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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Rock history is full of stories about songs that only became hit records after a few strange twists of fate — a rich tradition that apparently includes Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back in Town." "Boys" ...

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 ...