David Coverdale recording "Slide It In" to re-form Deep Purple. (Ian Paice had left Whitesnake in 1982.) In 1985, Sykes and Coverdale started working on new songs for the next album, but Coverdale soon contracted a serious sinus infection that made recording close to impossible for much of 1986 and which had doctors thinking he might never sing again. Coverdale eventually recovered, and recordings were continued. But before their upcoming album was fully recorded and released, Coverdale had dismissed Sykes from the band. The split with Sykes was, reportedly, not amicable. In many period interviews, Coverdale stated that the next album was
Magic (Gillan album) reissued in 1989 and in 2007 with seven bonus tracks, including cover versions and B-sides. Side 1 Side 2 In 1989 Virgin re-released the album in CD format. The revised track listing was as follows: Total running time 74.50 <nowiki>*</nowiki> Previously unreleased In 2007 the album was re-released in CD format again on the Edsel label. Magic (Gillan album) Magic is an album by British rock band Gillan, their final collaboration, released in October 1982. It features eight original songs, mostly co-written by Ian Gillan and Colin Towns, and a cover of Stevie Wonder's 1973 hit single "Living For The