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In 1988 Roger released a project with his old mate Ian Gillan,  Accidentally On Purpose.  Again he (and of course Ian, too) proves that he doesn't have any musical borders. This album covers pretty much all styles of music, Pop, Blues, even some Reggae and "soulish" elements can be noticed.

 

  • Clouds and Rain
  • Evil Eye
  • She Took My Breath Away
  • Dislocated
  • Via Miami
  • I Can't Dance To That
  • Can't Believe You Wanna Leave
  • Lonely Avenue
  • Telephone Box
  • I Thought No
  • Cayman Island
  • Purple People Eater
  • Chet
  • Andy Newmark: drums
  • Nick Maroch, Ira Siegel: guitar
  • Lloyd Landesman: keys
  • Dr. John: piano
  • Joe Mennonna, George Young: sax, horns
  • Randy Brecker: horns
  • Vanesse Thomas, Bette Sussman, Michele Graham, Rachel Collis, Grace Lewis, Chrissy Faith, Lydia Mann: backing vocals

  

The Singles

  
  From this album were several singles (and maxis) released.

The B-side of She Took My Breath Away is Cayman Island, on both, single and maxi.

The Dislocated maxi has the bonus track Purple People Eater.

Telephone Box was also released as a 12" Maxi in the U.S.

 

Dislocated / Chet 7"

She Took My Breath Away 7"

 

The song  Lonely Avenue  was picked for the soundtrack of the movie "Rain Main" with Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. I heard that in the UK there were also single releases of  Clouds And Rain  and  I Can't Dance To That, but I have no further information about that. If they exist, they are not part of my collection (yet...).