Thin Lizzy

Formed: 1970 in Dublin, Ireland
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Disbanded: 1983
Genre: Rock
Styles: Heavy Metal, British Metal, Album Rock, Hard Rock, Pop/Rock
Group Members: Gary Moore, Midge Ure, Phil Lynott, Snowy White, John Sykes, Tommy Aldridge, Eric Bell, Brian Downey, Scott Gorham, Brian Robertson, Darren ...View All
Biography: Despite a huge hit single in the mid-'70s ("The Boys Are Back in Town") and becoming a popular act with hard rock/heavy metal fans, Thin Lizzy are still, in the pantheon of '70s rock bands, underappreciated. Formed in the late '60s by Irish singer/songwriter/bassist Phil Lynott, Lizzy, though not the ...Read full biography
Jailbreak
Released: 1976
Label: Island Def Jam
Critics' Rating:
Thin Lizzy found their trademark twin-guitar sound on 1975's Fighting, but it was on its 1976 successor, Jailbreak, where the band truly took flight. Unlike the leap between Night Life and Fighting, there ...Read full review
Fighting
Released: 1975
Label: Island Def Jam
Critics' Rating:
It's hard not to interpret the "fighting my way back" chorus of the title track on Thin Lizzy's fifth album as the band's way of bouncing back from the uncommonly subdued Night Life. If that record was ...Read full review
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