Stage Struck (album) explained

Stage Struck
Type:	live
Artist:	Rory Gallagher
Cover:	Stagestruck.jpg
Released:	October 1980
Recorded:	November 1979 – July 1980
Length:	51:46
Label:	Chrysalis
Producer:	Rory Gallagher
Prev Title:	Top Priority
Prev Year:	1979
Next Title:	Jinx
Next Year:	1982

Stage Struck is the eleventh album and the third live album by Irish singer/guitarist Rory Gallagher. Released in 1980, it documents his world tour in support of his 1979 album Top Priority. Accordingly, it features many songs from that album, but it also includes songs from his previous albums. The album sees Gallagher taking a faster-paced, more hard rock sound than on his previous blues-dominated live albums. Originally released with eight tracks, Stage Struck was augmented with two bonus tracks ("Bad Penny" and "Keychain") when reissued in 1999, four years after Gallagher's death, by his younger brother and manager, Dónal Gallagher.

Reception

In 2005, Stage Struck was ranked number 419 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.^[1]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Rory Gallagher.

Side one

"Shin Kicker" [from ''[[Photo-Finish]]] – 3:58
"Wayward Child" [from ''[[Top Priority]]] – 4:32
"Brute Force and Ignorance" [from ''Photo-Finish''] – 4:32
"Moonchild" [from ''[[Calling Card]]] – 6:06

Side two

"Follow Me" [from ''Top Priority''] – 5:56
"Bought and Sold" [from ''[[Against the Grain (Rory Gallagher album)|Against the Grain]]] – 4:39
"The Last of the Independents" [from ''Photo-Finish''] – 5:39
"Shadow Play" [from ''Photo-Finish''] – 5:08

CD bonus track

"Bad Penny" [from ''Top Priority''] – 6:39 (*)
"Keychain" [from ''Top Priority''] – 5:03 (*)

Personnel

Rory Gallagher – guitar, harmonica, vocals
Gerry McAvoy – bass
Ted McKenna – drums

Production details

Rory Gallagher – producer
Mark Jessett – art direction

External links

Notes and References

Book: Best of Rock & Metal - Die 500 stärksten Scheiben aller Zeiten. 2005. Rock Hard. de. 3-89880-517-4. 42.