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Thin Lizzy: The Rocker

RS: 3of 4 Stars

2006

KulturPhil Lynott called growing up black in Dublin "no worse than having cauliflower ears," but then Thin Lizzy's leader was also tall, slender and insanely charismatic -- the prototype for the Irish rock star. This soulful documentary -- flush with awesome footage from Lizzy's Seventies run and testimonials from the likes of Van Morrison and Bono -- is a portrait of doomed dandy Lynott, one of rock's true one-off immortals.

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