Slaves and Masters is the thirteenth studio album by Deep Purple, and was released in 1990. This is the band's only album to feature singer Joe Lynn Turner, who joined the previous year (and was once the lead singer of Ritchie Blackmore's band Rainbow).
Before hiring Turner, the band had considered singer Jimi Jamison of Survivor, but other obligations made him unavailable. Hard rock-based core Purple fans thought the vocal parts ended up being a bit too melodic. However, Turner was still a member of the group when they began recording their next album in 1992.
The album did not sell very well, and only peaked at #87 on the Billboard Charts. Despite generally poor album sales, Deep Purple had actually had a relatively successful tour in support of Slaves and Masters in '91 (the European leg was very successful in particular).
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“When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No, I am not patriotic.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. He alone lives, while other people, slaves of ceremony, let life slip past them in a kind of dream.”
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