Gary Moore

Still Got the Blues, Gary Moore's 1990 album, was the Belfast guitarist going home. After a decade of cranking out hard rock and heavy metal, he circled back to the blues that set him on his way, and the title track is the proof: a slow, aching ballad where every bent note seems to cost him something. It became the most successful album of his career.

Moore, born in 1952, took his cues from Peter Green and Eric Clapton, and he got going in the late '60s with Skid Row, cutting two albums with them before joining Thin Lizzy, where he was reunited with his old Skid Row bandmate Phil Lynott. Colosseum II and a solo career followed, and "Parisienne Walkways" in 1979 became his signature tune. The '80s were louder: Corridors of Power in 1982 gave rock radio "Don't Take Me for a Loser", and After the War in 1988 carried "Led Clones".

He was often called a virtuoso, and for much of his career he was bound up with Peter Green's famous 1959 Gibson Les Paul. Moore died of a heart attack while on holiday in Spain in 2011.

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