G-Force (album)

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

G-Force
Studio album by G-Force
Released	30 May 1980
Recorded	December 1979 - January 1980
Studio	Cherokee Studios, Hollywood and Record Plant, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Pop rock, hard rock
Length	40:34
Label	Jet
Producer	Gary Moore, Mark Nauseef, Willie Dee, Tony Newton
Gary Moore chronology
Back on the Streets (1978) G-Force (1980) Corridors of Power (1982)
Singles from G-Force
"Hot Gossip" Released: 23 May 1980 "You" Released: Jul 1980 "White Knuckles" / "Rockin' and Rollin'" Released: 28 Nov 1980

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	7/10[2]

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 (former member of The Tony Williams New Lifetime). 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

Side 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
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

Side 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
5.	"Because of Your Love"	Tony Newton, Dee, Duane Hitchings	Dee	4:00
6.	"You Kissed Me Sweetly"	Moore, Newton, Dee	Dee	4:16
7.	"Hot Gossip"	Moore	Moore	3:34
8.	"The Woman's in Love"	Moore	Moore & Dee	3:53
9.	"Dancin'"	Moore, Nauseef, Newton, Dee	Dee	4:30

^† — 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
• Gary Moore – guitars, lead and backing vocals, keyboards and string arrangements on tracks 4 and 8, production
• Tony Newton – bass guitar, string arrangements on track 6, production
• Mark Nauseef – drums, percussion, percussion syntesiszer, production

Additional musicians

• Joachim Kuhn – additional keyboards
• Tom Scott – saxophone on track 8, string arrangements on track 4 and 6
• Thee Ox – marimba

Production

• Mack, Mark Sackett, Tom La Tondre – engineers
• Dennis Mackay – remixing on tracks 1-3, 5, 7 and 9
• Moshe Brakha – photography

References

1. Lovén, Lars. "G-Force - Gary Moore & G-Force | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 19 November 2011.
2. Popoff, Martin (November 1, 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 130. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.