Gary Moore discography

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Gary Moore discography
Gary Moore - Manchester Apollo - 1985.jpg
Studio albums 21
Live albums 8
Compilation albums 12
Singles 53

This is a discography of the rock guitarist Gary Moore.

Albums

Studio albums

Year Title Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[1][2]
AUS
[3]
AUT
[4]
FIN
[5][6]
GER
[7]
NZ
[8]
NOR
[9]
SWE
[10]
SWI
[11]
US
[12]
1973

Grinding Stone

  • The Gary Moore Band
  • Released: 1973
  • Label: CBS
1978

Back on the Streets

  • Released: 30 September 1978
  • Label: MCA
70
1980

G-Force

  • G-Force
  • Released: 30 May 1980
  • Label: JVC Japan
1982

Corridors of Power

  • Released: 1982
  • Label: Virgin
30 149
1983

Dirty Fingers

  • Recorded in 1981
  • Released: 1983 (Japan) / 1984 (Europe)
  • Label: Jet

Victims of the Future

  • Released: December 1983
  • Label: Virgin
12 7 53 15 172
1985

Run for Cover

  • Released: 2 September 1985
  • Label: Virgin
12 73 11 27 23 7 6 146
1987

Wild Frontier

  • Released: 2 March 1987
  • Label: Virgin
8 41 16 1 9 11 1 2 7 139
1989

After the War

  • Released: 25 January 1989
  • Label: Virgin
23 62 3 2 14 3 3 3 114
1990
Still Got the Blues

  • Released: 21 March 1990
  • Label: Virgin
  • Format: LP, CD


13 5 13 1 4 14 2 1 3 83
1992

After Hours

  • Released: 9 March 1992
  • Label: Virgin
4 8 6 8 2 9 2 1 1 145
1994

Around the Next Dream

9 28 14 20 17 13 25

1995

Blues for Greeny

  • Released: 31 May 1995
  • Label: Virgin
14 59 14 33 31 40 26
[A]
1997

Dark Days in Paradise

  • Released: 2 June 1997
  • Label: Virgin
43 19 27 32 27 23 22
1999

A Different Beat

133 60
2001

Back to the Blues

53 68 36 40 22 49
[B]
2002

Scars

90 48 31
2004

Power of the Blues

  • Released: 22 June 2004
  • Label: Sanctuary
158 65 51
[C]
2006

Old New Ballads Blues

  • Released: 2 May 2006
  • Label: Eagle
148 91
[D]
2007

Close As You Get

  • Released: 21 May 2007
  • Label: Eagle
102 66 95
[E]
2008

Bad for You Baby

  • Released: 22 September 2008
  • Label: Eagle
101 69 71
[F]
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.
Notes

Live albums

Year Title Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK

[1][2]

AUS

[3]

AUT

[4]

FIN

[5][6]

GER

[7]

NZ

[8]

NOR

[9]

SWE

[10]

SWI

[11]

US

[12]

1980 Live at the Marquee
  • Recorded: 5-6 November 1980
  • Released: 21 September 1983
  • Label: Jet
1983 Rockin' Every Night – Live in Japan
  • Released: 21 May 1983
  • Label: Virgin
99 91 39
1984 We Want Moore!
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: Virgin
32 21 52 21
1993 Blues Alive
  • Recorded: 1992
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: Virgin
8 73 14 31 18 40 14
2003 Live at Monsters of Rock
  • Released: 30 September 2003
  • Label: Sanctuary
2007 Blues for Jimi
  • Recorded: 25 October 2007
  • Release date: 24 September 2012
  • Label: Eagle
80 56 36
2007 Live at Bush Hall (2007) 128
2010 Live at Montreux 2010
  • Released: 19 September 2011
  • Label: Eagle
41
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.

