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Philip Parris Lynott ( / ˈlaɪnɒt /, LIE-not; 20 August 1949 – 4 January 1986) was an Irish musician, songwriter, and poet. He was the co-founder, lead vocalist, bassist, and primary songwriter for the hard rock band Thin Lizzy.
Phil Lynott is best remembered as the founder of the hard rock band, Thin Lizzy. As part of the band, he delivered numerous hit albums including ‘Thin Lizzy’ (1971), ‘Shades of a Blue Orphanage’ (1972), ‘Vagabonds of the Western World’ (1973), ‘Nightlife’ (1974), and ‘Fighting’ (1975).
Jan 4, 2021 · Philip Parris Lynott, born to a Brazilian father and an Irish mother, played the bars of Dublin with Skid Row and Orphanage before settling on a Thin Lizzy line-up featuring Eric Bell on guitar and mainstay drummer Brian Downey at the start of the seventies.
Jan 2, 2016 · Phil Lynott, the fatherless child, never grew old and withered. But he never stopped thinking of himself as an orphan.
Philip Parris " Phil " Lynott (20 August 1949 – 4 January 1986) was an Irish musician. He was born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England and raised in Dublin, Ireland from age four. His mother was businesswoman Philomena Lynott. He was a bass guitar player and singer.
Aug 31, 2021 · The illegitimate product of an affair between his Irish mother Philomena Lynott and Brazilian father Cecil Parris, Phil was born in West Bromwich in 1949. He was four when Philomena sent him to Dublin to live with his grandmother, Sarah Lynott, while she stayed in England and worked.
Philip Parris Lynott was an Irish musician, songwriter, and poet. He was the co-founder, lead vocalist, bassist, and primary songwriter for the hard rock band Thin Lizzy.
Jun 6, 2022 · As a guitarist for Thin Lizzy from 1974–1983, Scott Gorham served as the right-hand man to the band’s charismatic and talented frontman, lead singer/bassist Phil Lynott.
Jan 2, 2016 · The Thin Lizzy founder – Ireland’s first bona-fide rock star – died on January 4, 1986. Friends recall the man they knew. Thin Lizzy: Phil Lynott at the Hammersmith Odeon, in London, in 1976 ...
Aug 24, 2020 · Philip Parris Lynott was born on 20th August 1949 in West Bromwich, near Birmingham. The son of Philomena Lynott, a white Irish Catholic and Cecil Parris from Brazil, Phil was initially brought up in Moss Side, Manchester and moved to Ireland whilst still at school.
Feb 20, 2016 · Philip’s drug-fuelled collapse from brilliant and perfectionist songwriter with a phenomenal work-rate into musical irrelevance and allied personal failure is laid out in chilly detail.
Jan 4, 2024 · First, John Sykes was offered a gig in Whitesnake by David Coverdale, who was impressed by him when Lizzy and Whitesnake played together at that final German tour gig. “John saw an opportunity,” Stanway added. And probably an escape from the madness that was becoming life with Phil Lynott.
Phil Lynott was born on August 20, 1949 in West Bromwich, Birmingham, England, UK. He was an actor and composer, known for A Knight's Tale (2001), The Expendables (2010) and Rush (2013). He was previously married to Caroline Crowther. He died on January 4, 1986 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK.
As leader of Thin Lizzy, Phil Lynott led the most heroic rock band of a generation. Flanked by their trademark twin guitar assault, Lynott’s heart, soul and poetic songwriting made “the squadron” one of the most vital rock and roll groups of all time.
History. Pre-formation. Two of the founding members of Thin Lizzy, bass guitarist and vocalist Phil Lynott and drummer Brian Downey, met while at school in Dublin in the early 1960s.
Jan 4, 2021 · On January 4, 1986, Phil Lynott, the charismatic frontman of Thin Lizzy, died of pneumonia and heart failure due to septicaemia, in the intensive care unit of Salisbury Infirmary. Lynott was just 36 years old.
Phil Lynott: Songs For While I'm Away is a 2020 documentary film about the life of singer-songwriter Phil Lynott and his career with Thin Lizzy. It aired on BBC Two on 23 October 2020 and was directed by Emer Reynolds. It features archival footage and testimonials from peers about Lynott's magnetism as a performer and his brilliance as a musician.
Phil Lynott. Along with Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen, Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott was one of the first to merge poetry with rock music. Philip Parris Lynott was born in 1949 (his father…. Read Full Biography.
Dec 18, 2020 · Phil Lynott: Scott Gorham formed a lasting friendship with his Thin Lizzy bandmate. Photograph: Jack Kay/Express/Hulton/Getty. "I've never seen an Irish person that patriotic about his country...
Lynott is best known as the bassist, vocalist, songwriter and front-man of the band, Thin Lizzy. He launched a solo career in 1980, and fronted the band Grand Slam from 1984–1985, before returning to his solo career in late-1985; shortly before his death.
Mar 31, 2016 · As a lifelong season ticket holder of Crystal Palace FC, he is completely incapable of uttering the word ‘Br***ton’. We got an advance look at the Thin Lizzy legend's official biography. Here's what we found out...
Phil Lynott was the iconic lead vocalist of the band Thin Lizzy and the writer of global hit song ‘The Boys Are Back In Town’. The Irish singer, musician and songwriter was born in the West Midlands, but grew up in Dublin with his grandparents.
Dec 21, 2023 · In 1985, rock stars were not protected by an army of public relations professionals. If you knew where to find them you could talk to them, and if you happened to work for a fledgling TV music show, you could invite them to appear.
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