Abandon (album)

Abandon
Studio album by Deep Purple
Released	2 June 1998
Recorded	1997 to 1998
Genre	Hard rock
Length	56:18
Label	EMI (UK) CMC International (US)
Producer	Deep Purple/Roger Glover
Deep Purple chronology
Purpendicular (1996) Abandon (1998) Bananas (2003)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Abandon is the sixteenth studio album by Deep Purple released in the Spring of 1998. It was Deep Purple's second album with Steve Morse on guitar and the last one with founding member Jon Lord.

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 single was, however, mastered in stereo.

Track listing

All songs written by Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, Steve Morse, Ian Paice, except where noted.

1. "Any Fule Kno That" – 4:29
2. "Almost Human" – 4:26
3. "Don't Make Me Happy" – 4:56
4. "Seventh Heaven" – 5:25
5. "Watching the Sky" – 5:26
6. "Fingers to the Bone" – 4:47
7. "Jack Ruby" – 3:48
8. "She Was" – 4:19
9. "Whatsername" – 4:26
10. "'69" – 4:59
11. "Evil Louie" – 4:56
12. "Bludsucker" (Ritchie Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice) – 4:27

Personnel

Deep Purple

• Jon Lord – organ, keyboards
• Ian Paice – drums
• Ian Gillan – vocals
• Roger Glover – bass
• Steve Morse – guitar

Production notes

• Recorded at Greg Rike Studios, Altamonte Springs, Florida, 1997/1998
• Produced by Deep Purple/Roger Glover
• Engineered by Darren Schneider
• Additional engineering by Keith Andrews
• Mixed at Platinum Post Studios, Orlando by Darren Schneider
• Assistant engineer – Kent Huffnagle with Shannon Brady
• Mastered at Masterdisk, New York by Greg Calbi

Charts

Chart (1998)	Peak position
Norwegian Albums Chart	6
Finnish Albums Chart	14
German Albums Chart	16
Hungarian Albums Chart	22
Austrian Albums Chart	25
Swedish Albums Chart	32
Swiss Albums Chart	46
Japanese Albums Chart	58
French Albums Chart	65
UK Albums Chart	76

References

1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Abandon (album) at AllMusic