Μεγαλώνοντας με έντονες επιρροές από την Blues μουσική αλλά και από τον Elvis Presley, στα 13 του το 1961, αποκτά μια κιθάρα Stratocaster που τον συνοδεύει σε όλη την καριέρα του και στα 16 του, ιδρύει τους Impact, ένα συγκρότημα της Blues μουσικής και μαζί τους έπαιξε στη Γερμανία και Ισπανία.
Το 1966 μαζί με τους Eric Kitteringham και Norman Damery ιδρύει τους Taste και μαζί τους γνωρίζει μεγάλη επιτυχία με τα δύο άλμπουμ που πρόλαβαν να κυκλοφορήσουν ( "Taste" και "On the Boards").
Αμέσως μετά την διάλυση των Taste το 1970 ξεκινάει σόλο καριέρα και το 1971 κυκλοφορεί το πρώτο του προσωπικό άλμπουμ που είχε τίτλο το όνομά του.
Δεξιοτέχνης της κιθάρας, αλλά και με πρωτότυπες συνθέσεις αναρριχήθηκε γρήγορα στη κορυφή και τα επόμενα άλμπουμ του γνώρισαν τεράστια επιτυχία και στις δύο πλευρές του Ατλαντικού.
Το 1976 κυκλοφορεί το πολύ σπουδαίο άλμπουμ "Calling Card" με παραγωγό τον Roger Glover, μπασίστα των Deep Purple
Αντισυμβατικός, με πολύ χαμηλό profil και ιδιαίτερα προσηλωμένος στη μουσική που έπαιζε δεν δέχτηκε την πρόταση των Rolling Stones για να γίνει μέλος τους και όταν το 1976 γνώρισε μεγάλη επιτυχία στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες το άλμπουμ Calling Card και το τραγούδι "Edged In Blue" δεν δέχτηκε να το κυκλοφορήσει σαν single θεωρώντας την δουλειά του ενιαία όπως ήταν καταγεγραμμένη στο άλμπουμ
Την δεκαετία του '90 η κατάσταση της υγείας του είχε επιδεινωθεί λόγω του αλκοόλ και αναγκάστηκε να υποβληθεί σε μεταμόσχευση ήπατος τον Απρίλιο του 1995, ενώ λίγους μήνες μετά στις 14 Ιουνίου πέθανε από σοβαρές επιπλοκές.
Personal Albums
Studio album
Released: 1971
Label: Polydor (U.K.)/Atco (U.S.)
Producer: Rory Gallagher
Tracks: Laundromat/Just the Smile/I Fall Apart/Wave Myself Goodbye/Hands Up/Sinner Boy/For the Last Time /It's You/I'm not Surprised/Can't Believe It's True
Studio album
Released: 1971
Recorded 1971
Label: Polydor (U.K.)/Atco (U.S.)
Producer: Rory Gallagher
Tracks: I'm Not Awake Yet/Used to Be/Don't Know Where I'm Going/Maybe I Will/Whole Lot of People/In Your Town/Should've Learnt My Lesson/There's a Light/Out of My Mind/Crest of a Wave
Live album
Released: 1972
Label: Polydor (U.K./U.S.)
Producer: Rory Gallagher
Tracks: Messin' With the Kid/Laundromat/I Could've Had Religion/Pistol Slapper Blues/Going to My Hometown/In Your Town/Bullfrog Blues
Studio album
Released: 1973
Label: Polydor (U.K./U.S.)
Producer: Rory Gallagher
Tracks: Walk On Hot Coals/Daughter of the Everglades/Banker's Blues/Hands Off/Race the Breeze/Seventh Son of a Seventh Son/Unmilitary Two-Step/If I Had A Reason
Tattoo
Studio album
Released: 1973
Label: Polydor (U.K./U.S.)
Producer: Rory Gallagher
Tracks: Tattoo'd Lady/Cradle Rock/20:20 Vision/They Don't Make Them Like You Anymore/Livin' Like a Trucker/Sleep on a Clothes Line/Who's That Coming/A Million Miles Away/Admit it
Irish Tour '74
Live album
Released: 1974
Label: Polydor (U.K./U.S.)
