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August 17, 2005

Lizzy's Lynott Lives On

Late Thin Lizzy leader honored with hometown statue and concert, Hollywood movie
December 9, 2004

The Boys Are Back in Town

Thin Lizzy
August 20, 2000

This Day in Rock

Phil Lynott

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Renegade

The difference between Thin Lizzy and your run-of-the-mill heavy-metal band has always been bassist Phil Lynott. At his best, Lynott writes with the Gaelic passion of Van Morrison and the street sympathies of Bruce Springsteen, sings with ghetto anger and Irish macho, and commands the Lizzies like...

2009 RS: 2of 5 Stars

1978

1977

1976

1976

Vagabonds Of The Western World

1973

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Biography

The melancholy tear in Phil Lynott's rich voice sets Thin Lizzy far apart from the braying mid-'70s metal pack. Projecting a dissolute sensitivity above dueling lead guitars, this black-Irish bass player chiseled out a distinct, lyrical hard-rock niche for his band. Thin Lizzy's only hit album, Jailbreak, is also its only consistent one. "The Boys Are Back in Town," a lingering hit single in 1976,...

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