Gary Moore discography explained

Artist:Gary Moore
Studio:18
Compilation:12
Live:9
Singles:53

This is the discography of the Northern Irish blues, heavy metal and hard rock guitarist and singer-songwriter Gary Moore.

Albums

Solo studio albums

YearTitlePeak chart positionsCertifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
AUT
[3]
FIN
[4]
GER
[5]
NZ
[6]
NOR
[7]
SWE
[8]
SWI
[9]
US
[10]
US Blues
[11]
1978Back on the Streets
  • Released: 30 September 1978
  • Label: MCA
70
1982Corridors of Power
  • Released: October 1982
  • Label: Virgin
30149
1983Dirty Fingers
  • Recorded in 1980
  • Released: April 1983 (Japan) / 1984 (Europe)
  • Label: Jet
1984Victims of the Future
  • Released: 30 January 1984
  • Label: Virgin
1275315172
1985Run for Cover
  • Released: 2 September 1985
  • Label: Virgin
127310272376146

Silver[12]

Gold[13]

1987Wild Frontier
  • Released: 2 March 1987
  • Label: Virgin
841161911127139

Silver

Platinum

Gold[14]

1989After the War
  • Released: January 1989
  • Label: Virgin
23623214333114

Silver

Gold

Gold[15]

1990
Still Got the Blues
  • Released: March 1990
  • Label: Virgin
  • Format: LP, CD


13513141421383

Platinum

2× Platinum

Gold

Platinum[16]

Gold

Gold[17]

Platinum[18]

1992After Hours
  • Released: 9 March 1992
  • Label: Virgin
486829211145

Gold

Platinum

1995Blues for Greeny
  • Released: 31 May 1995
  • Label: Virgin
145914333140265
1997Dark Days in Paradise
  • Released: 2 June 1997
  • Label: Virgin
43192732272322
1999A Different Beat 13360
2001Back to the Blues 5368364022496
2004Power of the Blues
  • Released: 22 June 2004
  • Label: Sanctuary
15865519
2006Old New Ballads Blues
  • Released: 2 May 2006
  • Label: Eagle
148916
2007Close As You Get
  • Released: 21 May 2007
  • Label: Eagle
10266957
2008Bad for You Baby
  • Released: 22 September 2008
  • Label: Eagle
10169712
2021How Blue Can You Get
  • Released: 30 April 2021
  • Label: Provogue
542218
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.

With other projects

YearTitlePeak chart positions
UK
AUT
FIN
GER
NZ
SWE
SWI
1973Grinding Stone
  • The Gary Moore Band
  • Released: 1973
  • Label: CBS
1980G-Force
  • G-Force
  • Released: 30 May 1980
  • Label: JVC Japan
1994Around the Next Dream 9281420171325
2002Scars
  • Scars (with Cass Lewis & Darrin Mooney)
  • Released: 10 September 2002
  • Label: Sanctuary
904831
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.

Live albums

YearTitlePeak chart positionsCertifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
AUS
AUT
FIN
GER
NOR
SWE
SWI
US
US Blues
1983Rockin' Every Night – Live in Japan
  • Released: 21 May 1983
  • Label: Virgin
999137
1983Live at the Marquee
  • Recorded: 5–6 November 1980
  • Released: 21 September 1983
  • Label: Jet
1984We Want Moore!
  • Recorded: February & June 1984
  • Released: October 1984
  • Label: Virgin
32215221
1993Blues Alive
  • Recorded: 1992
  • Released: May 1993
  • Label: Virgin
8731431184014

Gold

2003Live at Monsters of Rock
  • Released: 30 September 2003
  • Label: Sanctuary
2010Live at Montreux 2010
  • Released: 19 September 2011
  • Label: Eagle
4110
2012Blues for Jimi
  • Recorded: 25 October 2007
  • Release date: 24 September 2012
  • Label: Eagle
8056364
2014Live at Bush Hall 2007 1285
2020Live from London
  • Released: 31 January 2020
  • Label: Mascot, Provogue
70171084341
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.

Compilation albums

YearTitlePeak chart positionsCertifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
AUS
AUT
FIN
GER
NZ
NOR
SWE
SWI
US
US Blues
1982Gary Moore
  • Japan-only release
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: MCA
1988And Then the Man Said to His Guitar..
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Accord
1994Ballads & Blues 1982–1994
  • Released: 14 November 1994
  • Label: Virgin
33430266101514

Gold

Gold

Gold[19]

Gold[20]

1996Streets & Walkways: The Best of Gary Moore & Colosseum II
  • Released: December 1996
  • Label: Music Club
1998Out in the Fields – The Very Best of Gary Moore
  • Released: 19 October 1998
  • Label: Virgin
541013

Gold

1999Blood of Emeralds – The Very Best of Gary Moore Part 2
  • Released: September 1999 (Sweden)
  • Label: Virgin
13
2002The Best of the Blues
  • Also known as Walking By Myself – The Best of the Blues
  • Released: February 2002
  • Label: Virgin
11220109812
Have Some Moore: The Best Of Gary Moore
  • Released: 2002 (Finland)
  • Label: EMI / Virgin
7