Producer: Rory Gallagher
Tracks: Cradle Rock/ I Wonder Who/Tattoo'd Lady/Too Much Alcohol/As the Crow Flies/A Million Miles Away/Walk on Hot Coals/Who's That Coming/Back on My Stompin' Ground/Maritime
Against the Grain
Studio album
Released: 1975
Label: Chrysalis
Producer: Rory Gallagher
Tracks: Let Me In/Cross Me Off Your List/Ain't Too Good/Souped-Up Ford/Bought and Sold/I Take What I Want/Lost at Sea/All Around Man/Out on the Western Plain/At the Bottom
Calling Card
Studio album
Released: 1976
Label: Chrysalis
Producer: Rory Gallagher & Roger Glover
Tracks: Do You Read Me/Country Mile/Moonchild/Calling Card/I'll Admit That You' re Gone/Secret Agent/Jacknife Beat/Edged In Blue/Barley And Grape Rag
Photo-Finish
Studio album
Released: 1978
Label: Chrysalis
Producer: Rory Gallagher & Alan O'Duffy
Tracks:Shin Kicker/Brute Force & Ignorance/Cruise On Out/Cloak & Dagger/Overnight Bag/Shadow Play/The Mississippi Sheiks/The Last Of The Independents/Fuel To The Fire/Early Warning/Juke Box Annie
Top Priority
Studio album
Released: 1979
Label: Chrysalis
Producer: Rory Gallagher & Alan O'Duffy
Tracks: Follow Me/Philby/Wayward Child/ Key Chain/At the Depot/ Bad Penny/Just Hit Town /Off the Handle/Public Enemy No. 1
Stage Struck
Live album
Released: 1980
Label: Chrysalis
Producer: Rory Gallagher
Tracks: Shi Kicker Me/Wayward Child/Brute Force and Ignorance/Moonchild/Follow Me/Bought and Sold/The Last of the Independents/Shadow Play
Jinx
Studio album
Released: 1982
LabelQ Chrysalis (U.K.)/Mercury (U.S.)
Producer: Rory Gallagher
Tracks: Signals/The Devil Made Me Do It/Double Vision/Easy Come Easy Go/ Big Guns/Jinxed/Bourbon/ Ride On Red, Ride On/ Loose Talk
Defender
Studio album
Released: 1987
Label: Capo/Demon
Producer: Rory Gallagher
Tracks: Kickback City/Loanshark Blues/Continental Op/I Ain't No Saint/Failsafe Day/Road to Hell/Doing Time/Smear Canpaign/Don't Start Me Talkin'/Seven Days
Fresh Evidence
Studio album
Released: 1990
Label: Capo (U.K.) - Capo/I.R.S. (U.S.)
Producer: Rory Gallagher
Tracks: Kid Gloves/The King of Zydec/Middle Name/Alexis/Empire State Express (House)/Ghost Blues/Heaven's Gate/The Loop/Walkin' Wounded/Sluumming Angel
Meeting with the G-Man
Live album
Released: 2003
Recorded: 1993
Label: Capo/RCA
Producer: Rory Gallagher
Tracks: Continental OP/Moonchild/Mean Desposition/The Loop/Don't Start Me Talkin'/She Moved Through the Fair/ Out On the Western Plain/William of Green/Mercy River/Amazing Grace/Walking Blues/Don't Think Twice It's Alright/Ghost Blues/Messin' with the Kid/La Bamba
Live at Montreux
Live album
Released: 2006
Recorded: 1975/1977/1979/1985
Label: Eagle
Producer Rory Gallagher
Tracks: Laundromat/Toredown'/I Take What I Want/Bought amd Sold/Do You Read Me/The Last of the Independents/Off the Handle/The Mississippi Sheiks/Out On the Western Plain/Too Much Alcohol/Shin Kicker/Philby
Notes from San Francisco
Studio album/Live album
Released: 2011
Label: Capo/Legacy/Eagle Rock
Producer: Elliot Mazer & Daniel Gallagher
Tracks: Rue the Day/Persuasion/B Girl/Mississippi Sheiks/Wheels Within Wheels/ Overnight Bag/Cruise On Out/ Brute Force and Ignorance/Fuel to the Fire/Wheels Within Wheels Alt. Version/Cut a Dash/Out On the Tiles/Follow Me/Shin Kicker/Off the Handle/Bought and Sold/I'm Leavin'/ Tattoo'd Lady/Do You Read Me/Country Mile/Calling Card/Shadow Play/Bullfrog Blues/ Sea Cruise
