''The Platinum Collection'' is a 2006 compilation

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Gary Moore Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 19526 February 2011) was a Northern Irish musician. Over the course of his career he played in various groups and performed a range of music including blues, blues rock, hard rock, heavy metal, and jazz ...

. There are three CDs each covering a different category:

Rock Rock most often refers to: * Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids * Rock music, a genre of popular music Rock or Rocks may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wales ...

Blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...

and Live.

Track listing

Disc 1 (Rock)

Parisienne Walkways "Parisienne Walkways" is a song by guitarist Gary Moore that reached number 8 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1979. The song is featured on Moore's album '' Back on the Streets'' and features a vocal from Thin Lizzy frontman, Phil Lynott, who c ...

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Out in the Fields "Out in the Fields" is a song by Irish musicians Gary Moore and Phil Lynott, who had previously been bandmates in Thin Lizzy. Written by Moore and released as a single in 1985, the song was also featured on his album '' Run for Cover'' in the sa ...

" #" Over the Hills and Far Away" #"Empty Rooms ('84 Remix)" #"

Friday on My Mind "Friday on My Mind" is a 1966 song by Australian rock group the Easybeats. Written by band members George Young and Harry Vanda, the track became a worldwide hit, reaching no. 16 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in May 1967 in the US, no. 1 ...

" #"After the War" #"Wild Frontier" #"The Loner" #"

Shapes of Things "Shapes of Things" is a song by the English rock group the Yardbirds. With its Eastern-sounding, feedback-laden guitar solo and anti-war/pro-environmental lyrics, several music writers have identified it as the first popular psychedelic rock ...

" #"Wishing Well" #"Don't Take Me for a Loser" #"Hold on to Love" #"Blood of Emeralds" #"Take a Little Time" #"Like Angels" #"One Good Reason" #"Johnny Boy"

Disc 2 (Blues)

#" Still Got the Blues (For You)" #"Cold Day in Hell" #"Oh Pretty Woman" #"Story of the Blues" #"Separate Ways" #" Since I Met You Baby" #"I Loved Another Woman" #"Woke Up This Morning" #" Further on Up the Road" #" The Sky Is Crying" #"Left Me with the Blues" #"Mean Cruel Woman" #"The Blues Is Alright" #"If You Be My Baby" #"

Need Your Love So Bad "Need Your Love So Bad", sometimes known as "I Need Your Love So Bad", is a song first recorded by Little Willie John in 1955. Called a "unique amalgam of gospel, blues and rhythm & blues", it was John's second single as well as his second reco ...

Disc 3 (Live)

#"Murder in the Skies" (Live) #"Military Man" (Live) #"White Knuckles" (Live) #"Empty Rooms" (Live) #"Out in the Fields" (Live) #"Back on the Streets" (Live) #"

Stop Messin' Around "Stop Messin' Round" is a song first recorded by English blues rock group Fleetwood Mac in 1968. It was written by the group's principal guitarist and singer Peter Green, with an additional credit for manager C.G. Adams. The song is an upbeat 12 ...

" (Live) #"Cold Day in Hell" (Live) #"Midnight Blues" (Live) #"King of the Blues" (Live) #"Caldonia" (Live) #"Cold, Cold Feeling" (Live) #"Parisienne Walkways" (Live)

Personnel

- guitar, vocals *

Bob Daisley Robert John Daisley (born 13 February 1950) is a retired Australian bass guitarist. He has collaborated on several occasions with Ozzy Osbourne, for whom he contributed bass, backing vocals, co-production and songwriting. He has also worked wi ...

- bass guitar *

Darrin Mooney Darrin Shane Mooney (born 26 April 1967, Merton, London) is an English session drummer, best known for his work with Primal Scream and Gary Moore. Mooney started playing at the age of 12 at school. Throughout his school years, he played in vari ...

- drums *Jim Watson - keyboards *

Phil Lynott Philip Parris Lynott (, ; 20 August 1949 – 4 January 1986) was an Irish singer, bassist, and songwriter. His most commercially successful group was Thin Lizzy, of which he was a founding member, the principal songwriter, lead vocalist and ba ...

- bass guitar, vocals * Neil Carter - keyboard *

Albert King Albert Nelson (April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992), known by his stage name Albert King, was an American guitarist and singer who is often regarded as one of the greatest and most influential blues guitarists of all time. He is perhaps b ...

- guitar

References

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