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[[File:IOU.jpg|right|200px]]"I.O.U." is an 1982 album by Allan's own Holdsworth, and his official debut as a leader. The genesis of the album is probably Allan's meeting with Gary Husband in 1979. After several lineup changes, the band entered a studio on a barge on the Thames, and recorded the album very quickly, presumably in 1981. The albums features some old tunes and ideas reworked by Allan from the "Velvet Darkness", "Gazeuse" and "The Things You See" albums, as well as never before recorded material. The lineup is [[Gary Husband]] on drums, [[Paul Carmichael]] on bass and [[Paul Williams]] on vocals. Allan sold all of his guitars to pay for the mixing. Allan and the band then moved to California in early 1982, where they self-released the album, and sold it by mail order and at gigs. The album would not get regular distribution until 1985.