Gold

2003The 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
2006The Platinum Collection
  • Released: 4 September 2006
  • Label: Virgin
118
[X]
45
[X]
2008Have Some Moore 2: The Best Of Gary Moore
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: EMI / Capitol
2009Essential Montreux
  • Special Edition 5CD Set
  • Released: 16 June 2009
  • Label: Eagle
2012Legacy 173
2017Blues and Beyond
  • Double CD, 4 LP and Box Set
  • Released: 24 November 2017
  • Label: BMG
3
2020Parisienne Walkways: The Collection
  • Double CD
  • Released: 17 January 2020
  • Label: BMG
4
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.
Notes

Singles

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[4]

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[24]

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[25]

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[6]

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[7]

!width="35"|SWE
[8]

!width="35"|US
[26]

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|-|rowspan="1"|1978|"Back on the Streets"|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center" rowspan="2"|Back on the Streets|-|rowspan="2"|1979|"Parisienne Walkways|align="center"|8|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|5|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|-|"Spanish Guitar"|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|-|rowspan="1"|1981|"Nuclear Attack"
(Gary Moore & Friends)|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center" rowspan="1"|Dirty Fingers|-|rowspan="1"|1982|"Always Gonna Love You"|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|103|align="center"|—|align="center" rowspan="2"|Corridors of Power|-|rowspan="1"|1983|"Falling in Love with You"|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|110|align="center"|—|-|rowspan="4"|1984|"Hold on to Love"|align="center"|65|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center" rowspan="3"|Victims of the Future|-|"Shapes of Things"|align="center"|77|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|-|"Empty Rooms"|align="center"|51|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|-|"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center" rowspan="1"|Dirty Fingers|-|rowspan="4"|1985|"Out in the Fields"
(Gary Moore & Phil Lynott)|align="center"|5|align="center"|62|align="center"|24|align="center"|14|align="center"|3|align="center"|21|align="center"|2|align="center"|2|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center" rowspan="4"|Run for Cover|-|"Empty Rooms" [Summer 1985 version]|align="center"|23|align="center"|100|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|12|align="center"|48|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|-|"Run for Cover"|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|-|"Listen to Your Heartbeat"|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|-|rowspan="1"|1986|"Over the Hills and Far Away"|align="center"|20|align="center"|94|align="center"|1|align="center"|—|align="center"|6|align="center"|43|align="center"|1|align="center"|7|align="center"|—|align="center"|24|align="center" rowspan="5"|Wild Frontier|-|rowspan="4"|1987|"Wild Frontier"|align="center"|35|align="center"|85|align="center"|4|align="center"|—|align="center"|22|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|-|"Friday on My Mind"|align="center"|26|align="center"|25|align="center"|15|align="center"|—|align="center"|18|align="center"|30|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|-|"The Loner"|align="center"|53|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|-|"Take a Little Time"|align="center"|75|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|-|rowspan="4"|1989|"After the War"|align="center"|37|align="center"|151|align="center"|5|align="center"|—|align="center"|14|align="center"|36|align="center"|4|align="center"|12|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center" rowspan="4"|After the War|-|"Ready for Love"|align="center"|56|align="center"|113|align="center"|26|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|13|-|"Led Clones"|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|-|"Livin' on Dreams"|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|-|rowspan="4"|1990|"Oh Pretty Woman"
(Gary Moore & Albert King)|align="center"|48|align="center"|50|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|15|align="center" rowspan="4"|Still Got the Blues|-|"Still Got the Blues (For You)" |align="center"|31|align="center"|18|align="center"|17|align="center"|28|align="center"|28|align="center"|—|align="center"|3|align="center"|4|align="center"|97|align="center"|9|-|"Walking by Myself"|align="center"|48|align="center"|55|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|-|"Too Tired"
(Gary Moore featuring Albert Collins)|align="center"|71|align="center"|130|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|-|rowspan="4"|1992|"Cold Day in Hell"|align="center"|24|align="center"|42|align="center"|—|align="center"|29|align="center"|—|align="center"|31|align="center"|4|align="center"|24|align="center"|—|align="center"|22|align="center" rowspan="4"|After Hours|-|"Story of the Blues"|align="center"|40|align="center"|124|align="center"|—|align="center"|99|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|37|-|"Since I Met You Baby"
(Gary Moore & B.B. King)|align="center"|59|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|-|"Separate Ways"|align="center"|59|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|-|rowspan="1"|1993|"Parisienne Walkways '93" [Live]|align="center"|32|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center" rowspan="1"|Blues Alive|-|rowspan="2"|1994|"Where in the World"
BBM (with Jack Bruce & Ginger Baker)|align="center"|57|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center" rowspan="1"|Around The Next Dream|-|"One Day"|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—
[*]|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center" rowspan="2"|Ballads & Blues 1982–1994|-|rowspan="1"|1995|"Need Your Love So Bad"|align="center"|48|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|-|rowspan="3"|1997|"One Good Reason"|align="center"|79|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center" rowspan="3"|Dark Days in Paradise|-|"I Have Found My Love in You"|align="center"|90|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|-|"Always There for You"
(Gary Moore vs. Professor Stretch)|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|-|rowspan="1"|2001|"Picture of the Moon"|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center" rowspan="1"|Back to the Blues|-|rowspan="2"|2011|"Parisienne Walkways"|align="center"|127|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center" rowspan="2"|The Platinum Collection|-|"Still Got the Blues"|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|62|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|align="center"|—|-|align="center" colspan="15" style="font-size: 85%"| "—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not issued in that region.|}Notes

