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WHILE most teenagers grab their phones at every free moment and hit social media hard, a 17-year-old singer-songwriter’s default setting sees her reach for her ukulele. Musical inspiration comes to Molly Jervis from many areas; it could be a pal who came to stay but spent more time on her iPhone than talking to Molly, or an unwanted suitor, fake-tanned friends or a dearly departed great-grandmother. When inspiration strikes, very soon afterwards a new song appears, and her latest creati...

Statues are problematic. We throw them up for the great and the good, but they all too easily paper over the bad traits and dirty bibs from which none of us are immune. These are the very things that make the person who is being venerated in bronze, a human rather than a symbol, and if we are able to relate to them on that level, then it only makes their accomplishments all the more incredible. I thought a lot about monuments watching this documentary portrait of Dublin rock icon Phil Lynott b...

Phil Lynott film director on the surprising revelations in new documentary The rocker never hid, played down, or was shy about his love for Dublin Phil Lynott Singer of Thin Lizzy singing on stage playing guitar Want the latest breaking news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our free newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign Up! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations ...

8 min read With input from the late Dublin rock star’s close friends and family, Emer Reynolds’s new film, Songs for While I’m Away, puts forward a different narrative about the Thin Lizzy frontman Most of us have been saying Philip Lynott’s name wrong. Even Emer Reynolds, director of an entertainingly celebratory new film about him, Songs for While I’m Away, struggles with the actual pronunciation. “I can’t get my brain rewired,” she says. “Me an...

LOMA VISTA Recording in Hollywood with Sturgill Simpson in the producer’s chair, the Midwest farmer’s daughter tried her hand at a West Coast pop album for her third LP. Rather than country confessionals, then, here were 10 songs taking in Heartbreakers-esque new wave, gospel and prime Fleetwood Mac. Complete with a more oblique, lyrical voice from Price, the result was another step forward for a musician who respects tradition but has never been shackled by it. 49 GWENIFER RAYMOND TOMPKINS...

Director Emer Reynolds Starring Phil Lynott, Scott Gorham, Adam Clayton, John Kelly, Huey Lewis, James Hetfield, Jim Fitzpatrick, Cathleen Howard-Lynott, Sarah Lynott, Caroline Taraskevics Emer Reynolds presents a poetic and loving portrait of the Thin Lizzy hero in Phil Lynott: Songs for While Im Away but glosses over the full story Did anyone ever have a bad word to say about Phil Lynott? Well, how could anyone have a bad word to say about Phil Lynott? Seemingly the only black kid in Irelan...

The year of 2020 has been an abnormal one for all of us and, for musicians, being consigned to the house for an extended period of time was especially unusual. With 2021 on the horizon, Rolling Stone has been conducting year-in-review styled interviews where Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich recently summed up his year, naming the album he listened to the most, among other things. While Metallica remained relatively active with the release of the  S&M2 live album and concert film — the band film...

Even those of us who lived through Phil Lynott’s high period have trouble believing such a man ever existed. Internationally acknowledged Irish rock stars were, in the years before U2 and the Boomtown Rats, as rare as internationally acknowledged Irish Starfleet commanders. In that depressingly monocultural era, his mixed-race background only added to the implausibility. And the records he made with Thin Lizzy still sound excellent. Johnny the Fox and Jailbreak merged American street life ...

Rolling Stone Year in Review: So, How Was Your 2020, Lars Ulrich? The Godfather movies, Rage Against the Machine, and Matthew McConaughey’s memoir got the Metallica drummer through an unexpected year By is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. Metallica had booked gigs all around the world, including several summer festival he...

Quiz: How well do you know these obscure Christmas songs? Get Behind Me, Santa! By Órla Ryan Monday 21 Dec 2020, 10:00 PM Dec 21st 2020, 10:00 PM 36,739 Views 8 Comments CHRISTMAS WOULDN’T BE Christmas without music. The same old favourites are played on repeat in the run-up to 25 December, but how well do you know these lesser-played or, i...