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Robert William Gary Moore was born in Belfast on 4 April 1952, [2] [3] the son of Winnie, a housewife, and Robert Moore, a promoter who ran the Queen's Hall ballroom in Holywood. [2] [3] [4] He grew up near Belfast's Stormont Estate with four siblings. [3] He credited his father for getting him started in music. When Moore was six years old, his father invited him onstage to sing " Sugartime" with a showband at an event he had organised, which first sparked his interest in music. His father bought him his first guitar, a second-hand Framus acoustic, when Moore was 10 years old. [3] [5] [6] Though left-handed, he learned to play the instrument right-handed. [5] Not long after, he formed his first band, The Beat Boys, who mainly performed Beatles songs. [3] [5] He later joined Platform Three and The Method, amongst others. [7] Around this time, he befriended guitarist Rory Gallagher, who often performed at the same venues as him. [8] He left Belfast for Dublin in 1968 just as The Troubles were starting in Northern Ireland. A year later, his parents separated. [2] [4] Career [ edit ] Skid Row [ edit ] It would have been in August 1979, my twenty-eighth birthday, and Sharon had a party for me at La Dome on Sunset Boulevard. I got really drunk that night, fell into the cake trolley and dislocated my shoulder. Sharon was laughing her arse off, and I got really upset and angry and apparently I said I was leaving the band – which I don’t remember saying, by the way. Metallica’s Kirk Hammett said: “Gary Moore is definitely in my list of top five guitar influences, right up there with Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Michael Schenker. He just blew me away from the first time I heard him.” Rest in Peace Gary Moore". Dougaldrich.com. 1 February 2011. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011 . Retrieved 6 July 2011.Mead, David (29 June 2020). "How Gary Moore came to own Peter Green's iconic Les Paul, Greeny". Guitar World . Retrieved 31 August 2020. O'Neill, Eamon. "David Coverdale Whitesnake Eonmusic Interview October 2020 Part 2". Eonmusic . Retrieved 25 November 2020. In 1975, Moore joined progressive jazz fusion group Colosseum II, which was formed after the demise of bandleader Jon Hiseman's previous band Colosseum. Moore recorded three albums with the group, before leaving to join Thin Lizzy in 1978. [14] [62] While living in Los Angeles in 1979, Moore formed the band G-Force with Glenn Hughes and Mark Nauseef. [31] [63] However, Hughes was soon fired due to his problems with substance abuse. The band then recruited singer Willie Dee and bassist Tony Newton. [64] [65] At the same time, Moore was also being courted to join Ozzy Osbourne's band. He declined, but G-Force helped Osbourne audition other musicians for his band. [31] [58] G-Force released their self-titled debut album in 1980, and toured opening for Whitesnake. Before the end of the year, however, the band broke up. [63] [65] Moore was then recruited to play guitar in Greg Lake's solo band. They recorded two studio albums together, 1981's Greg Lake and 1983's Manoeuvres, [14] as well as the live album King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Greg Lake in Concert, which was released in 1995. [66] In 1982, Moore was considered for the guitarist position in Whitesnake, but vocalist David Coverdale opted not to recruit Moore as the band were in the process of severing ties with their management. [67] In 1987, Moore collaborated on the UK charity record " Let It Be", which was released under the group name Ferry Aid. [59] a b c "Gary Moore: When I'm playing I get totally lost in it". Belfast Telegraph. 8 February 2011 . Retrieved 7 July 2020.

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Former Thin Lizzy guitarist Moore dies". The Irish Times. 6 February 2011 . Retrieved 6 February 2011. Mr. Big Guitarist Paul Gilbert – "These Are The 10 Guitarists That Blew My Mind..." ". BraveWords. 1 May 2019 . Retrieved 7 July 2020.The upshot was Still Got the Blues (1990), which featured seasoned bluesmen Albert Collins and Albert King as well as George Harrison. It became regarded as perhaps Moore's most artistically successful solo effort. In 1992 he released a follow-up, After Hours, which again featured Collins as well as a cameo appearance by BB King on Since I Met You Baby. The other appeal of Gary for Jet was the success of Parisienne Walkways, which, while it did nothing in the States, showed that Gary had the potential to compose the sort of power ballad that brought significant chart success for bands like Foreigner and Styx, heralding so-called pop metal as another fashionable genre on the US market for the next decade. Fielder, Hugh (4 November 2017). "The Gary Moore Band – Grinding Stone album review". Louder . Retrieved 31 August 2020. Llewellyn, Sian (2 March 2007). "Gary Moore: "I jumped on the Blues bandwagon? I was the bandwagon!" ". Louder . Retrieved 1 July 2020. Hunter, Dave (2 August 2018). "Legends of the Les Paul: Gary Moore". Gibson . Retrieved 7 July 2020.

Bosso, Joe (3 November 2021). "John Petrucci: "When you solo, you're the vocalist in the band... In that way, I've always been influenced by guys like David Gilmour, Neal Schon and Gary Moore" ". Guitar World . Retrieved 12 December 2021.

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a b c d e f g h i j Sharken, Lisa. "Gary Moore: Still Got the Blues – Again!". Vintage Guitar Magazine . Retrieved 7 July 2020. Gary later described the band live as “a disaster”, but that had to be more a reflection of his personal problem with Willie Dee, because live bootleg recordings belie any assertion that this band could not deliver the goods. Stripped of the LA studio pop gloss, they were a ferocious live act, and gave Whitesnake a run for their money. Sweeney, Ken (24 February 2011). "Legendary guitarist Gary Moore laid to rest in moving ceremony". Independent.ie . Retrieved 24 August 2020. a b c d e f g Shapiro, Harry (1 August 2016). "Gary Moore: the story of Still Got The Blues". Louder . Retrieved 7 July 2020. The band didn’t so much end as fizzle out. Tony says they were all on a weekly wage, “and it just stopped. But nobody got a call. I eventually got in touch with Don Arden, had a meeting and he said he didn’t know what he was going to do with Gary.”