Compilation albums
1974: The Story So Far
1975: Sinner... And Saint also released as Rory Gallagher
1976: Take It Easy Baby (Taste demo sessions)
1992: Etched In Blue
1995: A Blue Day For The Blues
1999: BBC Sessions
2003: Wheels Within Wheels (acoustic)
2005: Big Guns: The Very Best of Rory Gallagher
2008: The Essential
2009: Crest of a Wave: The Best of Rory Gallagher
2010: The Beat Club Sessions
2012: The Rory Gallagher Collection
Singles
1976: Moonchild" / Calling Card" - GER/ NL 1976
1978: Shadow Play" / "Brute Force and Ignorence" / "Souped-up Ford" - UK/ IRL 1978
1979: Philby" / "Hellcat" // "Country Mile" - UK/ EU/ AUS 1979 [c]
1980: Wayward Child" (live) / "Keychain" - UK/ IRL 1980
1982: Big Guns" / "The Devil Made Me Do It" - UK/ IRL 1982
with Taste
Albums1969: London Invasion (Pontiac Records)
1969: Taste (Polydor)
1970: On the Boards (Polydor)
1971: Live Taste (live album) (Polydor)
1972: Live at the Isle of Wight (live album) (Polydor)
1974: Taste First (BASF)
1994: The Best of Taste (compilation album) (Polydor)
Singles
1968: Blister on the Moon/ Born on the Wrong Side of Time
1969: Born on the Wrong Side of Time/Same Old Story
1970: What's Going On/Railway and Gun
1970: If I Don't Sing I'll Cry/I'll Remember
1972: Wee Wee Baby" / "You've Got to Play" – GER 1972
1982: Blister on the Moon/Sugar Mama/Catfish/On the Boards
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Producer: Rory Gallagher
Tracks: Walk On Hot Coals/Daughter of the Everglades/Banker's Blues/Hands Off/Race the Breeze/Seventh Son of a Seventh Son/Unmilitary Two-Step/If I Had A Reason
Studio album
Released: 1973
Label: Polydor (U.K./U.S.)
Producer: Rory Gallagher
Tracks: Tattoo'd Lady/Cradle Rock/20:20 Vision/They Don't Make Them Like You Anymore/Livin' Like a Trucker/Sleep on a Clothes Line/Who's That Coming/A Million Miles Away/Admit it
Live album
Released: 1974
Label: Polydor (U.K./U.S.)
Producer: Rory Gallagher
Tracks: Cradle Rock/ I Wonder Who/Tattoo'd Lady/Too Much Alcohol/As the Crow Flies/A Million Miles Away/Walk on Hot Coals/Who's That Coming/Back on My Stompin' Ground/Maritime
Studio album
Released: 1975
Label: Chrysalis
Producer: Rory Gallagher
Tracks: Let Me In/Cross Me Off Your List/Ain't Too Good/Souped-Up Ford/Bought and Sold/I Take What I Want/Lost at Sea/All Around Man/Out on the Western Plain/At the Bottom
Studio album
Released: 1976
Label: Chrysalis
Producer: Rory Gallagher & Roger Glover
Tracks: Do You Read Me/Country Mile/Moonchild/Calling Card/I'll Admit That You' re Gone/Secret Agent/Jacknife Beat/Edged In Blue/Barley And Grape Rag
Studio album
Released: 1978
Label: Chrysalis
Producer: Rory Gallagher & Alan O'Duffy
Tracks:Shin Kicker/Brute Force & Ignorance/Cruise On Out/Cloak & Dagger/Overnight Bag/Shadow Play/The Mississippi Sheiks/The Last Of The Independents/Fuel To The Fire/Early Warning/Juke Box Annie
Studio album
Released: 1979
Label: Chrysalis
Producer: Rory Gallagher & Alan O'Duffy
Tracks: Follow Me/Philby/Wayward Child/ Key Chain/At the Depot/ Bad Penny/Just Hit Town /Off the Handle/Public Enemy No. 1
Live album
Released: 1980
Label: Chrysalis
Producer: Rory Gallagher
Tracks: Shi Kicker Me/Wayward Child/Brute Force and Ignorance/Moonchild/Follow Me/Bought and Sold/The Last of the Independents/Shadow Play
Studio album
Released: 1982
LabelQ Chrysalis (U.K.)/Mercury (U.S.)
