Alan Moore (drummer)

Alan "Skip" Moore (born 1 January 1950) is a British musician who is best known for his time as drummer of the heavy metal band Judas Priest.

Moore was already active in the Birmingham rock, blues, folk and country scene, and played with numerous bands, including The Young Casuals, The Other Lot, The Outer Light, Gabriel Oak, Glad Stallion, Tendency Jones and Pendulum.

He left in 1972 to join the Birmingham country rock band Sundance, with whom he recorded the album Rain, Steam, Speed (1974),[2] and the single "Coming Down".

His first show after re-joining was in October 1975 at Slough College, London, during which guitarist Glenn Tipton introduced "our new drummer Skip" who "only had a few hours of rehearsal".

In the official biography The Story of Judas Priest: Defenders of the Faith, the author Neil Daniels said that, at the time it was written, Moore was the only former member of the band whom he could not trace at all.