page_title: Gary Moore
section_title: Solo career
hierarchical_section_title: Gary Moore / Career / Solo career
caption_attribution_description: English: Gary Moore from concert tour in 2010 Русский: Гэри Мур - концертный тур по России в 2010 г.
context_page_description: Robert William Gary Moore was a Northern Irish musician and singer-songwriter. Over the course of his career, Moore played in various groups and performed many different styles of music, including blues, heavy metal, hard rock and jazz fusion.
  Moore began his career in the late 1960s when he joined Skid Row, with whom he released two albums. After Moore left the group, he joined Thin Lizzy, which featured his former Skid Row bandmate and frequent collaborator Phil Lynott. Moore began his solo career in the 1970s, achieving his first major success with 1978's "Parisienne Walkways", which is considered his signature song. During the 1980s, Moore transitioned into playing hard rock and heavy metal with varying degrees of success around the world. By the decade's end, however, he had grown tired of his own music and decided to return to his roots with 1990's Still Got the Blues, which became the most successful album of his career. Moore continued to release new music consistently throughout the rest of his career, as well as collaborate with other artists from time to time. Moore died on 6 February 2011 from a heart attack while on vacation in Spain.
context_section_description: In 1973, Moore released the album Grinding Stone, which was credited to The Gary Moore Band. His first proper solo album Back on the Streets was released in 1978 and spawned the hit single "Parisienne Walkways", which saw him collaborating with Phil Lynott once again. The song reached number eight on the UK Singles Chart and is considered Moore's signature song. After leaving Thin Lizzy in 1979, Moore relocated to Los Angeles where he signed a new recording contract with Jet Records. He recorded the album Dirty Fingers, which was shelved in favor of the G-Force album, which came out in 1980. Dirt Fingers didn't see a proper release until 1984.
  After moving to London and signing a new recording contract with Virgin, Moore released his second solo album Corridors of Power in 1982. While not a major success, it was the first album to feature Moore on lead vocals throughout, as well as his first solo release to crack the Billboard 200 chart. In 1983, Moore released the album Victims of the Future, which marked a stylistic change in Moore's music towards hard rock and heavy metal. The album also saw the addition of keyboardist Neil Carter to Moore's backing band, who would continue to push Moore towards heavier music.
  In 1985, Moore released his fifth solo album Run for Cover, which saw him collaborating with Phil Lynott yet again. The duo performed the hit single "Out in the Fields", which reached the top five in both Ireland and the UK. Its parent album also proved to be a success, going gold in Sweden and silver in the UK. Following Lynott's death in January 1986, Moore dedicated his next album to his memory. Released in 1987, Wild Frontier blended Celtic folk music with blues and rock, which proved to be a successful combination, with the record going platinum in Sweden, gold in Finland and Norway, as well as silver in the UK. The album also spawned the hit single "Over the Hills and Far Away", which charted in nine countries. Wild Frontier was followed up by After the War in 1989. Despite going gold in Germany and Sweden, as well as silver in the UK, Moore had grown tired of his own music. Moore told former Thin Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell that after listening to some of his own albums, he thought they were "the biggest load of fucking shite" he had ever heard. In his own words, Moore had lost his "musical self‑respect".
  In 1990, Moore released the album Still Got the Blues, which saw him returning to his blues roots. The idea had come up during the supporting tour for After the War, when bassist Bob Daisley jokingly suggested to Moore that he do a blues album after hearing him play by himself in the dressing room. Still Got the Blues proved to be the most successful album of Moore's career, selling over three million copies worldwide. The album's title track also became the only single of Moore's solo career to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, where it reached number 97 in February 1991. Still Got the Blues was followed up by 1992's After Hours, which went platinum in Sweden and gold in the UK. The record also became Moore's highest charting album in the UK where it reached number four. In 1995, Moore released Blues for Greeny, a tribute album to his friend and mentor Peter Green. After experimenting with other styles of music on Dark Days in Paradise (1997) and A Different Beat (1999), Moore once again returned to his blues roots with 2001's Back to the Blues. He continued to release new music throughout the 2000s, with his seventeenth and final studio album Bad for You Baby being released in 2008. Prior to his death, Moore was working on a new rock album that was left unfinished. Some of the songs would later appear on the live album Live at Montreux 2010.
caption: Moore performing in 2010.
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