Live (Gary Moore album)

Live
Live album by
Released21 September 1983
Recorded5–6 November 1980
VenueThe Marquee, London, England
GenreHard rock, heavy metal
Length50:58
LabelJet
ProducerChris Tsangarides
Gary Moore chronology
Dirty Fingers
(1983)
Live
(1983)
Victims of the Future
(1984)
Singles from Live
  1. "Parisienne Walkways"
    Released: September 1983 (Japan)
Alternative cover
Alternative cover
2000 Sanctuary reissue
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal6/10[2]
Q Magazine[3]

Live is a live album by Gary Moore, recorded over two nights in 1980 at the Marquee Club in London. For the recording, Moore enlisted former Lone Star frontman, Kenny Driscoll to provide lead vocals (Driscoll's replacement in Lone Star, John Sloman, would later perform with Moore), Andy Pyle of The Kinks to play bass, former Black Oak Arkansas and Pat Travers drummer Tommy Aldridge, and Moore's former Colosseum II bandmate, keyboardist Don Airey, who would go on to contribute to many of Moore's later solo works.

The performance mainly showcases material from Moore's 1979 solo album Back on the Streets and his ill-fated G-Force project, with two songs being from Dirty Fingers, and the remaining track, "Dallas Warhead" being an original composition, which incorporates a drum solo from Aldridge.[3]

This album was first released in Japan in 1983 along with the Dirty Fingers album by Sony Records who bought the copyright from Jet Records. There have been several subsequent releases under the title Live at the Marquee licensed by Jet Records. This version appeared on CD in 1990 via Castle Communications.[3]

On 23 October 2000, Sanctuary Records released a remastered CD version, containing no additional material. Jeff Clark-Meads described it as capturing "every sweaty, heaving, raucous, ribald detail of [Moore's] gigs at the time".[3]

  1. ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Album review Live at the Marquee Club". AllMusic. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
  2. ^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 230. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
  3. ^ a b c d Clark-Meads, Jeff (5 March 1991). "Live at the Marquee review". Q Magazine. 55: 89.