After the War by Gary Moore

After the War, Gary Moore's seventh solo studio album, came out on Virgin on 25 January 1989, cut at Townhouse Studios with Peter Collins producing, and it keeps the Northern Irish guitarist clad in heavy metal armour. As on Wild Frontier before it, though, the thunder is shot through with Celtic colour: the instrumental "Dunluce" takes its name from Dunluce Castle back home, and "Blood of Emeralds" is one more salute to his long-time friend and old Thin Lizzy comrade Phil Lynott.

Cozy Powell pounds the drums, the Sisters of Mercy's Andrew Eldritch lurks in the backing vocals on three tracks, and Ozzy Osbourne turns up to share lead vocals on "Led Clones", a gleeful jab at the Led Zeppelin copyists of the day, Kingdom Come among them. The next year Moore went back to the blues with Still Got the Blues, and it became his biggest album.

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