Granny's Intentions

Album

Skid Row

Albums

Singles

Thin Lizzy

Moore played in Thin Lizzy (1973–74, 1977–79) for several periods and worked with Phil Lynott subsequently in his solo career.

Albums

Compilations

Live

Colosseum II

Colosseum II is a band that succeeded 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 1983 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

Early works, guest appearances & sessions

Videos

External links

Notes and References

  1. UK chart peaks:
    • Top 100 peaks: Web site: The Official Charts Company > Gary Moore. Official Charts Company. 12 February 2011. N.B. This site applies chart exclusion rules to positions 76-100.
    • Top 200 peaks from November 1994 to December 2010: Web site: Chart Log UK 1994-2010: M – My Vitriol. zobbel.de. 21 October 2019. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20150721043340/http://zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK_M.HTM . 21 July 2015. N.B. This site displays uncompressed chart (no exclusions) peaks between positions 76 and 200, from November 1994 to May 2001. Some peaks in this region of the chart may therefore be lower than those listed on the Official Charts site.
  2. Australian chart peaks:
  3. Web site: Austrian Charts – Gary Moore. Hung Medien. 12 February 2011.
  4. Web site: Sisältää hitin: Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1961: MOK - MOY > Garu Moore. Sisältää hitin / Timo Pennanen. 21 November 2017.
  5. Web site: Discographie von Gary Moore. GfK Entertainment. 5 February 2020.
  6. Web site: New Zealand Charts – Gary Moore. Hung Medien. 12 February 2011.
  7. Web site: Norwegian Charts – Gary Moore. Hung Medien. 12 February 2011.
  8. Web site: Swedish Charts – Gary Moore. Hung Medien. 12 February 2011.
  9. Web site: Swiss Charts – Gary Moore. Hung Medien. 12 February 2011.
  10. Web site: Gary Moore Chart History - Billboard 200. Billboard. 9 May 2021.
  11. Web site: Gary Moore Chart History - Billboard Blues Albums. Billboard. 9 May 2021.
  12. Web site: Certified Awards Search . . 2011-02-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110511120001/http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/Search.aspx . 2011-05-11 .
  13. http://www.ifpi.se/wp/wp-content/uploads/guld-platina-1987-1998.pdf IFPI Sweden – Gold & Platinum 1987–1998 (pdf)
  14. Web site: Album Certification Awards (Finland) – Gary Moore . 2011-02-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110720183435/http://ifpi.fi/tilastot/kultalevyt/haku/?q=gary%20moore&national=0&type=album . 2011-07-20 . dead .
  15. Germany. Gary Moore. 2011-02-25.
  16. Book: Ryan, Gavin. Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. 2011. Moonlight Publishing. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia. pdf. 192–193.
  17. https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=3&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&action=&title=&artist=Gary+Moore&format=&debutLP=&category=&sex=&releaseDate=&requestNo=&type=&level=&label=&company=&certificationDate=&awardDescription=&catalogNo=&aSex=&rec_id=&charField=&gold=&platinum=&multiPlat=&level2=&certDate=&album=&id=&after=&before=&startMonth=1&endMonth=1&startYear=1958&endYear=2008&sort=Artist&perPage=25 RIAA Gold and Platinum Search for albums by Gary Moore
  18. http://swisscharts.com/awards.asp?year=1991 The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community – Certification Awards 1991
  19. http://www.ifpi.no/sok/index_trofe.htm IFPI Norsk platebransje – Søk i troféer (artist search)
  20. http://swisscharts.com/awards.asp?year=1999 The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community – Certification Awards 1999
  21. http://zobbel.de/cluk/110219cluk.txt Chart Log UK: New Entries Update 19.02.2011 (wk6)
  22. http://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Gary+Moore&titel=The+Platinum+Collection&cat=a swedishcharts.com – Gary Moore – The Platinum Collection
  23. Peaks below the top 100 in Australia:
  24. Web site: German Singles Chart – Gary Moore. PHONONET GmbH. 25 February 2011.
  25. Web site: The Irish Charts – search the charts > Gary Moore . Irish Recorded Music Association . 25 February 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090602061251/http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement . 2 June 2009.
  26. Web site: Gary Moore Chart History - Billboard. Billboard. 9 May 2021.
  27. http://www.irish-showbands.com/Bands/skidrow.htm Skid Row at Irish Showbands.com