 When Ashton, Gardner and Dyke broke up in 1973 Ashton briefly joined Family, and played a prominent role on the last Family album "It's Only A Movie", sharing lead vocal duties with Roger Chapman on the title track and also on "Sweet Desiree".Tony met Deep Purple in the early 1970s, when the last recording of Ashton, Gardner and Dyke was a collaboration with keyboardist Jon Lord on the soundtrack for a b-movie called "The Last Rebel".In the meantime, Ashton had appeared on Jon Lord's first solo album "Gemini Suite" in 1971.