| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [1] |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 7/10[2] |
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 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
| 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 |
| 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
- ^ Lovén, Lars. "G-Force - Gary Moore & G-Force | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 19 November 2011.
- ^ 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.