studio album
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by the namesake British-American band led by Irish
rock
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Gary Moore
Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 19526 February 2011) was a Northern Irish musician. Over the course of his career he played in various groups and performed a range of music including blues, blues rock, hard rock, heavy metal, and jazz ...
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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
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), 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
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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
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: — Separated into two tracks on some issues of the album
Personnel
;G–Force
* Willie Dee – lead and backing vocals, bass, keyboards, Korg bass synthesizer, production
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Gary Moore
Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 19526 February 2011) was a Northern Irish musician. Over the course of his career he played in various groups and performed a range of music including blues, blues rock, hard rock, heavy metal, and jazz ...
– guitars, lead and backing vocals, keyboards and string arrangements (on tracks 4 and 8), production
* Tony Newton (musician), Tony Newton – bass, string arrangements (on track 6), production
*
Mark Nauseef
Mark Nauseef (born June 11, 1953), in Cortland, New York, is a drummer and percussionist who has enjoyed a varied career, ranging from rock music during the 1970s with his time as a member of the Ian Gillan Band and, temporarily with Thin Li ...
– drums, percussion, percussion synthesizer, production
;Additional personnel
* Joachim Kuhn – additional keyboards
* Tom Scott – saxophone (on track 8), string arrangements (on track 4 and 6)
* Thee Ox – marimba
;Technicial personnel
* Mack, Mark Sackett and Tom La Tondre – engineers
* Dennis Mackay – remixing (on tracks 1-3, 5, 7 and 9)
* Moshe Brakha – photography