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“Phil wasn’t supposed to die at all. He was pretty much the Iron Man,” remembers guitarist Scott Gorham. It will be 35 years next month since Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott tragically died from heart failure, and yet his legacy is still very much alive. The documentary film Songs for While I’m Away offers insights into the life and music of one of Ireland’s greatest rock stars, and will be released on St Stephen’s Day. The Dublin native penned iconic floor fillers such as The Boys are Back in Town and Dancing in the Moonlight, but one of the few people to know him up close an...

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 Leighlin Road, Crumlin. Peter Lynott, who was only a few years Phil’s senior, welcomed the decision ...

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 looked and sounded like a megastar. The boy from Crumlin in Dublin hit the ground running, grabbing...

'It didn't 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 played some of their most memorable songs, the tears started to fall. She wasn’t the only one.