Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 1952 – 6 February 2011), was a Northern Irish musician, most widely recognised as a blues singer and guitarist.
In a career dating back to the 1960s, Moore played with artists including Phil Lynott and Brian Downey during his teens, leading him to memberships with the Irish bands Skid Row and Thin Lizzy on three separate occasions. Moore shared the stage with such blues and rock luminaries as B.B. King, Albert King, Colosseum II, George Harrison and Greg Lake, as well as having a successful solo career. He guested on a number of albums recorded by high profile musicians, including a cameo appearance playing the lead guitar solo on "She's My Baby" from Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3.
Moore started performing at a young age, having picked up a battered acoustic guitar at the age of eight. He got his first quality guitar at the age of 14, learning to play the right-handed instrument in the standard way despite being left-handed. He moved to Dublin in 1968 at the age of 16. His early musical influences were artists such as Albert King, Elvis Presley, The Shadows and The Beatles. Later, having seen Jimi Hendrix and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers in his home town of Belfast, his own style was developing into a blues-rock sound that would be the dominant form of his career in music.
John Clayton Mayer ( /ˈmeɪ.ər/ MAY-ər; (born October 16, 1977) is an American pop and blues rock musician, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. He moved to Atlanta in 1997, where he refined his skills and gained a following, and he now lives in New York City. His first two studio albums, Room for Squares and Heavier Things, did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status. In 2003, he won a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Your Body Is a Wonderland."
Mayer began his career performing mainly acoustic rock, but gradually began a transition towards the blues genre in 2005 by collaborating with renowned blues artists such as B. B. King, Buddy Guy, and Eric Clapton, and by forming the John Mayer Trio. The blues influence can be heard throughout his 2005 live album Try! with the John Mayer Trio and his third studio album Continuum, released in September 2006. At the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in 2007 Mayer won Best Pop Vocal Album for Continuum and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Waiting on the World to Change". He released his fourth studio album, Battle Studies, in November 2009. His fifth album, Born and Raised, was released on May 22, 2012. He has sold over 10 million albums in the U.S. and 20 million albums worldwide.
Plot
20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hell bent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their home town and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub, The World's End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind's. Reaching The World's End is the least of their worries.
Keywords: alien, alien-invasion, apocalypse, blood, blue-blood, car-dealership, decapitation, end-of-the-world, f-word, gore
Good food. Fine ales. Total Annihilation.
Prepare to Get Annihilated
One Night. Six Friends. Twelve Pubs. Total Annihilation.
Gary King: A man of your legendary prowess drinking fucking rain! It's like a lion eating houmous.
Gary King: We'll always have the disableds.::Sam: We'll always have the disableds.
Oliver: WTF, Gary. WTF.::Gary King: What the fuck does WTF mean?::Peter Page: [getting out the cubicle] What the fuck?::Gary King: Ooohh yeah!
Gary King: We're going to see this through to the bitter end. Or... lager end.
Gary King: Get back in your rocket, and fuck off back to Legoland you cunts!
Basil: [after saying blanks can replicate you from saliva on glasses] That's why I drink using a crazy straw. Not so crazy now.
Gary King: What the fuck does WTF mean?
Gary King: Tonight, we will be partaking of a liquid - as we wind our way up the golden mile commencing with an inaugural tankard in the first post, then on to the old familiar - the good companion, the trusty servant, the two-headed dog, the mermaid, the beehive, the king's head, and the hole in the wall for a measure of the same. All before the last bittersweet pint in that most fateful, the world's end, leave a light on good lady, although we may return with a twinkle in our eyes, we will be in truth blind - drunk.
Gary King: And here we go! Just like the Five Musketeers!::Steven Prince: Three musketeers, wasn't it?::Peter Page: Four, if you count d'Artagnan.::Gary King: Well, nobody knows how many there were, really, do they?::Oliver: You do know that "The Three Musketeers" was a fiction, right? Written by Alexandre Dumas?::Gary King: A lot of people are saying that about the Bible these days.::Steven Prince: What, that it was written by Alexandre Dumas?::Gary King: Don't be daft, Steve! It was written by Jesus!::Andrew Knightley: Are we there yet?::Gary King: Let's do this!
Andrew Knightley: I still think nothing that has been suggested in the last 10 minutes beats 'smashy smashy egg men'.
Plot
All-American football player Gary King decides not to graduate instead joining a get rich quick scheme selling bonds. He succeeds but quickly blows his earnings on women and gambling. When his brother suffers the same fate, he agrees to play in a game that features current All-Americans and past stars. The movie features top coaches of the era, as well as the 1931 All America Football Team. Ad campaign: The biggest names in football will appear as part of the cast of this great picture! Remember "The Spirit of Notre Dame?" Well, here's one that has even that great attraction lashed to the mast! More love interest, more thrills, more action, more drama, more appeal, more everything! Plus that cast that will knock your eyes out.
Keywords: american-football