major factor in recruiting Tommy Bolin to take the guitar slot after hearing Bolin's work on the Billy Cobham solo album "Spectrum". Rehearsals for the album were recorded by Robert Simon, who was originally engineering the album. But after a dispute with the band over scheduling, the band left Simon's
Graham Bonnet the Danish heavy metal band Pretty Maids' "Future World" and numerous session work for Forcefield, appearing on "To Oz and Back" and "Let The Wild Run Free". In 1988, Bonnet joined Impellitteri, for their album "Stand in Line". An appearance on Eddie Hardin and Pete York's musical adaptation of "Wind in The Willows", performed live in Germany in 1991, saw Bonnet sing on around six of the songs alongside fellow musicians Jon Lord, Don Airey and Ray Fenwick amongst others. Fenwick and Airey also featured heavily on Bonnet's 1991 solo album "Here Comes The Night" which includes several covers as