“It is with deep sorrow and regret, that we have to announce that Gary Moore passed away while on holiday in Spain last night.”
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Gary Moore
Robert William Gary Moore was a Northern Irish musician. Over the course of his career, he played in various groups and performed a range of music, including blues, blues rock, hard rock, heavy metal, and jazz fusion.
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entertainment · Northern Irish musician (1952–2011) · guitarist · songwriter · record producer · singer · recording artist · composer · musician · also Gary Moore, Moore
Born 4 April 1952 · Died 6 February 2011 · Q185147
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It was an amazing experience just to hear a guitarist walk on stage and plug into this amplifier, which I thought was a pile of shit, and get this incredible sound. He was absolutely fantastic, everything about him was so graceful.
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2026· 6 entries
“It was an amazing experience just to hear a guitarist walk on stage and plug into this amplifier, which I thought was a pile of shit, and get this incredible sound. He was absolutely fantastic, everything about him was so graceful.”
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“When you get into the habit of leaving a space, you become a much better player for it. If you”
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“but maybe it was wrong the way I did it. I could”
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Page Six: Country singer Justin Moore reveals cancer scare that left him with ‘fat neck’ after fan concern
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Public attention spiked: 5,514 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4× the usual 1,387, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 1 entry
Released album “Live from Baloise Session”.
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2023· 1 entry
Released album “The Sanctuary Years 1999–2004”.
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2021· 1 entry
Released album “How Blue Can You Get”.
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2020· 3 entries
Released album “Live From London”.
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Released album “Parisienne Walkways: The Collection”.
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Was named on a list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" by Total Guitar
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2019· 1 entry
Saying, "There was never any money exchange
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2018· 2 entries
Bob Daisley released the album Moore Blues for Gary – A Tribute to Gary Moore, which featured the likes of Glenn Hughes, Steve Lukather, Steve Morse, Joe Lynn Turner and Ricky Warwick
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Moore was voted number 15 on Louder's list of "The 50 Best Guitarists of All Time"
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2017· 2 entries
Fender Custom Shop released a limited edition replica of the guitar
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Released album “Blues and Beyond”.
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2016· 1 entry
“The next wave of fascists will not come with cattle cars and concentration camps, but they'll come with a smiley face and maybe a TV show ... That’s how the 21st-century fascists will essentially take over.”
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2013· 2 entries
Gibson announced a new Gary Moore Signature Les Paul, modelled after the "Greeny" guitar
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Released album “Gold”.
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2012· 7 entries
Released album “Triple Best Of”.
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Released album “Legacy”.
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Released album “Blues for Jimi”.
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Released album “5 Album Set”.
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Released album “All the Best”.
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Released album “Alle 40 goed: Gary Moore”.
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An exhibition celebrating the life and work of Moore was held at the Oh Yeah Music Centre in Belfast
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2011· 7 entries
Released album “Live at Montreux 2010”.
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Released ep “A Spoonful of Bruce, Baker & Moore”.
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The Guardian: Gary Moore obituary
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The Guardian: Gary Moore: the guitarist as gunslinger
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The Guardian: Gary Moore, former Thin Lizzy guitarist, dies aged 58
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Died 2011-02-06.
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Released album “Live In Stockholm 1987”.
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2010· 3 entries
Released album “White Knuckles”.
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Released album “Guitar Mindtrip”.
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Released album “Gold of the Blues”.
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “Essential Montreux”.
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Released album “The Definitive Montreux Collection: Live at Montreux”.
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2008· 2 entries
Released album “Bad for You Baby”.
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Released album “Platinum”.
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “Close as You Get”.
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2006· 3 entries
Released album “The Platinum Collection”.
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Released album “Old New Ballads Blues”.
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Released album “One Night in Dublin: A Tribute to Phil Lynott”.
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “Power of the Blues”.
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2003· 5 entries
Released album “Live at Monsters of Rock”.
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Released album “Parisienne Walkways: The Blues Collection”.
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Released album “Back on the Streets: The Rock Collection”.
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Released album “The Rock Collection”.
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Released album “The Best”.
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2002· 5 entries
Released album “The Best of the Blues”.
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Moore collaborated with former Skunk Anansie bassist Cass Lewis and Primal Scream drummer Darrin Mooney in Scars, which released one album
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Released album “Scars”.
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Released album “Have Some Moore: The Best Of”.
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Released album “Beer, Beards and Moore”.
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Blues & Ballads”.
