By Tracy Wright For Dailymail.com
Published: 21:42 BST, 21 May 2019 | Updated: 21:42 BST, 21 May 2019
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He's known for pioneering dance music in the US in the early '90s.
And Moby revealed that Lana Del Rey once rejected his advances while on a date in New York in his new memoir Then It Fell Apart.
The 53-year-old musician wrote that he had high hopes for a night of 'vodka and sex' with the up-and-coming artist who was going by the name Lizzy Grant in 2006.
In the past: Moby revealed that Lana Del Rey once rejected his advances while on a date in New York in his new memoir Then It Fell Apart; seen in May
'We’d kissed at the bar at 4 a.m., just as the place was closing, and I’d asked her to come home with me,' he wrote. 'She’d smiled and said no, she wouldn’t go home with me after just meeting me, but she would happily go on a date if I called her and asked her out.'
Moby — who's real name is Richard Melville Hall — called Lana the next day and they chatted for 30 minutes before setting up a time to get together.
'She was beautiful, smart, and charming; making plans to meet up with her was both what I wanted to do and what my new therapist had told me to do,' he wrote of the then 21-year-old singer.
Full stop: The 53-year-old musician wrote that he had high hopes for a night of 'vodka and sex' with the up-and-coming artist who was going by the name Lizzy Grant in 2006; seen
