Ordinary Man (Christy Moore album)

Ordinary Man
Studio album by
Released1985
GenreIrish folk
LabelWalker Music UK
ProducerDónal Lunny
Christy Moore chronology
Ride On
(1984)
Ordinary Man
(1985)
The Spirit of Freedom
(1986)

Ordinary Man is the tenth studio album by Irish folk artist Christy Moore. It features songs like "Ordinary Man", "St. Brendan's Voyage" and "Another Song is Born". The album featured songs by Peter Hames, Johnny Mulhearn, Hugh McDonald, Colm Gallagher and Floyd Red Crow Westerman; as well as some backing vocals by Enya on "Quiet Desperation", "Sweet Music Roll On" and "The Diamondtina [sic] Drover" and some fine uilleann pipes work by Liam O'Flynn. The original release of the album featured the song "They Never Came Home" which Moore wrote for the victims and families of the Stardust fire. The song was quickly removed from the album because the lyrics were found to be libelous.