Roger Glover riff to 'Maybe I'm a Leo' after hearing John Lennon's 'How Do You Sleep?'." Glover contributed bass on Jon Lord's first solo album, 'Gemini Suite' [1971), and was the featured soloist in the bass movement. Glover departed Deep Purple, along with Gillan, after the band's second tour of Japan in the summer of 1973. Throughout the 1970s Glover produced albums and/or singles by such acts as Judas Priest, Nazareth, Elf, Status Quo, the Ian Gillan Band and David Coverdale. In 1974 Glover released his first solo album, "The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast", which generated the single "Love Is
Gillan (band) to the UK to appear on Top of the Pops. Tormé was replaced by White Spirit guitarist Janick Gers (who would later join Iron Maiden) and this line-up released the live/studio double album "Double Trouble" at the end of 1981. In August 1982, the final album "Magic" followed. By this time, tension over money had reached fever pitch and Ian Gillan needed time to have nodes removed from his vocal cords. After the "Magic" tour, the band performed a final show at the Wembley Arena on 17 December, and then Ian Gillan dissolved the group while he underwent surgery. He