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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Kevin and all</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I know you mean Gary Moore's
<STRONG>"Parisienne Walkways"!</STRONG> </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In the early 1978 Gary was working on his second
solo album and one day at Phil Lynott's house he played the lead line, and
Phil said he thought it sounded French. Lynott wrote most of the - sparse -
lyrics including the line "I remember Paris in '49" (Lynott's father's name
was Parris and he (Lynott) was born in 1949 even if he at the time
lied himself younger, saying he was born in 1952).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The song must have been written in very
early 1978 and when Gary's solo album came out "Walkways" was a great chart
success as a single. But at that time he had joined Thin Lizzy and in April 1979
Lizzy released a video with the song. Gary had a solo spot on all Lizzy concerts
with that great song, and his hardest fans used to travel around with the band,
timing the "long note"! </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So it predates the live "Just One Night", but to my
ears EC did not steal from that one, even if I would love to claim it, being the
President of The Danish Gary Moore Society!!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Unfortunately Gary never got a chance to follow up
on his chart success, because Lizzy came first. After he left in July 1979
"Walkways" was far away and in fact considered a Lizzy song! To me that song has
the same quality as "Yesterday" or his own "Still Got The Blues". When you hear
it for the first time, you think you know it, and you can remember it
immediately. Really hit potential. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To this day, in fact on his on-going tour, he still
plays "Parisienne Walkways" as the last song, and still keeps that looooooooong
note.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well, you got me rambling.....and you are right
about EC "shunning" Gary. EC has played with almost everybody in the world, but
not Gary. I think their styles are too far from each other to make a listenable
"duet", but of course it could be fun. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gary - with his "Still Got The Blues" album
- paved the way for the resurrection of the (white boy-) blues in
the 90's (and also for EC's "From the Cradle"). On "Still Got.." he even duets
with George Harrison on "This Kind Of Woman" the same song that George and EC
later on recorded for the Romanian Appeal CD.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>all the best</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>René </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Denmark</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>prez of DDGMS</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>