Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland back in 1952, Gary Moore started his musical career in 1968, primarily as a guitarist and then also becoming a singer. He was part of many bands until he finally achieved fame as the guitar player for Thin Lizzy. He was a member of the Irish band from 1974 to 1977 and 1978 to 1979.
His first solo record was released in 1978 but it was with records like “Wild Frontier” (1987) and “Still Got The Blues” (1990) that he really went to another level of success, changing his style a little bit and becoming really a bluesman.
He sadly passed away too soon back in 2011 at the age of 58 but a few years before, in 2007, in an interview with All Out Guitar he revealed his favorite songs of his career.
Gary Moore said about his favorite songs of his career:
“I tend to like the stuff more after 1990. I like some of the rock stuff, the Celtic influence rock stuff like ‘Over the Hills and Far Away’ from ‘Wild Frontier’, and ‘Blood of Emeralds’ from ‘After the War’. ‘Out in the Fields’ I quite liked. So I like the ones where the lyrics were about something, as opposed to the usual rock stuff.”
“I like ‘Still Got the Blues’ very much, ‘Parisienne Walkways’ and ‘Walking By Myself’, ‘Pretty Woman’. And I like a lot of the new stuff off of this record because it has given me a chance to change a lot of the set, which is great.”
“Some of the songs were getting stale. We’ve been playing five or six of the new songs already and people really like them. It’s funny how much they like the ones like ‘I Had A Dream’ and ‘Trouble At Home’. Because the album’s not even out obviously,” Gary Moore said.
The final Gary Moore (Which was released when he was still alive) was “Bad For You Baby”, released in 2008. But in 2021 a posthumous record “How Blue Can You Get” was released.
Besides being a member of Thin Lizzy he also was part of the supergroup BBM, which was formed alongside the Cream members Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce.