Thin Lizzy

eastmanc said:
Remember Bono saying that Phil would walk around Dublin in his leather pants looking like a rock star before he was a rock star.
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I seem to remember as a young man at the old TV Club in Dublin, watching Moving Hearts and taking a breather as it was totally squashed inside and I’d had a fair bit to drink.
I went upstairs to a balcony at the back of the hall and was watching from there when I felt the presence of someone else beside me.
After a while I glanced beside me to see Phil Lynott standing about three foot from me.
‘How’s it going’ was as much as I managed, when a couple of other lads came up and started the whole ‘you’re Phil Lynott’ crap, mithering him, which he didn't seem to mind. He humoured them.

I left them to it.

Originally from Crumlin, he was in digs in Clontarf opposite Clontarf Castle when he started playing first. He lived along Sutton Strand much later after Lizzy had made it.

I was invited (indirectly) to a party that was held a couple of summers in the 80’s at a house along the Strand. It was an outdoor BBQ.
Bouncers at the gate and all.
Each year as a neighbour Phil would turn up.
He just mingled with everyone else.

Never got near him though as he was always surrounded by young ladies trying their best to impress him.


He was one cool dude. It was effortless to him. Loved by both lads and lasses, or as we say in Dublin young fellas and young wans.

I think people just found him approachable and still knew he was on a different plain of coolness to the rest of us.

Only ever saw them once in Dublin, myself.

Great band.
 
mancity2012_eamo said:
I seem to remember as a young man at the old TV Club in Dublin, watching Moving Hearts and taking a breather as it was totally squashed inside and I’d had a fair bit to drink.
I went upstairs to a balcony at the back of the hall and was watching from there when I felt the presence of someone else beside me.
After a while I glanced beside me to see Phil Lynott standing about three foot from me.
‘How’s it going’ was as much as I managed, when a couple of other lads came up and started the whole ‘you’re Phil Lynott’ crap, mithering him, which he didn't seem to mind. He humoured them.

I left them to it.

Originally from Crumlin, he was in digs in Clontarf opposite Clontarf Castle when he started playing first. He lived along Sutton Strand much later after Lizzy had made it.

I was invited (indirectly) to a party that was held a couple of summers in the 80’s at a house along the Strand. It was an outdoor BBQ.
Bouncers at the gate and all.
Each year as a neighbour Phil would turn up.
He just mingled with everyone else.

Never got near him though as he was always surrounded by young ladies trying their best to impress him.


He was one cool dude. It was effortless to him. Loved by both lads and lasses, or as we say in Dublin young fellas and young wans.

I think people just found him approachable and still knew he was on a different plain of coolness to the rest of us.

Only ever saw them once in Dublin, myself.

Great band.
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Brilliant, love it .
 
Loved Thin Lizzy, saw them many times in my mid teens, usually Free Trade Hall, and one memorable gig at Belle Vue, King's Hall.

I and most of my mates were long haired, and denim n leather types into rock music. . But two good mates were 'trendies' into Jazz Funk with short hair. There was a lot of good banter on each others appearance and music.
One of them was a hairdresser in town, the other worked in Swans music shop on Oldham St too, so often met them after work for a few. (Usually ending up in Brahms & Liszt)

Besides his day job, the Swans worker played keyboards alongside another mate on drums, at Christ The King Catholic Club in Newton Heath on Saturday and Sundays, backing the 'turns'. Think Phoenix Nights, lol. (He did a stint similarly at The Tropicana club on Oxford Rd)
We would often call in on a Sunday to see them and have a pint with them, and cringe at some of the acts.

Then one day, Lynott himself turns up at Swans and tells Darren he wants to add keyboards to Lizzy, and someone had recommended him ..... Next time we see Darren, he is in leather strides and has grown his hair .... 'Jazz Funk, me? Nah!'

Met Lynott many times, always charming, and proud to say that one night, in Oscars bar in town (a story on its own about him in there that night too) I was ribbing him, that being Irish he was bound to be a rag, he called me a 'Blue C*nt'......
 
One of my interests as regards pop/ rock history is serious violence , criminality , corruption , murder etc
Which obviously there's been quite a lot of
I was unaware of this. Brian Robertson, in 1976, nearly killed by someone from Gonzalez who in 1979 had a hit with Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet

www.loudersound.com

What happened the night Brian Robertson got glassed at The Speakeasy

The story of a bloody onstage fight that ended up with the Brian Robertson in hospital and Thin Lizzy’s US tour cancelled
www.loudersound.com www.loudersound.com
 
I've known about that story how Robbo got his hand glassed but never knew it was someone from Gonzalez! They were so unlucky in trying to break America as something would always go wrong and would have to cancel tours. Phil getting hepatitis, Robbo getting glassed and Gary Moore quitting mid USA tour.

Lizzy we're an amazing band and the very first gig I went to as a 11 year old... Manchester Apollo on their farewell tour 1983.
 
MCFCTrick said:
Loved Thin Lizzy, saw them many times in my mid teens, usually Free Trade Hall, and one memorable gig at Belle Vue, King's Hall.

