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Track listing

All songs by Gary Moore except as noted.
  1. "Murder in the Skies" (Gary Moore, Neil Carter) – 5:32
  2. "Shapes of Things to Come
    Shapes of Things
    "Shapes of Things" is a song written by Paul Samwell-Smith, Keith Relf, and Jim McCarty, originally recorded by The Yardbirds and released as a single in March 1966 by the Columbia Graphophone Company...

    " (Paul Samwell-Smith
    Paul Samwell-Smith
    Paul Samwell-Smith is best known as a founding member and bassist of the 1960s English band, The Yardbirds, a group that spawned such noteworthy musicians as Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page...

    , Keith Relf
    Keith Relf
    Keith William Relf , was a musician best known as the lead singer and harmonica player of The Yardbirds. After the Yardbirds broke up Relf formed the acoustic duo Together, with fellow Yardbird Jim McCarty, followed by Renaissance, which also featured his sister, singer Jane Relf, then hard rock...

    , Jim McCarty
    Jim McCarty
    Jim McCarty is an English musician, best known as the drummer for The Yardbirds and Renaissance.-Early life:...

    ) – 8:16
  3. "Victims of the Future" (Gary Moore, Neil Carter, Ian Paice, Neil Murray) – 8:28
  4. "Cold Hearted" – 10:37
  5. "End of the World" – 4:33
  6. "Back on the Streets" – 5:27
  7. "So Far Away" (Mo Foster
    Mo Foster
    Mo Foster is a British session musician, playing primarily jazz, jazz-fusion and rock bass guitar. He is also a music producer and songwriter/composer. In over 40 years as a musician Foster has played on and produced countless albums, singles, and film soundtracks...

    , Ray Russell)– 2:41
  8. "Empty Rooms" (Gary Moore, Neil Carter) – 8:28
  9. "Don't Take Me for a Loser" – 5:49
  10. "Rockin' and Rollin'" (Gary Moore, Mark Nauseef) – 6:38


Remastered edition of the album also includes a bonus track:
  1. "Parisienne Walkways" (Live at the Ulster Hall, December 17, 1984)


Tracks 1, 2, 3, and 9 recorded in Detroit, June 23, 1984.

Track 4 recorded at the Tokyo Budokan, February 29, 1984.

Tracks 5, 6, 7, and 8 recorded at Glasgow Apollo, February 14, 1984.

Track 10 recorded at Hammersmith Odeon, February 11, 1984.

Personnel

  • Gary Moore
    Gary Moore
    Robert William Gary Moore , better known simply as Gary Moore, was a Northern Irish musician from Belfast, best recognised as a blues rock guitarist and singer....

     - lead vocals, lead guitar
    Lead guitar
    Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...

  • Neil Carter
    Neil Carter (musician)
    Neil Carter is a musician who has worked in diverse genres throughout his 35 year career. Classically trained, he became a professional rock musician at the age of 17 and initally had his first 'mainstream' experience with singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan. He subsequently played guitar and...

     - keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    , rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...

    , backing vocals
  • Craig Gruber
    Craig Gruber
    Craig Gruber is an American rock bass player, best known as the original bassist in Rainbow. Along with the other members of Rainbow, except guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, he had played in the band Elf, consisting of vocalist Ronnie James Dio, keyboardist Mickey Lee Soule, drummer Gary Driscoll and...

     - bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , backing vocals
  • Ian Paice
    Ian Paice
    Ian Anderson Paice is an English musician, best known as the drummer of the English rock band Deep Purple. As of Jon Lord's departure in 2002, he is the only founding member of the band who never stopped performing with the group, and the only member to appear on every album the band has...

     - drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

  • Bobby Chouinard - drums on "Murder in the Skies" , "Shapes of Things to Come", "Victims of the Future" and "Don't Take Me for a Loser"
  • Jimmy Nail
    Jimmy Nail
    James Bradford "Jimmy" Nail is an English singer-songwriter, actor, musician, film producer, film score composer and television writer....

    - backing vocals on "Rockin' and Rollin'"
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