Run For Cover  by Gary Moore

After over a decade of professional involvement with rock music, Gary Moore achieved commercial success and attracted the interest of a wider audience with his fifth solo album, "Run For Cover".

"Run For Cover" contains two of the biggest hits of Irishman Gary Moore: the power ballad "Empty Rooms", which was also on his previous album in a different version, and "Out In The Fields", which was essentially a songwriting and performance duet between Moore and his friend Phil Lynott a few months before Lynott died. The album features Glenn Hughes (formerly of Deep Purple, among others) on vocals in several songs. The sound of "Run For Cover" is one of the most characteristic hard rock sounds of the mid-'80s. Songs like "Once In A Lifetime" or "Run For Cover" confirm this from the very first listen.

Gary Moore's success was purely at a European level. The U.S.A. continued to turn its back on him, as evidenced by his No. 146 position on the Billboard. The Irishman would have to wait another five years for the doors of the United States to open for him as well.