The Platinum Collection is a 2006 compilation album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Gary Moore

Gary Moore

Robert William Gary Moore , better known simply as Gary Moore, was a Northern Irish musician from Belfast, best recognised as a blues rock guitarist and singer....

. There are three CDs each covering a different category: Rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

, Blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 and Live. Disc One (Rock) features "Out in the Fields

Out in the Fields (song)

"Out in the Fields" is a single by former Thin Lizzy band members Gary Moore and Phil Lynott, released in 1985. The song is about the religious turmoil in their native Ireland....

" (with Phil Lynott

Phil Lynott

Philip Parris "Phil" Lynott was an Irish musician who first came to prominence as a founding member, principal songwriter, and frontman of the Irish rock band Thin Lizzy....

), "Wild Frontier", "Like Angels" and others. Disc Two (Blues) features "Still Got the Blues", "Oh Pretty Woman" (featuring Albert King

Albert King

Albert King was an American blues guitarist and singer, and a major influence in the world of blues guitar playing.-Career:...

), "Mean Cruel Woman", and more. Disc Three (Live) features definitive versions of "Murder in the Sky", "Cold Day in Hell", "Military Man", and others.

Disc 1 (Rock)

1. "Parisienne Walkways
   Parisienne Walkways (song)
   "Parisienne Walkways" is a song by the guitarist Gary Moore that reached number 8 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1979. The song is a track from the album Back on the Streets and features a vocal from Thin Lizzy front man, Phil Lynott, who co-wrote the song with Moore.The guitarist continued to play...
   
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2. "Out in the Fields
   Out in the Fields (song)
   "Out in the Fields" is a single by former Thin Lizzy band members Gary Moore and Phil Lynott, released in 1985. The song is about the religious turmoil in their native Ireland....
   
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3. "Over the Hills and Far Away
   Over the Hills and Far Away
   -Music:* "Over the Hills and Far Away" , an 18th century song recently used as the signature theme for the TV series Sharpe** Over the Hills & Far Away: The Music of Sharpe, album...
   
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4. "Empty Rooms ('84 Remix)"
5. "Friday on My Mind"
6. "After the War"
7. "Wild Frontier"
8. "The Loner"
9. "Shapes of Things"
10. "Wishing Well"
11. "Don't Take Me for a Loser"
12. "Hold on to Love"
13. "Blood of Emeralds"
14. "Take a Little Time"
15. "Like Angels"
16. "One Good Reason"
17. "Johnny Boy"

Disc 2 (Blues)

1. "Still Got the Blues"
2. "Cold Day in Hell"
3. "Oh Pretty Woman"
4. "Story of the Blues"
5. "Separate Ways"
6. "Since I Met You Baby"
7. "I Loved Another Woman"
8. "Woke Up This Morning"
9. "Further on Up the Road"
10. "The Sky Is Crying
    The Sky Is Crying (song)
    "The Sky Is Crying" is a song that has become a blues standard. The song was written and recorded by Elmore James in 1959. Called "one of his most durable compositions", "The Sky Is Crying" became a R&B record chart hit and has been interpreted and recorded by numerous artists.-Original song:"The...
    
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11. "Left Me with the Blues"
12. "Mean Cruel Woman"
13. "The Blues Is Alright"
14. "If You Be My Baby"
15. "Need Your Love So Bad
    Need Your Love So Bad
    "Need Your Love So Bad" sometimes known as "I Need Your Love So Bad", is a blues song first published in 1955 and written by Mertis John Jr....
    
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Disc 3 (Live)

1. "Murder in the Skies" (Live)
2. "Military Man" (Live)
3. "White Knuckles" (Live)
4. "Empty Rooms" (Live)
5. "Out in the Fields" (Live)
6. "Back on the Streets" (Live)
7. "Stop Messin' Around
   Stop Messin' Around
   "Stop Messin' Round" is a song written by Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac and was originally recorded on Fleetwood Mac's album Mr. Wonderful in 1968...
   
   " (Live)
8. "Cold Day in Hell" (Live)
9. "Midnight Blues" (Live)
10. "King of the Blues" (Live)
11. "Caldonia" (Live)
12. "Cold, Cold Feeling" (Live)
13. "Parisienne Walkways" (Live)

Personnel

• Gary Moore
  Gary Moore
  Robert William Gary Moore , better known simply as Gary Moore, was a Northern Irish musician from Belfast, best recognised as a blues rock guitarist and singer....
  
   - guitar, vocals
• Bob Daisley
  Bob Daisley
  Robert John "Bob" Daisley is an Australian musician, bassist and lyricist who has performed in genres of rock, blues, R&B, hard rock and metal.-Early career:...
  
   - bass guitar
• Darrin Mooney - drums
• Jim Watson - keyboards
• Phil Lynott
  Phil Lynott
  Philip Parris "Phil" Lynott was an Irish musician who first came to prominence as a founding member, principal songwriter, and frontman of the Irish rock band Thin Lizzy....
  
   - bass guitar, vocals
• Neil Carter - keyboard
• Albert King
  Albert King
  Albert King was an American blues guitarist and singer, and a major influence in the world of blues guitar playing.-Career:...
  
  - guitar