Producer: Rory Gallagher
Tracks: Signals/The Devil Made Me Do It/Double Vision/Easy Come Easy Go/ Big Guns/Jinxed/Bourbon/ Ride On Red, Ride On/ Loose Talk
Studio album
Released: 1987
Label: Capo/Demon
Producer: Rory Gallagher
Tracks: Kickback City/Loanshark Blues/Continental Op/I Ain't No Saint/Failsafe Day/Road to Hell/Doing Time/Smear Canpaign/Don't Start Me Talkin'/Seven Days
Studio album
Released: 1990
Label: Capo (U.K.) - Capo/I.R.S. (U.S.)
Producer: Rory Gallagher
Tracks: Kid Gloves/The King of Zydec/Middle Name/Alexis/Empire State Express (House)/Ghost Blues/Heaven's Gate/The Loop/Walkin' Wounded/Sluumming Angel
Live album
Released: 2003
Recorded: 1993
Label: Capo/RCA
Producer: Rory Gallagher
Tracks: Continental OP/Moonchild/Mean Desposition/The Loop/Don't Start Me Talkin'/She Moved Through the Fair/ Out On the Western Plain/William of Green/Mercy River/Amazing Grace/Walking Blues/Don't Think Twice It's Alright/Ghost Blues/Messin' with the Kid/La Bamba
Live album
Released: 2006
Recorded: 1975/1977/1979/1985
Label: Eagle
Producer Rory Gallagher
Tracks: Laundromat/Toredown'/I Take What I Want/Bought amd Sold/Do You Read Me/The Last of the Independents/Off the Handle/The Mississippi Sheiks/Out On the Western Plain/Too Much Alcohol/Shin Kicker/Philby
Studio album/Live album
Released: 2011
Label: Capo/Legacy/Eagle Rock
Producer: Elliot Mazer & Daniel Gallagher
Tracks: Rue the Day/Persuasion/B Girl/Mississippi Sheiks/Wheels Within Wheels/ Overnight Bag/Cruise On Out/ Brute Force and Ignorance/Fuel to the Fire/Wheels Within Wheels Alt. Version/Cut a Dash/Out On the Tiles/Follow Me/Shin Kicker/Off the Handle/Bought and Sold/I'm Leavin'/ Tattoo'd Lady/Do You Read Me/Country Mile/Calling Card/Shadow Play/Bullfrog Blues/ Sea Cruise
Compilation albums
1974: The Story So Far
1975: Sinner... And Saint also released as Rory Gallagher
1976: Take It Easy Baby (Taste demo sessions)
1992: Etched In Blue
1995: A Blue Day For The Blues
1999: BBC Sessions
2003: Wheels Within Wheels (acoustic)
2005: Big Guns: The Very Best of Rory Gallagher
2008: The Essential
2009: Crest of a Wave: The Best of Rory Gallagher
2010: The Beat Club Sessions
2012: The Rory Gallagher Collection
Singles
1976: Moonchild" / Calling Card" - GER/ NL 1976
1978: Shadow Play" / "Brute Force and Ignorence" / "Souped-up Ford" - UK/ IRL 1978
1979: Philby" / "Hellcat" // "Country Mile" - UK/ EU/ AUS 1979 [c]
1980: Wayward Child" (live) / "Keychain" - UK/ IRL 1980
1982: Big Guns" / "The Devil Made Me Do It" - UK/ IRL 1982
with Taste
Albums1969: London Invasion (Pontiac Records)
1969: Taste (Polydor)
1970: On the Boards (Polydor)
1971: Live Taste (live album) (Polydor)
1972: Live at the Isle of Wight (live album) (Polydor)
1974: Taste First (BASF)
1994: The Best of Taste (compilation album) (Polydor)
Singles
1968: Blister on the Moon/ Born on the Wrong Side of Time
1969: Born on the Wrong Side of Time/Same Old Story
1970: What's Going On/Railway and Gun
1970: If I Don't Sing I'll Cry/I'll Remember
1972: Wee Wee Baby" / "You've Got to Play" – GER 1972
1982: Blister on the Moon/Sugar Mama/Catfish/On the Boards
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