Photo-Finish

"Photo-Finish" Released 1 October 1978 is the seventh studio album by Irish musician Rory Gallagher . It marked a turning point in Gallagher's career. Most of the songs on Photo-Finish were initially recorded on what was to be an earlier album called Torch but Gallagher was unhappy with the recordings. He fired the drummer and keyboardist from his current band and replaced only the drummer changing the band to a power trio as his original bands had been. The album name reflects the fact that the finished product was delivered to the record company just at the deadline. The album came after a two year period without an album release, due to Gallagher's decision to scrap the earlier version of the album and the need to recover from an accident to his thumb.