| rdfs:comment | - Thin Lizzy are a hard rock band who formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1969. The band was originally led by bassist, songwriter and singer Phil Lynott. They are best known for their 1974 songs "Jailbreak" and "The Boys Are Back in Town" as well as their 1975 song "Bad Reputation", all major international hits still played regularly on hard rock and classic rock radio stations. Lynott is one of the few black men to achieve significant success in hard rock. As well as being a multiracial band, members were drawn from both sides of the Irish border and from both Catholic and Protestant communities.
- Thin Lizzy é unha banda irlandesa de hard rock formada en Dublin no ano 1969. A banda estivo lidaerada durante toda a súa carreira polo baixista, vocalista e compositor Phil Lynott, e é coñecida polos seus temas "Whiskey in the Jar", "Jailbreak" e "The Boys Are Back in Town".
- Thin Lizzy es una banda de hard rock, formada en Dublín, Irlanda formada por Phil Lynott junto a Eric Bell, Eric Wrixon y Brian Downey en 1969. Wrixon se fue poco después de la banda, y en 1971 la banda fue a Londres a obtener el éxito que no obtuvieron en Irlanda. Luego firmaron un contrato con Decca Record, al conseguir su primer éxito "Whiskey in the Jar" (canción tradicional irlandesa). Pero la banda no alcanzo un gran éxito, aquí Eric Bell se va de la banda decepcionado. Luego fue reemplazado por Scott Borham y Brian Robertson. Luego del álbum Jailbreak la banda consiguió un éxito total con canciones como Jailbreak y The boys are back in town.
- Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band who formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1969. The band were originally led by bassist, songwriter and singer Phil Lynott. They are best known for their songs "Whiskey in the Jar", "Jailbreak", "The Boys Are Back in Town" and "Bad Reputation", all major international hits still played regularly on hard rock and classic rock radio stations.
- Thin Lizzy are a hard rock band who formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1969. The band was originally led by bassist, songwriter and singer Phil Lynott. They are best known for their 1976 songs "Jailbreak" and "The Boys Are Back in Town" as well as their 1977 song "Bad Reputation", all major international hits still played regularly on hard rock and classic rock radio stations. Lynott is one of the few black men to achieve significant success in hard rock. As well as being a multiracial band, members were drawn from both sides of the Irish border and from both Catholic and Protestant communities.
- Never the toast of critics (the majority writing in the '70s hated hard rock and heavy metal), Lizzy toured relentlessly, building an unassailable reputation as a terrific live band, despite the lead guitar spot becoming a revolving door (Eric Bell, Gary Moore, Brian Robertson, Snowy White, and John Sykes all stood next to Scott Gorham). The records came fast and furious, and despite attempts to repeat the formula that worked like a charm with "Boys," Lynott began writing more ambitious songs and wrapping them up in vaguely articulated concept albums. The large fan base the band had built as a result of "Boys" turned into a smaller, yet still enthusiastic bunch of hard rockers. Adding insult to injury was the rise of punk rock, which Lynott vigorously supported, but made Lizzy look too tra
- Thin Lizzy are a (mostly) Irish rock/metal band originating in 1969, Led by co-founder, bass player/singer and main songwriter Phil Lynott. The core members were Lynott and Drummer Brian Downey, with guitar spots filled by a long list of ever changing names, the longest serving of which is californian guitarist Scott Gorham, who moved to the UK to fill a guitar spot in Supertramp, but was unsuccessful.
