#Philip Lynott

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Thin Lizzy - The Sun Goes Down

Phil Lynott

August 20th, 1949 - January 4th, 1986

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Thursday, March 9: Thin Lizzy, “The Holy War” [ENCORE]

The Today’s Metal Tune tumblr launched March 3, 2014.  To celebrate 9 years of METAL, this week we are revisiting some past favorites, showcasing memorable deep cuts from legendary and semi-legendary acts. A huge THANK YOU to everyone who’s followed, liked, reblogged and commented over the years, there is still a lot more metal to come…

R.I.P. Philip Lynott (1949-1986)

“The Holy War” was the sweeping and majestic epic on Thin Lizzy’s Thunder and Lightning, even though it was relatively brisk at 5 minutes.  Lizzy’s 1983 swansong was considered their most overtly metallic album, and not unfairly so: “Cold Sweat” was easily the heaviest thing they ever recorded.  “The Holy War” was not quite as metallic, but it married Phil Lynott’s masterful songwriting with the band’s newfound aggression- over a throbbing pulse was a classic Lizzy riff stacked with both harmony and might, while John Sykes let rip one of his trademark awesome solos.  Throughout it all, the swagger and class that made Thin Lizzy one of the greatest hard rock bands of all time remained in full force. Even as the band was nearing the end, even as the drugs and exhaustion had long since taken over, and even as most of the world had given up on them, Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy still had some life left, and could still take on all comers, and “The Holy War” was a rousing final statement of intent.

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Mick Wall: Paranoid: Black Days with Sabbath & Other Horror Stories (1999)

This book contains one of my favorite descriptions of the music business:

"A job in the music biz sounds like a dream come true when you're working at the record store and most of your pathetic salary is going to buying the stuff you're supposed to be selling. But there are no such things as 'jobs' in the music business; there are only lives. To really make it, you have to give up your whole life to it. Leave behind whoever you were when you last bought records for fun, and become someone different. You have to separate yourself from the audience and go backstage and once you went backstage and saw what little there was to see, you could never believe anything you saw on a stage, or on TV, or in a newspaper ever again. Not unless you put it there first, of course. And then you could believe anything, revelling in how magnificently untrue it all was, and what a clever little fucker you were."

Paranoid: Black Days with Sabbath & Other Rock Icons obviously addresses the music industry and artists ranging from Black Sabbath, to Stevie Nicks, to Frank Zappa, to Guns n' Roses, but this is really the story of longtime Kerrang! writer Mick Wall's heroin addiction, which he describes in agonizing, stomach-churning detail, until he finally overcomes it.

What you need to know about Wall is that few career rock critics actually, you know, CRITICIZE their subjects -- certainly not as brazenly as he does -- instead of mincing words or outright doing their bidding, lest they lose that insider access to their very subjects.

This is a guy Axl Rose immortalized in "Get in the Ring" for daring to print (or misprint, according to Axl) unflattering opinions, so if you see an artist bio written by Mick Wall, I can almost assure you’ll get some insight into the actual human being -- warts and all -- inside your idols.

Oh, and you may just get some insight into the business of music, along the way …

Featured Records:

Guns n' Roses: "Sweet Child o' Mine" (1988)

Thin Lizzy: Chinatown, (1980)

Ozzy Osbourne: Live EP (1982)

Black Sabbath: Mob Rules (1981)

Frank Zappa: You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 - Sampler (1988)

Buy from: Amazon

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" I tasted freedom and I really liked it "

Philo would be 75 today ... let that sink in

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Phil Lynott performing

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The first of the two “Vibe For Philo” concerts that I attended in Dublin, January 1997.

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Nancy and Sid

Photo shoot of Sid and Nancy at Phil Lynott's house, Cricklewood, North London, summer 1978.

"When I shared a house with Phil Lynott from Thin Lizzy there were often musicians around, that veritable duo Cook and Jones from the Sex Pistols were frequent visitors. Sid and Nancy came over with them a couple of times, they did not behave like they did in public, they were well behaved and polite, they loved watching black and white Elvis Presley movies on Philip's video recorder, which was a rarity back then. Some nights we would go to bed whilst they were still watching the TV, I would go downstairs in the morning and they would be gone but the living room would be clean and tidy, they had even emptied the ashtrays, not exactly what you would expect them to do. They were always respectful to Philip although Sid was not really interested in getting tips from him on bass playing, one night I asked them to pose for pictures in our bathroom, they duly obliged and the photo appeared on the front page of the NME." - Melky Davis

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PHILIP LYNOTT ‼️

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Late 1970s - Freddie Mercury and Phil Lynott, Thin Lizzy band

- Philip Parris Lynott ( 20 August 1949 - 4 January 1986) was an Irish musician and songwriter. His group was Thin Lizzy: founding member, principal songwriter, lead vocalist and bassist -

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Philip Lynot was born on this day, August 20th, in 1949. He is best known as lead singer and bassist for Thin Lizzy.

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𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗 𝙻𝚒𝚣𝚣𝚢, 𝚆𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚔𝚎𝚢 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙹𝚊𝚛 𝚘𝚗 𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚑 𝚃𝚅 𝟷𝟿𝟽𝟸

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Philip Lynott ‎– "The Lost Recordings" 10/08/2006

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Philip Parris Lynott