Live at Isstadion Stockholm: Wild Frontier Tour

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Live at Isstadion Stockholm:
Wild Frontier Tour
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Released1987
Recorded25 April 1987
Venue Isstadion, Stockholm, Sweden
Genre Hard Rock, Heavy metal
Length70:00
Label Virgin
Director Phil Tuckett
Producer Steve Barnett, NFL Films
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Live at Isstadion Stockholm: Wild Frontier Tour is a 1987 live video by hard rock guitarist Gary Moore, recorded live on 25 April 1987 at Johanneshovs isstadion, Stockholm, Sweden, during the tour in support of the album Wild Frontier . The sound track was recorded and mixed by Nigel Walker. The tour had the valuable contribution of drummer Eric Singer, who recently had left Black Sabbath.

Contents

Tracks

  1. "Over the Hills and Far Away" (Gary Moore)
  2. "Thunder Rising" (Moore, Neil Carter)
  3. "Wild Frontier" (Moore)
  4. "Military Man" (Phil Lynott)
  5. "Empty Rooms" (Moore, Carter)
  6. "All Messed Up" (Moore, Carter)
  7. "Out in the Fields" (Moore)
  8. "Rockin' Every Night" (Moore, Paice)
  9. "The Loner" (Max Middleton, Moore)

Personnel

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References

  1. "Gary Moore - Live at Isstadion Stockholm". AllMusic . All Media Network . Retrieved 20 June 2018.