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The new Thin Lizzy-themed audio/video collection pairing the 2020 documentary Phil Lynott: Songs for While I'm Away with the archival concert film and album Thi
The story of Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy is lovingly (but honestly) and expertly told in a new documentary on the man and his music.
Phil Lynott, lead singer of Thin Lizzy, was born on August 20, 1949. Born in England to an Irish mother and Guyanese father, Lynott went to live with his grandmother in Dublin at the age of four. He joined his first band, the Black Eagles, in the early 60s. At this time, he befriended Brian
A 12-year-old boy from Wesley is on the cusp of hirsute glory.
Although his career was almost 20 years, he was gone too soon. There’s no telling what he would’ve done throughout the remainder of the 1980s or what his band Thin Lizzy would’ve evolved into. The band played bluesy, street-wise hard rock for most of the 1970s while their final album—and my favorite from Thin Lizzy—Thunder and Lightning was their step into heavy metal territory. In each album, Phil Lynott maintained his cool storytelling in tales of drug abuse, crime, love and just life in general. For recommended songs, I’m not going to include their best-known song “The Boys Ar...