Choosing the 10 Best Thin Lizzy songs is a difficult task. They had a distinct style all their own, featured great players throughout their career and were a powerhouse live act. Most importantly, in ...
The fact is, Phil Lynott never fit in anywhere else besides being a rocker and a renegade. Set aside for the moment that he was a brilliant bassist, vocalist and songwriter. Just look at the dude. As ...
Yet Thin Lizzy were indisputably one of the mightiest rock bands of their era, and their 1978 double-live set “Live and Dangerous” is widely considered one of the best of its kind, although many of ...
Thin Lizzy's classic lineup graphic doppelgangers on the "Jailbreak" cover: Brian Robertson, Brian Downey, Phil Lynott, and Scott Gorham. Credit: Record cover/Art by Jim Fitzpatrick On many a Classic ...
A treasure trove of tapes stashed away by Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott will be released as a boxed set later this year. Twenty six years after the Dublin rocker’s death at the age of 36, more of ...
Looks like 2012 kicked off with a little luck of the Irish. The Belfast Telegraph reported the recent discovery “treasure trove” of up to 700 unreleased recordings by the massively underappreciated ...
Thin Lizzy released perhaps their most underrated and misunderstood album on Nov. 15, 1981. Renegade arrived at a time of great uncertainty for Thin Lizzy, due in part to several issues – ranging from ...
With some two dozen co-writes on Thin Lizzy songs, Scott Gorham must certainly have a favorite. Indeed he does, and it's a tune released 50 years ago today: "She Knows," the opening cut on Nightlife, ...
John Sykes, the electrifying guitarist who rocked the world in legendary bands Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy, has died. He was 65. The rocker’s death was confirmed by both bands on social media Monday, ...
Phil Lynott (1949-1986) embodied contradiction. As portrayed in Cowboy Song, Irish journalist Graeme Thomson's account of his life, Thin Lizzy himself was a family man enamored of behavioral rock star ...
Irish rock outfit Thin Lizzy spent the 1970s ripping up the rulebook in favor of a harder-edged, more ferocious sound—something the group achieved with captivating slice-of-life lyrics and enrapturing ...