This ended up being the final ‘rock’ album Gary released, and at least it was a good one to go out on. It has plenty of great songs on it, and proved he still had the knack from writing and recording such material.
After The War was actually written to use Phil Lynott as he had for an earlier hit, Out In The Fields. Lynott had died not long before this. The song Led Clones, which had Ozzy Osbourne on vocals, was written in protest against the number of bands coming out and writing songs with almost identical riffs to Led Zeppelin (Kingdom Come – you know he meant you!). So, the album has great songs, and also lyrics that touched on issues of the day.
It’s a great shame (to me) that Gary stopped doing rock after this album. In fact, he even went as far as to distance himself from it in future years. Still – he left us with some great tunes.
Rating : This album was a pearler, and contains the best of Gary Moore as singer, songwriter and guitarist. 4/5.
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