G-Force (album)
G-Force is a 1980 studio album by the namesake UK-American band led by Irish rock guitarist Gary Moore.
While touring America with Thin Lizzy in support of the band's album Black Rose: A Rock Legend, Moore suddenly quite 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
| 1. |
"You" | Gary Moore | Willie Dee & Moore |
4:11 |
| 2. |
"White Knuckles / Rockin' and Rollin'†" | Moore / Moore, Mark Nauseef | Instrumental / Dee |
5:10 |
| 3. |
"She's Got You" | Moore, Nauseef | Dee & Moore |
4:53 |
| 4. |
"I Look at You" | Moore | Dee |
6:02 |
| 1. |
"Because of Your Love" | Tony Newton, Dee, Duane Hitchings | Dee |
4:00 |
| 2. |
"You Kissed Me Sweetly" | Moore, Newton, Dee | Dee |
4:16 |
| 3. |
"Hot Gossip" | Moore | Moore |
3:34 |
| 4. |
"The Woman's in Love" | Moore | Moore & Dee |
3:53 |
| 5. |
"Dancin'" | Moore, Nauseef, Newton, Dee | Dee |
4:30 |
- ^† — 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
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