The Battle Rages On - Deep Purple
Record company pressure forced Purple to rehire Ian Gillan to replace Joe Lynn Turner (who apparently had already recorded some stuff for this album). This is a forgotten Purple album, most people don't even know about it, but there's some great tracks on here, some really good jazzy stuff on here (Anya, Ramshackle Man) - plus the title track has a lot of power to me, I doubt JLT would have pulled that one off the same way.

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