I and most of my mates were long haired, and denim n leather types into rock music. . But two good mates were 'trendies' into Jazz Funk with short hair. There was a lot of good banter on each others appearance and music.
One of them was a hairdresser in town, the other worked in Swans music shop on Oldham St too, so often met them after work for a few. (Usually ending up in Brahms & Liszt)

Besides his day job, the Swans worker played keyboards alongside another mate on drums, at Christ The King Catholic Club in Newton Heath on Saturday and Sundays, backing the 'turns'. Think Phoenix Nights, lol. (He did a stint similarly at The Tropicana club on Oxford Rd)
We would often call in on a Sunday to see them and have a pint with them, and cringe at some of the acts.

Then one day, Lynott himself turns up at Swans and tells Darren he wants to add keyboards to Lizzy, and someone had recommended him ..... Next time we see Darren, he is in leather strides and has grown his hair .... 'Jazz Funk, me? Nah!'

Met Lynott many times, always charming, and proud to say that one night, in Oscars bar in town (a story on its own about him in there that night too) I was ribbing him, that being Irish he was bound to be a rag, he called me a 'Blue C*nt'......
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MCFCTrick said:
Loved Thin Lizzy, saw them many times in my mid teens, usually Free Trade Hall, and one memorable gig at Belle Vue, King's Hall.

I and most of my mates were long haired, and denim n leather types into rock music. . But two good mates were 'trendies' into Jazz Funk with short hair. There was a lot of good banter on each others appearance and music.
One of them was a hairdresser in town, the other worked in Swans music shop on Oldham St too, so often met them after work for a few. (Usually ending up in Brahms & Liszt)

Besides his day job, the Swans worker played keyboards alongside another mate on drums, at Christ The King Catholic Club in Newton Heath on Saturday and Sundays, backing the 'turns'. Think Phoenix Nights, lol. (He did a stint similarly at The Tropicana club on Oxford Rd)
We would often call in on a Sunday to see them and have a pint with them, and cringe at some of the acts.

Then one day, Lynott himself turns up at Swans and tells Darren he wants to add keyboards to Lizzy, and someone had recommended him ..... Next time we see Darren, he is in leather strides and has grown his hair .... 'Jazz Funk, me? Nah!'

Met Lynott many times, always charming, and proud to say that one night, in Oscars bar in town (a story on its own about him in there that night too) I was ribbing him, that being Irish he was bound to be a rag, he called me a 'Blue C*nt'......
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Is the Darren that you mentioned above, actually Darren Wharton who became a member of Thin Lizzy ??
It mentioned on Wiki that he is from Failsworth, so it's not a million miles away from Christ The King in Newton Heath.
Another well known fact regarding Phil Lynott is that he was married to Caroline Crowther,who was the daughter of Leslie Crowther ( Cracker Jack etc.).
But less well known is that Caroline had a twin sister called Liz Crowther,who was an actress and played the part of Sonia in the early 1980s private eye drama, Shoestring,with Trevor Eve in the lead role.
 
mikeyboy said:
I've known about that story how Robbo got his hand glassed but never knew it was someone from Gonzalez! They were so unlucky in trying to break America as something would always go wrong and would have to cancel tours. Phil getting hepatitis, Robbo getting glassed and Gary Moore quitting mid USA tour.

Lizzy we're an amazing band and the very first gig I went to as a 11 year old... Manchester Apollo on their farewell tour 1983.
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I was there too. They did two gigs that year at the Apollo. Saw them about 5 times between 1981 to 1983
 
jimharri said:
I get the impression that they were underrated by people who weren't fans of them. You never seem to see them getting mentioned when people talk about "legendary bands". Excellent band. And Phil liked to live the rock n' roll lifestyle!
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Totally underrated.
 
manclad said:
Is the Darren that you mentioned above, actually Darren Wharton who became a member of Thin Lizzy ??
It mentioned on Wiki that he is from Failsworth, so it's not a million miles away from Christ The King in Newton Heath.
Another well known fact regarding Phil Lynott is that he was married to Caroline Crowther,who was the daughter of Leslie Crowther ( Cracker Jack etc.).
But less well known is that Caroline had a twin sister called Liz Crowther,who was an actress and played the part of Sonia in the early 1980s private eye drama, Shoestring,with Trevor Eve in the lead role.
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Yes, he was a Failsworth lad ,we were from Newton Heath. (He now lives in North Wales)
 
jimharri said:
I get the impression that they were underrated by people who weren't fans of them. You never seem to see them getting mentioned when people talk about "legendary bands". Excellent band. And Phil liked to live the rock n' roll lifestyle!
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I think that's right. I bought loads of vinyl albums as a 16 year old, but not Chinatown, which had a couple of great singles on it.
 
mexico1970 said:
Thin Lizzy were brilliant but were of there time although they really did knock out a fair few iconic tracks.

It's hard to judge nowadays because if it doesn't smell of peaches and or is some sort of gangsta shit then it isn't getting a mention.
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Pretty much timeless I would say. Phil looked so cool. You could put him in any rock band today and wouldn’t look out of place
 
Me and the wife were trying to decide on a name for our 2nd daughter who was born in July 1983.
And then one day ,as I was driving from Bolton to Manchester , Sarah came on the radio, and I decided that was the name for her.
And I believe that Phil and Caroline's daughter is also called Sarah.
That is also a brilliant song, particularly the video and the interaction between Phil and Scott Gorham.
PinkFinal said:
I think Killer On the Loose is one of the greatest rock songs ever
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