- Peel seemed to discover the band in 1971, when he met Phil Lynott and the rest of the band on a ferry between Dun Laoghaire and Holyhead, before the upcoming release of their first record. On the sleevenotes Peel wrote for Thin Lizzy's first Peel Session release, he mentioned: On 14 April 1999, he played a track from the band's sessions album, at the request of Tim from Ash, and admitted:
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| abstract | - Thin Lizzy are a hard rock band who formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1969. The band was originally led by bassist, songwriter and singer Phil Lynott. They are best known for their 1976 songs "Jailbreak" and "The Boys Are Back in Town" as well as their 1977 song "Bad Reputation", all major international hits still played regularly on hard rock and classic rock radio stations. Critic for allmusic.com John Dugan has wrote that "As the band's creative force, Lynott was a more insightful and intelligent writer than many of his ilk, preferring slice-of-life working-class dramas of love and hate influenced by Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, and virtually all of the Irish literary tradition." Van Morrison was a major influence as revealed in an interview with Phil Lynott in the movie Thin Lizzy the Rocker: A Portrait of Phillip Lynott. American groups Little Feat and Bob Seger also influenced Lizzy. Their music covered much territory (including hints of country and traditional folk music), but is generally classified as traditional hard rock or heavy metal. Though others had earlier used similar techniques, Thin Lizzy is widely recognised as one of the first hard rock bands to employ double lead guitar harmony (the twin guitar clash) - a technique pioneered by Wishbone Ash in the UK, whilst independently in the USA by Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers Band. This style was later refined and popularised by bands of the emerging New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden especially. The latter group in particular has praised Thin Lizzy extensively and even covered the song "Massacre" from Lizzy's popular Live and Dangerous album. Examples of this dual guitar harmony technique include "The Boys Are Back in Town" and "Cowboy Song" from Jailbreak. Brian Robertson's unconventional use of the wah-pedal as an extension of the instrument during soloing rather than as a purely rhythmic effect, as described in the Total Accuracy video "Still in Love with the Blues" (featuring Brian Robertson & Stuart Bull), is a distinctive and influential sound. Lynott is one of the few black men to achieve significant success in hard rock. As well as being a multiracial band, members were drawn from both sides of the Irish border and from both Catholic and Protestant communities. Thin Lizzy was ranked #51 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock.
- Never the toast of critics (the majority writing in the '70s hated hard rock and heavy metal), Lizzy toured relentlessly, building an unassailable reputation as a terrific live band, despite the lead guitar spot becoming a revolving door (Eric Bell, Gary Moore, Brian Robertson, Snowy White, and John Sykes all stood next to Scott Gorham). The records came fast and furious, and despite attempts to repeat the formula that worked like a charm with "Boys," Lynott began writing more ambitious songs and wrapping them up in vaguely articulated concept albums. The large fan base the band had built as a result of "Boys" turned into a smaller, yet still enthusiastic bunch of hard rockers. Adding insult to injury was the rise of punk rock, which Lynott vigorously supported, but made Lizzy look too traditional and too much like tired old rock stars. By the mid-'80s, resembling the dinosaur that punk rock wanted to annihilate, Thin Lizzy called it a career. Lynott recorded solo records that more explicitly examined issues of class and race, published a now-out-of-print book of poetry, and sadly, became a victim of his longtime abuse of heroin, cocaine, and alcohol, dying in 1986 at age 35. Since the mega-popular alternative rock bands of the mid-'90s appropriated numerous musical messages from their '70s forebears, the work of Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy will hopefully continue to be seen for the influential rock & roll it is. In 1999, Thin Lizzy reunited with a lineup featuring guitarists Scott Gorman and John Sykes, and keyboardist Darren Wharton, which was rounded out by a journeyman rhythm section of bassist Marco Mendoza and drummer Tommy Aldridge. The quintet's ensuing European tour produced the live album One Night Only, which was released in the summer of 2000 to set the stage for a subsequent American concert tour.
- Thin Lizzy are a hard rock band who formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1969. The band was originally led by bassist, songwriter and singer Phil Lynott. They are best known for their 1974 songs "Jailbreak" and "The Boys Are Back in Town" as well as their 1975 song "Bad Reputation", all major international hits still played regularly on hard rock and classic rock radio stations. Lynott is one of the few black men to achieve significant success in hard rock. As well as being a multiracial band, members were drawn from both sides of the Irish border and from both Catholic and Protestant communities.
- Thin Lizzy é unha banda irlandesa de hard rock formada en Dublin no ano 1969. A banda estivo lidaerada durante toda a súa carreira polo baixista, vocalista e compositor Phil Lynott, e é coñecida polos seus temas "Whiskey in the Jar", "Jailbreak" e "The Boys Are Back in Town".
