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  • Thin Lizzy
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  • Thin Lizzy
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  • Dare_(band)
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  • Musical groups from Dublin (city)
  • Musical sextets
  • Mercury Records artists
  • Musical groups established in 1969
  • Vertigo Records artists
  • Musical groups reestablished in 1996
  • Musical groups disestablished in 2001
  • Musical groups reestablished in 2004
  • Warner Bros. Records artists
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  • Deram Records artists
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  • Irish hard rock musical groups
  • Irish heavy metal musical groups
  • Musical groups disestablished in 1983
  • Parlophone artists
abstract
  • Irish rock band that was formed in February 1970 in Dublin. The band was disbanded on September 4th 1983.Philip Lynott (vocals & bass guitar) was one of the founding members and frontman of the group. He passed away in 1986.During the whole Lizzy existence, they had several guitar players: Eric Bell, Scott Gorham, Brian Robertson, Gary Moore, John Sykes, Snowy White, John Cann, Andy Gee & Midge Ure.Drummer Mark Nauseef replaced Brian Downey on a few gigs.Keyboard players were Eric Wrixton (only first recordings of Lizzy) and Darren Wharton (from Renegade till the end).The most famous and most known line-up was during the '74 - '78 period with Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson on lead guitar.Currently John Sykes & Scott Gorham are touring with their own band under the name of Thin Lizzy, but this is not always appreciated by the old fans. No Lizzy without Philip...
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  • Thin Lizzy are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1969. Two of the founding members, drummer Brian Downey and bass guitarist and vocalist Phil Lynott, met while still in school. Lynott assumed the role of frontman and led them throughout their recording career of twelve studio albums. Thin Lizzy's most successful songs, %22Whiskey in the Jar%22, %22Jailbreak%22 and %22The Boys Are Back in Town%22, were all major international hits which are still played regularly on hard rock and classic rock radio stations. After Lynott's death in 1986, various incarnations of the band have emerged over the years based initially around guitarists Scott Gorham and John Sykes, though Sykes left the band in 2009. Gorham later continued with a new line-up including Downey.Lynott, Thin Lizzy's de facto leader, was composer or co-composer of almost all of the band's songs, and the first black Irishman to achieve commercial success in the field of rock music. Thin Lizzy boasted some of the most critically acclaimed guitarists throughout their history, with Downey and Lynott as the rhythm section, on the drums and bass guitar. As well as being multiracial, the band drew their members not only from both sides of the Irish border but also from both the Catholic and Protestant communities during The Troubles. Their music reflects a wide range of influences, including blues, soul music, psychedelic rock, and traditional Irish folk music, but is generally classified as hard rock or sometimes heavy metal. Rolling Stone magazine describes the band as distinctly hard rock, %22far apart from the braying mid-70s metal pack%22.AllMusic critic John Dougan has written that %22As 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.%22 Van Morrison, Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix were major influences during the early days of the band, and later influences included the pioneering twin lead guitars found in Wishbone Ash and American artists Little Feat and Bob Seger.In 2012, Gorham and Downey decided against recording new material as Thin Lizzy so a new band, Black Star Riders, was formed to tour and produce new releases such as the All Hell Breaks Loose album. Thin Lizzy plan to reunite for occasional concerts.
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  • T. Lizzy
  • Thin Lizzi
  • Thin Lizzie
  • Thin Lizzy (Gary Moore With Phil Lynott)
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  • 1969
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  • 2139
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  • Thin Lizzy
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  • Epic Records
  • Warner Bros. Records
  • Atlantic Records
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  • Rock
  • Hard Rock
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