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1999· 3 entries
Released album “A Different Beat”.
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Released album “Dancin’”.
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Released album “Blood of Emeralds - The Very Best of Part 2”.
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1998· 2 entries
Released album “Out in the Fields: The Very Best of Gary Moore”.
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Released album “The Collection”.
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1997· 3 entries
Released album “Looking at You”.
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Released album “Desperado”.
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Released album “Dark Days in Paradise”.
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1996· 3 entries
Released album “Streets and Walkways”.
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Released album “Blues For Greeny Live”.
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Released album “Ballads & Blues 2”.
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1995· 3 entries
Released album “Blues for Greeny”.
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Released album “Parisienne Walkways”.
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Moore released Blues for Greeny, a tribute album to his friend and mentor Peter Green
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1994· 3 entries
Released album “Ballads & Blues 1982–1994”.
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Released album “CD/Telefonkarten Edition - Limited Edition Vol. 2”.
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Released album “Walkways”.
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1993· 3 entries
Released album “Blues Alive”.
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Released album “A Portrait of Gary Moore”.
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Released album “Live Blues”.
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1992· 7 entries
Released album “After Hours”.
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Released album “Blues From A Gun”.
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Released album “A Retrospective / Spanish Guitar”.
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Released album “Double Collection: Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways”.
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Released album “Blues and Moore”.
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Released album “We Want Moore Jagger: Live 1992”.
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Released album “Wild Frontier: Holland-Tour 1987”.
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1991· 3 entries
Released album “The Early Years”.
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Released album “Köln 1977 (Live in Europe)”.
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Released album “Spotlight”.
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1990· 6 entries
Released album “Still Got the Blues”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Back to the Blues”.
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Released album “Castle Masters Collection”.
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Returned to his roots with Still Got the Blues, which became his most successful album
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Moore released the album Still Got the Blues, a return to his blues roots and collaborating with Albert King, Albert Collins and George Harrison
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1989· 2 entries
Released album “13 Rock Hard Hits”.
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Released album “Milestones”.
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1988· 3 entries
Released album “And Then the Man Said to His Guitar…”.
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Released album “After the War”.
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Released album “Hot & Heavy Metal”.
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1987· 3 entries
Released album “Wild Frontier”.
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Released album “Wild Frontier Tour: Live at Isstadion Stockholm”.
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Moore collaborated on the UK charity record "Let It Be", which was released under the group name Ferry Aid
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1985· 5 entries
Moore released his fifth solo album Run for Cover, which featured guest vocals by Phil Lynott and Glenn Hughes
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Released album “Emerald Aisles. Live In Ireland”.
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Moore was married to his first wife Kerry from 1985 to 1993.
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Released album “Run for Cover”.
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Released album “The Best of Gary Moore: Nuclear Attack”.
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1984· 3 entries
Moore released the album Victims of the Future, which marked another musical change, this time towards hard rock and heavy metal
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Released album “We Want Moore!”.
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Released album “Dirty Fingers”.
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1983· 5 entries
Followed by an international release the next year
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With Moore making guest appearances on the band's farewell tour
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Released album “Live at the Marquee”.
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Released album “Rockin’ Every Night: Live in Japan”.
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Released album “Victims of the Future”.
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1982· 2 entries
Moore was considered for the guitarist position in Whitesnake, but vocalist David Coverdale opted not to recruit Moore as the band was in the process of severing ties with their management
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Released album “Corridors of Power”.
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “G‐Force”.
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1979· 2 entries
Moore formed the band G-Force with Glenn Hughes and Mark Nauseef
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Moore moved to Los Angeles where he signed a new recording contract with Jet Records, a British label
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “Back on the Streets”.
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1977· 1 entry
Moore rejoined Thin Lizzy for a tour of the United States after guitarist Brian Robertson injured his hand in a bar fight
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1975· 1 entry
Moore joined progressive jazz fusion group Colosseum II, which was formed after the demise of bandleader Jon Hiseman's previous band Colosseum
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1973· 1 entry
Moore released the album Grinding Stone, which was credited to The Gary Moore Band
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1971· 1 entry
And tours supporting The Allman Brothers Band and Mountain amongst others, Moore decided to leave the band
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1970· 1 entry
Skid Row signed a recording contract with CBS Records International and released their debut album Skid, which reached number 30 on the UK Albums Chart
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1968· 1 entry
Just as The Troubles were beginning in Northern Ireland
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1952· 1 entry
Born 1952-04-04.
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