- Thin Lizzy are a (mostly) Irish rock/metal band originating in 1969, Led by co-founder, bass player/singer and main songwriter Phil Lynott. The core members were Lynott and Drummer Brian Downey, with guitar spots filled by a long list of ever changing names, the longest serving of which is californian guitarist Scott Gorham, who moved to the UK to fill a guitar spot in Supertramp, but was unsuccessful. When he joined the band in 1974, the original guitarist Eric Bell had been and gone, recording the hit single "Whiskey in the Jar", Thin Lizzy's first major success. Joining Scott in the other guitar role was Glaswiegan Brian Robertson, a hot-headed Scottish guitar prodigy, and between them they developed the ground-breaking distinctive twin lead guitar attack which characterizes Thin Lizzy's sound. They finally found international recognition with 1976's Jailbreak, and Thin Lizzy's other hit, "The Boys Are Back In Town". The band led a career that lasted until 1983, when the band split, and all hopes of recording more original material were tragically crushed forever when Phil Lynott died in 1986, aged just 36. Thin Lizzy was a unique combination of hard rocking songs about fighting & cool characters, epic guitar parts & harmonies, and sensitive, thoughtful and wide-ranging songwriting. Thin Lizzy are unfortunately still under-appreciated and lesser known compared to their world-famous '70's and '80's contemporaries (they're still mainly only known for two songs, "Whiskey In The Jar" and "The Boys Are Back In Town"), but in their heyday they developed a reputation for being one of the best live bands in the world and once played to a gigantic crowd on the steps of the Sydney Opera House- Their Live Album "Live And Dangerous" is widely regarded as one of the best live albums ever recorded.
- Thin Lizzy es una banda de hard rock, formada en Dublín, Irlanda formada por Phil Lynott junto a Eric Bell, Eric Wrixon y Brian Downey en 1969. Wrixon se fue poco después de la banda, y en 1971 la banda fue a Londres a obtener el éxito que no obtuvieron en Irlanda. Luego firmaron un contrato con Decca Record, al conseguir su primer éxito "Whiskey in the Jar" (canción tradicional irlandesa). Pero la banda no alcanzo un gran éxito, aquí Eric Bell se va de la banda decepcionado. Luego fue reemplazado por Scott Borham y Brian Robertson. Luego del álbum Jailbreak la banda consiguió un éxito total con canciones como Jailbreak y The boys are back in town.
- Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band who formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1969. The band were originally led by bassist, songwriter and singer Phil Lynott. They are best known for their songs "Whiskey in the Jar", "Jailbreak", "The Boys Are Back in Town" and "Bad Reputation", all major international hits still played regularly on hard rock and classic rock radio stations.
- Peel seemed to discover the band in 1971, when he met Phil Lynott and the rest of the band on a ferry between Dun Laoghaire and Holyhead, before the upcoming release of their first record. On the sleevenotes Peel wrote for Thin Lizzy's first Peel Session release, he mentioned: "The story of my first meeting with Phil Lynott and the boys aboard a ferry, salt caked smokestacks and the rest, between Dun Laoghaire and Holyhead, has been told too many times already. Suffice to say, Thin Lizzy were crossing to England for the first time aboard the same boat as myself, made contact and urged me to listen out for them. ... Throughout the first half of the seventies, they provided a welcome antidote to much of the pretentious hogwash that bedevilled the age ..." The band did eleven sessions for Peel's show and Peel himself invited Phil Lynott to the studio to discuss the band's 'Live And Dangerous' double album and Lynott's solo album on the 29 May 1978 show. After the end of the 70's, Peel seemed to lose interest in the band, although he played Whiskey In A Jar as a Peelenium 1973 choice on 17 November 1999. On 14 April 1999, he played a track from the band's sessions album, at the request of Tim from Ash, and admitted: "I did loads of gigs with Thin Lizzy around the time of these things (the band's Peel sessions) but don't remember a great deal about them. I would love to have millions of amusing anecdotes, you know, about things that we got up, but frankly I would have to make them up, to be honest."
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