Compilation albums

Year Title Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[1][2]
AUS
[3]
AUT
[4]
FIN
[5][6]
GER
[7]
NZ
[8]
NOR
[9]
SWE
[10]
SWI
[11]
US
[12]
1982 Gary Moore
  • Japan-only release
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: MCA
1988 And Then the Man Said to His Guitar..
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Accord
32 - - -
1994 Ballads & Blues 1982–1994
  • Released: 17 November 1994
  • Label: Virgin
33 4 30 26 6 10 15
[G]
1996 Streets & Walkways: The Best of Gary Moore & Colosseum II
  • Released: December 1996
  • Label: Music Club
1998 Out in the Fields – The Very Best of Gary Moore
  • Released: October 1998
  • Label: Virgin
54 10 13
1999 Blood of Emeralds – The Very Best of Gary Moore Part 2
  • Released: September 1999 (Sweden)
  • Label: Virgin
13
2002 The Best of the Blues
  • Also known as Walking By Myself – The Best of the Blues
  • Released: February 2002
  • Label: Virgin
112 20 10 98
[H]
Have Some Moore: The Best Of Gary Moore
  • Released: 2002 (Finland)
  • Label: EMI / Virgin
7
2003 The Essential Gary Moore
  • Re-packaging of Ballads & Blues 1982–1994
  • Released: 24 June 2003
  • Label: Virgin
Parisienne Walkways: The Blues Collection
  • Released: 18 August 2003
  • Label: EMI Gold
Back on the Streets: The Rock Collection
  • Released: 20 August 2003
  • Label: EMI Gold
2006 The Platinum Collection
  • Released: 4 September 2006
  • Label: Virgin
118
[I]
45
[I]
2008 Have Some Moore 2: The Best Of Gary Moore
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: EMI / Capitol
2009 Essential Montreux
  • Special Edition 5CD Set
  • Released: 16 June 2009
  • Label: Eagle
2012 Legacy 173
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.
Notes
  • G^ Ballads & Blues 1982–1994 charted at #14 on Top Blues Albums Chart
  • H^ The Best of the Blues charted at #12 on Top Blues Albums Chart
  • I^ The Platinum Collection didn't chart in UK and Sweden until February 2011.[22][23]

Singles

Year Title Peak chart positions Album
UK
[1][2]
AUS
[3]
FIN
[5][6]
GER
[24]
IRE
[25]
NZ
[8]
NOR
[9]
SWE
[10]
US
[26]
US Rock
[26]
1978 "Parisienne Walkways"
(Gary Moore & Phil Lynott)
8 5 Back on the Streets
1979 "Spanish Guitar"
1981 "Nuclear Attack"
(Gary Moore & Friends)
Dirty Fingers
1982 "Always Gonna Love You" 103 Corridors of Power
"Rockin' Every Night"
"End of the World"
1983 "Falling in Love with You" 110
"Don't Take Me for a Loser" 31
"Hold on to Love" 65 Victims of the Future
1984 "Shapes of Things" 77
"Empty Rooms" 51
"Teenage Idol"
1985 "Out in the Fields"
(Gary Moore & Phil Lynott)
5 62 14 3 21 2 2 Run for Cover
"Empty Rooms '85" [re-recording] 23 100 12 48
"Military Man"
"Run for Cover"
"Listen to Your Heartbeat"
1986 "Reach for the Sky" [+]
"Over the Hills and Far Away" 20 94 1 6 43 1 7 24 Wild Frontier
"Crying in the Shadows" [+]
1987 "Wild Frontier" 35 85 4 22
"Friday on My Mind" 26 25 17 18 30
"The Loner" 53
"Take a Little Time" 75
1988 "After the War" 37 3 14 36 4 12 After the War
1989 "Ready for Love" 56 13
"Led Clones"
"Livin' on Dreams"
1990 "Oh Pretty Woman"
(Gary Moore & Albert King)
48 50 15 Still Got the Blues
"Still Got the Blues (For You)" 31 18 7
[*]
28 28 3 4 97 9
"Walking by Myself" 48 55
"Too Tired"
(Gary Moore featuring Albert Collins)
71
1991 "Moving On" 30
"Midnight Blues"
1992 "Cold Day in Hell" 24 42 29 31 4 24 22 After Hours
"Story of the Blues" 40 99 37
"Since I Met You Baby"
(Gary Moore & B.B. King)
59
"Separate Ways" 59
"Only Fool in Town"
1993 "Parisienne Walkways '93" [Live version] 32 Blues Alive
1994 "Where in the World"
BBM (with Jack Bruce & Ginger Baker)
57 Around The Next Dream
"Waiting in the Wings" [+]
BBM (with Jack Bruce & Ginger Baker)
30
"One Day" 23
[*]
Ballads & Blues 1982–1994
1995 Blues For Greeny EP:
"If I Loved Another Woman" / "If You Be My Baby" /
"Long Grey Mare" / "Showbiz Blues" [+]
Blues for Greeny
"If I Loved Another Woman" [+]
"Need Your Love So Bad" 48
1997 "One Good Reason" 79 Dark Days in Paradise
"I Have Found My Love in You" 109
"Always There for You"
(Gary Moore vs. Professor Stretch)
1999 A Different Beat EP:
"Go On Home" / "Lost In Your Love" / "Worry No More" [+]
A Different Beat
2001 "Picture of the Moon" Back to the Blues
2011 "Parisienne Walkways" 127 The Platinum Collection
"Still Got the Blues" 62
"—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not issued in that region.
Notes
  • +^ Promotional only release
  • '*^ "Still Got the Blues (For You)" and "One Day" didn't chart on the Finnish Singles Chart. Chart positions for these are taken from Finnish Airplay Chart ("Still Got the Blues (For You)") and Finnish Top 50 Hits Chart (Sales + Airplay Chart) ("One Day").[5]

