The roots of the Thin Lizzy story go back to the mid-1960s, where two school pals, Philip Lynott – the illegitimate son of a white Irish mother and a black Brazilian merchant seaman – and Brian Downey ...

With some two dozen co-writes on Thin Lizzy songs, Scott Gorham must certainly have a favorite. Indeed he does, and it's a tune released 50 years ago today: "She Knows," the opening cut on Nightlife, ...

Thin Lizzy were on the verge of being dropped at the time they made the Jailbreak album, which was released in 1976. Though the record itself is now legendary, it could have been completely different ...

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