Gary Moore
After The War


Tracks:

1. After the War
2. Speak for Yourself
3. Livin' on Dreams
4. Led Clones
5. The Messiah Will Come Again
6. Running from the Storm
7. This Thing Called Love
8. Ready for Love
9. Blood of Emeralds

Line up:

Gary Moore - Guitars, Vocals
Neil Carter - Vocals, Keyboards
Bob Daisley - Bass (all tracks except 5)
Laurence Cottle - Bass
Don Airey - Keyboards (track 5, 6, 7)
Cozy Powell - Drums (track 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
Charlie Morgan - Drums
Simon Phillips - Drums
Chris Thompson - Backing Vocals, Violin
Ozzy Osbourne - Lead vocals (track 4), Backing Vocals
Andrew Eldritch - Backing Vocals
Sam Brown - Backing Vocals
Miriam Stockley - Backing Vocals

Record Label / Year of Release:

Virgin Records 1989

Notes:

Gary Moore (born Robert William Gary Moore, 4 April 1952) is a musician best recognized as a blues rock guitarist and singer from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

In a career dating back to the 1960s, Moore has played with artists including Phil Lynott and Brian Downey as early as his secondary school days, leading him to a membership twice with the Irish rock band Thin Lizzy. Moore has shared the stage with such blues and rock luminaries as B.B. King, Colosseum II, Greg Lake and Skid Row (not to be confused with the US metal band of the same name), as well as having a successful solo career.

After the War is an album by Irish rock guitarist Gary Moore, released in 1989. Like Moore's prior album Wild Frontier, this album contains elements of his celtic roots.

The track "Led Clones" with Ozzy Osbourne on lead vocals, pokes fun at bands such as Kingdom Come and Whitesnake who were quite popular at the time and were based on a Led Zeppelin type sound and image. Moore again pays tribute to the memory of his long time friend and colleague Phil Lynott with the song "Blood of Emeralds".

"After the War" is the last conventional hard rock album by Moore until Dark Days in Paradise (1997); the next album marked a departure into blues.

Re-issue in 2002 with bonus tracks:

Dunluce Pt. 1
Dunluce Pt. 2
Emerald" (B-side to "After the War")
Over the Hills and Far Away" (live)
Military Man" (live) (Lynott)
Wild Frontier" (live)