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G Force (album)

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Released
  
30 May 1980

Artists
  
Gary Moore, G-Force

Label
  
Jet Records

Length
  
40:34

Release date
  
30 May 1980

Genres
  
Rock music, Hard rock

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Recorded
  
December 1979-January 1980; Cherokee Studios, Hollywood; Record Plant, Los Angeles, California

Producer
  
Gary Moore, Mark Nauseef, Willie Dee, Tony Newton

G-Force (1980)
  
Corridors of Power (1982)

Similar
  
Gary Moore albums, Hard rock albums

G-Force is a 1980 studio album by the namesake UK-American band led by Irish rock guitarist Gary Moore.

Contents

While touring America with Thin Lizzy in support of the band's album Black Rose: A Rock Legend, Moore suddenly quit the band and moved to Los Angeles, hoping to establish a solo rock presence. With the opportunity to tour America in support of Van Halen, Moore recruited his one-time Thin Lizzy bandmate, drummer Mark Nauseef (Elf, the Ian Gillan Band), and vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes (Trapeze, Deep Purple), dubbing the band "G-Force". Several months into rehearsals, Hughes left the band after an alcohol-fuelled altercation with Moore and was replaced with vocalist Willie Dee (born William Daffern; formerly of Captain Beyond and Pipedream) and Motown session bassist Tony Newton. The subsequent tour was a success, and the band went on to support Whitesnake on their 1980 Ready an' Willing tour. However, the project was short-lived, only producing the one eponymous album, which was re-mixed by Dennis Mackay. The album consisted of more conventional hard rock radio-oriented music than Moore's previous efforts. The band also recorded the Newton and Dee-penned song "Trust Your Lovin'", only released as a B-side to the 7" single "You".

Soon after the album was released, G-Force disbanded and Moore joined Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake & Palmer fame on a new venture, a collaboration that led to Lake's eponymous debut solo album.

Track listing

^† — Separated into two tracks on some issues of the album

Personnel

  • Gary Moore - guitars, lead & backing vocals, keyboards on "I Look at You" and "The Woman's in Love", string arrangements on "I Look at You", production
  • Tony Newton - bass guitar, string arrangements on "You Kissed Me Sweetly", production
  • Mark Nauseef - drums, percussion, production
  • Willie Dee - lead & backing vocals, production

    • Additional musicians

  • Joachim Kuhn - keyboards
  • Tom Scott - saxophone on "The Woman's in Love", string arrangements on "I Look at You" and "You Kissed Me Sweetly"
  • Karat Faye - engineering
  • Moshe Brakha - photography

    • Songs

    1You4:13
    2White Knuckles / Rockin' & Rollin'5:10
    3She's Got You4:58

    References

    G-Force (album) Wikipedia
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