Gorham said the band was under ‘fear and pressure’ as they wrote the music for their 1976 album, 'Jailbreak' ...

And in the late 1970s, the Irish band Thin Lizzy was wondering whether they would join this ill-fated group of musicians who ...

Thin Lizzy's first albums for Decca – 1971's self-titled debut and the following year's Shades of a Blue Orphanage – had both ...

How the jubilant hit about “four guys in this gang who traveled around the world” is still a sensation five decades later.

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 ...

Thin Lizzy's classic lineup graphic doppelgangers on the "Jailbreak" cover: Brian Robertson, Brian Downey, Phil Lynott, and Scott Gorham. Credit: Record cover/Art by Jim Fitzpatrick On many a Classic ...

But in the case of Thin Lizzy, both are appropriate. And yet, even at their commercial peak in the late 70s, there was a ...

Classic rock is about heavy hooks, power chords and tight harmonies. But it’s also about letting loose and enjoying the good times. And there’s no better time for that than Friday evening, when we ...

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.

Thin Lizzy’s 1972 recording of the traditional Irish folk song “Whiskey in the Jar” is one of their best-known tunes and a staple of St. Patrick’s Day playlists everywhere. The song actually dates ...

Thin Lizzy is a band whose music has been played for decades, but there's something about the group many don't know. It's ...

Phil Lynott (1949-1986) embodied contradiction. As portrayed in Cowboy Song, Irish journalist Graeme Thomson's account of his life, Thin Lizzy himself was a family man enamored of behavioral rock star ...