I remember hearing about him dying. Though I wasn't a big Thin Lizzy fan at the time. In the past few years I have become one.

RIP The Rocker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EjMLfa-13w

Thanks for the thread.
I wasn't born in the Lizzy days but from just reading about him and watching videos I've been so fascinated by his story and character. And of course the music.
Wild one

I saw Thin Lizzy in 1978 at the Empire Pool, Wembley with the Horslips.

Phil was such a excellent songwriter. There is so much melody in the songs and they sounded much stronger and rawer live. It's worth listening to 'Live and Dangerous' if nothing else.

'Don't Believe a Word'

My son is a real fan but he never got to hear Phil play live.

Saw then twice in the 70's once at the Marquee the other at the Rainbow I suspect it was about 1974

This is one group I never had the privilege of doing so but would have LOVED to have seen live. I've got their "Live And Dangerous" album on the ipod and its just brilliant! I'm sure its got plenty of overdubs/studio additions etc as most allegedly 'live' albums inevitably do, but its brilliant none the less. Phil Lynott left this world way to early, it would have been fascinating to see how he would have developed and what music he'd (possibly) still be making if he was around today, or indeed over the last 30 years since his departure.

Have just been thinking about this. It's still very sad, however, what a legacy he left us with.

While Lynott's image, songwriting and all round cool guy persona went into making Thin Lizzy what they were, they were also a sum of their parts with the innovative twin lead guitar playing from Robertson & Gorham, and who most people regard as one of the best hard rock drummers of all time Brian Downey.

Those four mid-career albums; Fighting, Jailbreak, Johny The Fox (where my user name came from) and Live & Dangerous were just brilliant, and albums that I never ever get tired of hearing.

"When the spirit slips away
There's nothing you can do, there's nothing you can say
May the angels be watching over you
When your spirit slips away"

I remember when I first heard 'The boys are back in town' I think I was 17 and went straight out and bought the album, seen them twice on stage and they were brilliant.
Oops showing my age now!

And now he's being represented by a dreadlocked body builder who couldn't be more unlike him if he tried.

My parents knew him before he became a huge star

In Dublin he was very well known, back in the late 60s there were very few dark skinned musicians, he was hugely popular and women would throw themselves at him

He was also very proud to be Irish and my parents told me that the odd time some stupid drunken racist would say to him 'you are not Irish you are black' and Phil would give them what for with his mouth and his fists ( and quite rightly so)

My mum hadn't seen him in years when he passed away but she still shed a few tears - he was a true Dublin Legend

What do you make of Nightlife? The first album with Robbo and Scott. It is a bit more melodic than the other albums you mention, Though it does have tracks like Showdown and She Knows which are excellent.

Also Bad Reputation which although he's not on the album cover. Robbo is on the album in parts.

Nightlife is a good album ( a great album by other band's standards) it also had the original version of Still In Love With You on it of course, but I just thought it fell slightly short (IMO) It was clearly obvious that Gorham & Robertson were just forging their partnership and it was for me a bit patchy in parts. I think it got much closer with 'Fighting' and then reached a peak with the magnificent Jailbreak album.

Bad Reputation, Black Rose etc again great albums, and I think as far as british based Hard rock bands at the time, only UFO were releasing that kind of quality. However, the four Lizzy albums I mentioned were all consistently great and ones I always seem to go back to...Only IMO of course

Anyone who saw them live is getting on a bit now!

I saw their final two gigs, Gloucester Leisure Centre on the Thunder and Lightening tour and then the 1983 Reading Festival.

I read an interview with Gary Moore a few years after Phil died. Gary said he was convinced that if Phil hadn't broken Thin Lizzy up he would still be alive.

He was actually born in Birmingham and only went to Dublin when he was about 5

great track!

He still classed himself as a Dub and after all who remembers that much about their life before they were 5 even if they lived on the moon?

Loved a similar story where someone had a go at him on stage. Not knowing that Philomena Lynott was standing nearby. She floored the heckler.

How very dare you!

I saw them at Bridlington in the late 70's. They were fantastic.

I loved the album Johnny the Fox - so many beautiful tracks. Fools Gold was one of my favourites.