Granny's Intentions

Album

  • Honest Injun (Deram, 1970) (gt on 8 tracks, Johnny Hockedy on 3)

Skid Row

Albums

  • Skid (CBS, October 1970) #30 UK
  • 34 Hours (CBS, 1971)
  • Skid Row (a.k.a. 'Dublin Gas Comy.') - CBS demos recorded early 1970 (CBS, 1990)
  • Skid Row (a.k.a. 'Gary Moore/Brush Shiels/Noel Bridgeman') - Gary Moore version of the unreleased third album recorded late 1971 (Castle, 1990)
  • Live And On Song - Both sides of Skid Row's first two singles on the Song label recorded 1969, plus a BBC 'In Concert' recording from 1971 (Hux, 2006)

Singles

  • "New Places, Old Faces" / "Misdemeanour Dream Felicity" (Song Records, 1969)
  • "Saturday Morning Man" / "Mervyn Aldridge" (Song Records, 1969)
  • "Sandie’s Gone (Part 1)" / "Sandie’s Gone (Part 2)" (CBS, April 1970)
  • "Night Of The Warm Witch" / "Mr. De-Luxe" (CBS, April 1971)
  • "Living One Day At A Time" / "Girl from Dublin City" (CBS, February 1972)[27]

Thin Lizzy

Moore played in Thin Lizzy for several periods and worked with Phil Lynott subsequently in his solo career.

Albums

Compilations

Live

Colosseum II

Colosseum II is a band that came from the ashes of Colosseum and featured Don Airey, Neil Murray/John Mole, Mike Starrs, Jon Hiseman and Moore.

Albums

Greg Lake

Moore participated in the recording of Greg Lake's two solo albums, Greg Lake (1981) and Manoeuvres (1983). He also played live in Greg Lake's line-up. Some notable performances of his touring stint with Lake, were the live covers of King Crimson songs "21st Century Schizoid Man", "In the Court of the Crimson King", as well as "Parisienne Walkways". One concert on this tour was recorded for the King Biscuit Flower Hour, and released on CD in 1995 as King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Greg Lake in Concert.

Moore's 1980 album Dirty Fingers (which also featured ex-Ted Nugent vocalist Charlie Huhn, former Rainbow/Wild Horses and later Dio bassist Jimmy Bain, and ex-Black Oak Arkansas/Pat Travers and later Ozzy Osbourne/Whitesnake/Ted Nugent drummer Tommy Aldridge) had a song called "Nuclear Attack", which he also performed on the Greg Lake album.

Albums

DVDs

Videos

  • Gary Moore – Wild Frontier Tour: Live At Isstadion, Stockholm 1987, (1987)
  • Gary Moore – Emerald Aisles, (1984)
  • Gary Moore – The Singles
  • Gary Moore - Live In Belfast: After The War Tour, (1989)
  • "An Evening of the Blues" with Gary Moore & Midnight Blues Band – featuring Albert Collins & Albert King (1990)
  • Gary Moore and B.B. King (2006)
  • Gary Moore participated in a comedy skit entitled "The Easy Guitar Book Sketch", with comedian Rowland Rivron and fellow British musicians Mark Knopfler, Lemmy from Motorhead, Mark King from Level 42, and David Gilmour.

References

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    • "After the War" (ARIA Chart) peak: Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  14. 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 IFPI Sweden - Gold & Platinum 1987-1998 (pdf)
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  18. RIAA Gold and Platinum Search for albums by Gary Moore. Retrieved on 2011-02-25.
  19. The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community - Certification Awards 1991
  20. IFPI Norsk platebransje - Søk i troféer (artist search)
  21. The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community - Certification Awards 1999
  22. Chart Log UK: New Entries Update 19.02.2011 (wk6)
  23. swedishcharts.com - Gary Moore - The Platinum Collection
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  27. Skid Row at Irish Showbands.com

External links

  • Gary Moore discography at Discogs
  • Conversation with Gary Moore from May, 2007, where he talks about his early days with Phil Lynott - "Moore's almanac." Belfast Telegraph, 24 May 2007.