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Underrated Who: The Most Overlooked Song From Each Album Thanks in part to every CSI show, Pete Townshend’s best-known songs have been imprinted on the brains of millions of Americans. But for every "Who Are You,” "Wont Get Fooled Again," "Baba ORiley" and "I Can See for Miles," there are 100 other little wonders. From the band’s first ’60s LPs (Hey, remember when the Who were R&B mods?) to 2019s surprisingly strong  Who, we dig into the most underrated track from every Who studio alb...

I LAUGHED out loud when I heard the US Army had been using songs by the likes of Thin Lizzy, Metallica and The Offspring to take on the Taliban in Afghanistan. Special forces are said to be flushing out rebels from an isolated farming community by booming loud rock music up to two miles from special speakers in their tanks. Apparently, the Taliban particularly dislike The Offspring’s Pretty Fly For A White Guy, The Boys Are Back In Town by Thin Lizzy and Metallica’s Nothing Else Matte...

A plaque commemorating the childhood home of Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott has been unveiled in Dublin. Peter Lynott was among a small group of well-wishers, including Hot Press editor Niall Stokes, local councillor Vincent Jackson and current residents Donna O’Reilly and Don Sweeney, who raised the small blue curtain at the front of the home in Leighlin Road, Crumlin, south Dublin. Also on hand was documentary film maker Emer Reynolds whose film on the rock legend’s life Songs For While ...

Updated / Friday, 18 Dec 2020 09:58 Peter Lynott at the unveiling of new plaque in honour of his nephew, Phil A Dublin City Council commemorative plaque to Phil Lynott has been unveiled at the house in Crumlin, Dublin, where the late Thin Lizzy front man where grew up. Phil’s uncle Peter Lynott, Emer Reynolds, director of upcoming Phil Lynott documentary Songs for While I’m Away, and Cllr Vincent Jackson were present at the unveiling of the plaque in his honour on his childhood home on Le...

People often talk about the impact Irish musicians have had on our national self-confidence over the years, whether it’s U2’s dragon-slaying in America, Enya’s sonic ubiquity in the late 1980s, or The Boomtown Rats’ first appearance on Top of the Pops. But before any of them, and long before the dreaded boy bands, there was Philo. From the moment Thin Lizzy first appeared on Top of the Pops in 1973 having scored an unlikely hit with the traditional song Whiskey in the Jar, Phil Lynott...

Open share drawer The band’s new live double LP is an exceptionally accomplished and generous look back at their evolution from shy indie darlings to touring powerhouse. Its been 24 years since Belle and Sebastian emerged from the Glasgow underground, clutching a surfeit of near-perfect songs. Their classic first and second LPs, If You’re Feeling Sinister, established frontman and principal songwriter Stuart Murdoch as a generational talent, a writer who intuitively wedded the forens...

Billy Corgan playing Wembley Arena in 2018 Credit: Burak Cingi On September 4 1992, the British music paper Melody Maker ran a live review of The Smashing Pumpkins’ hometown show at the Metro, in Chicago, in which the then-influential writer Everett True called Billy Corgan, the band’s singer and songwriter, “a media slut [and] a corporate whore in the lowest and most pitifully sycophantic way.”  He went on to say that Corgan “doesn’t have a trace of originality, of poetry, of soul...

It didnt seem real that Thin Lizzy would be no more:the magic of Phil Lynott  Irish director Emer Reynolds has produced an impressive homage to her hero  Songs for While I’m Away: Phil Lynott and Brian Robertson and performing live onstage. Picture: Fin Costello/Redfern Fri, 25 Dec, 2020 - 20:00 Esther McCarthy Emer Reynolds can still vividly remember the emotion in the venue as she watched Thin Lizzy’s last-ever Irish gig. It was the spring of 1983 in Dublin’s RDS, and as the band pla...

This Film Shows You The Real Man: Meet The Irish Director Of New Phil Lynott Documentary Listen to this episode Share this article Lyn-ott or line-ott? Phil, Phillip or Philo? A very ambitious and driven businessman or a lost soul taken from us too soon? 2021 will mark the 35th anniversary of the death of one of Irelands most prolific musicians, Phillip Lynott and a new Irish-made documentary is exploring the life of the Thin Lizzy front man through his own words. Emer Reynolds, who is a massiv...

To the world he was a rock icon, the man whose songs put Ireland on the music map before tragically succumbing to the downsides of fame. But to Peter Lynott, Philip was the nephew who was more like a brother, the mischievous but modest boy he grew up with in Dublin before watching in awe as he brought his music to the world. Peter is one of several family members and close friends who remembers the Thin Lizzy frontman in the forthcoming movie Phil Lynott: Songs For While Im Away. The poignant ...