Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left to right, singer Phil Lynott, drummer Brian Downey and guitarist Eric Bell of Thin Lizzy, on February 23, 1973. (Credit: ...

Irish rock outfit Thin Lizzy spent the 1970s ripping up the rulebook in favor of a harder-edged, more ferocious sound—something the group achieved with captivating slice-of-life lyrics and enrapturing ...

Born in 1949 as the son of an Irish teenager and an Afro-Guyanese immigrant, Philip Parris Lynott was raised by his grandmother in Dublin, where he couldn’t help but stand out as a 6-foot-1 Black man.