Thin Lizzy fans are long familiar with the video portion of this show which was released over a decade ago under the title "The Boys are Back in Town". For anyone not familiar, this show captures Thin Lizzy on one of the final dates of their Live & Dangerous tour, playing a free show on the steps of the Sydney Opera House. The show took place on October 29, 1978 and Lizzy played in front of an estimated crowd of 100,000. This is one of the more short-lived lineups of the band but they [...]
Filed under: News Tom Hill, WireImage Before his death in 1986, Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott gave an unidentified caretaker 150 tapes of unreleased music. Now, the Irish Independent reports, some of the nearly 700 songs included in that stash will finally see the light of day, as Universal is prepping a new Thin Lizzy box set due out later this year. "This is an absolutely stunning find," project [...]
This is a rockin' Christmas track you can wish along to! "In December 1979, The Greedies released their debut single, "A Merry Jingle". It was backed by "A Merry Jangle". The band consisted of Steve Jones and Paul Cook, ex-Sex Pistols, and three members of Thin Lizzy; Phil Lynott, Brian Downey and Scott Gorham."
This holiday season there are some very cool presents for the heavy rock fan in your life (i.e. yourself, your dad, older brother, the dude you buy weeed from behind the gas station). Deep Purple has a killer looking 2LP/2CD collection of all their BBC sessions and there's a box set of all the good Whitesnake albums (meaning the ones up to 1982). But number one on everyone's wish list should be this monster 6CD/1DVD Thin Lizzy box set of all their BBC recordings. Jeezus, these guys were busy! Thin Lizzy was pumping out albums on [...]
To me, it was inconceivable. Thin Lizzy without Phil Lynott could be a lot of things, but Thin Lizzy wasn't one of em. A cover band. A tribute, perhaps. but not Thin Lizzy . Not the real thing. Well, Phil can never be replaced. He remains one of the most galvanizing, mercurial figures in rock history. But the new version of Thin Lizzy playing his music are good. Damn good. Twenty five years have passed since Phil's untimely death. [...]
A rousing rock show by an underrated artist.
The early part of 1978 was a prolific period for members of Thin Lizzy. The late January / early February sessions yielded most of Black Rose (1979) along with tracks that appeared on Gary Moore's solo disc Back on the Streets and Phil's Solo in Soho CD. To echo the same thing that I said about the Bad Reputation deluxe edition, the Andy Pierce remaster sounds great and one can clearly hear all of the subtleties and dynamics within the music. It has been years since I've heard [...]
Thin Lizzy's Bad Reputation is the latest in an on-going series of deluxe reissues from the band. Breaking from the last set of reissues, this disc doesn't include a second bonus disc but rather appends six bonus tracks to the original disc's nine tracks to take the total running time up to 58 minutes. (Strangely, this reissue was originally announced as coming with a nine-track bonus CD). Bad Reputation was originally released in 1977 and the band benefited from a switch to producer Tony Visconti as he captured critical elements [...]
Clisson - Our top story tonight: Phil Lynott is still dead. Yes, I just referenced a 36 year old Chevy Chase joke. Not exactly the most topical, but then neither are Thin Lizzy . The Irish rockers recently reunited sans their departed frontman and were playing at Hellfest , a metal festival situated just outside of the small French town of Clisson. Billing themselves as a tribute to Lynott and featuring a mix of original members and new additions, this new version of Thin Lizzy seems pretty clearly to be an exercise in nostalgia, both for the fans [...]
News According to Independent.ie, Galway, Ireland-based sculptor Macdaragh Lambe — who made newspaper headlines in 2003 when he was revealed as THIN LIZZY legend Phil Lynott's only son — saw his father's band perform for the first time at Slane Castle in Ireland on May 28.
Johnny The Fox was was Thin Lizzy's second release in 1976, and seventh disc overall, which which was written after Phil Lynott was sidelined during the band's US tour with Rainbow with a serious bout with hepatitis. Joe Elliott commented in the disc's liner notes that he felt this disc was better than Jailbreak but, for whatever reason, the disc didn't seem to make an impact in the US. After listening to Johnny the Fox now thirty-five years after its original release, the disc is more introspective than Jailbreak [...]
I'm a huge Thin Lizzy fan but I've really started to dislike that various band members won't let the band 'die' a graceful death. It isn't that I've given up on the band but I really believe that the Thin Lizzy name should have been put to rest with the "The Boy is Back in Town" show in Dublin in 2005. Going from memory, at the time of the tribute show Snowy White (guitar) made some comments that Thin Lizzy's time was over and he didn't need to be rehashing the band's old material (you would think I [...]
News Previously unreleased portraits of late THIN LIZZY frontman Phil Lynott form part of a new display at the National Portrait Gallery at St Martin's Place in London, England.
News According to IrishTimes.com, the mother of the late THIN LIZZY legend Phil Lynott made her first public appearance last night with the two siblings he had never met.
Thin Lizzy's 1976 album Jailbreak seemed to be one of those seminal albums that everyone had in the late 70's and the band won over a lot of fans on their 1977 tour down the East Coast (with Gary Moore on guitar, no less) with Queen. Disc One is the remastered nine track (36 minutes) Jailbreak album. There is an internet debate going on over whether this remaster was done last year by Andy Pearce and Matt Wortham (as per the CD booklet) or whether that version was scrapped at the last minute [...]
News A host of Irish and international stars have come together in a Hot Press special issue, marking the 25th anniversary of the death of the THIN LIZZY frontman.
THIS JUST IN: The Philip Lynott Exhibition, the biggest ever collection of memorabilia, song lyrics, exhibits, paintings, tributes and photographs of the late rock legend, is due to launch on 4th March in Dublin. 2011 marks the 25th anniversary of the death of the Thin Lizzy singer, who died in 1986, and to pay tribute to the anniversary year, Hot Press magazine is mounting a major [...]
Filed under: Twisted Tales Jorgen Angel, Redferns / Getty Images They were hardly your typical Valentines. On Feb. 14, 1980, Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott married his longtime girlfriend, Caroline Crowther. Crowther's father, Leslie, was a beloved British comedian whose claim to fame was his role on the long-running, amazingly insensitive BBC series 'The Black and White Minstrel Show.' Crowther was white; Lynott, of course, was black. Or at least he was of mixed [...]
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