The singer known as Moby got his nickname because what famed writer was his great-great-great-granduncle?
Moby made him feel poor and ashamed. According to Hall, his middle name and the nickname "Moby" were given to him by his parents because of an ancestral relationship to "Moby Dick" author Herman Melville: "The basis for Richard Melville Hall—and for Moby—is that supposedly Herman Melville was my great-great-great-grand uncle." Moby began studying music when he was 9 years old, and during the 1980s, Hall played guitar for the hardcore punk band Vatican Commandos. Later in the decade, he was a guitarist for the alternative rock group Ultra Vivid Scene and appeared in the video for their 1989 single "Mercy
The Great Day of His Wrath in 1854 (after Martin's death) by Thomas McLean. together with two other paintings by Martin, "Plains of Heaven" and "The last Judgment" (a group of three 'judgment pictures'). Despite wide public reception, the three paintings were rejected as vulgar by the Royal Academy. In 1945, the painting was purchased by the Tate from Robert Frank. The Great Day of His Wrath The End of the World, commonly known as The Great Day of His Wrath, is an 1851–1853 oil painting on canvas by the English painter John Martin. Leopold Martin, John Martin's son, said that his father found the inspiration