FORMER Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore 
was found dead in his Spanish hotel bed yesterday.He was at the luxury Kempinski Resort Hotel in Estepona, Costa del Sol, with a woman.
A post-mortem is expected to be carried out in the nearby city of Malaga. The details surrounding his death have not been made public.
Moore, 58, from Belfast, had been holidaying with a female pal.
A hotel source said: “They went for a stroll along the beach and when they came back Gary and his friend went back to the bar where Gary had a few brandies. He seemed fine when he left around 11pm.”
Moore played with Thin Lizzy whose vocalist Phil Lynott, died in 1986 after a heroin-induced coma.
He became a successful solo artist with a string of top 40 hits, including Parisienne Walkways. He also played with Daily Star chairman Richard Desmond’s charity supergroup The RD Crusaders.
Lizzy’s founding member Brian Downey, said: “He will always be in my thoughts. I can’t believe he’s gone.”
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