Background
As Gillan himself tells, he was in the Jewish Quarter of Cracow listening to the related stories of Oscar Schindler when the voice faded - and then returned and somebody told him: 'Ah, Ian you have one eye to Morocco.' - It was Tommy Djiubinski. Ian didn't understand the meaning of this Polish idiom, until he was told the whole idiom: "To have one eye to Morocco and another to Caucasus". The idiom describes a cross-eyed, or wandering eye person. This idiom inspired Gillan to make another solo album, and the title for the album was set to "One Eye To Morocco."
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