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PHIL LYNOTT PASSED away 30 years ago today, at the age of just 36.
Here are just some of the times he made it all look easy.
This image appears in Patrick Brocklebank and Sinéad Moloney’s book Where The Streets Have 2 Names, published by Liberties Press.
Thanks to Brand New Retro for the use of images 7 and 9. Buy their book!
Written by Michael Freeman and posted on DailyEdge.ie
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I remember walking, YES WALKING, from Booterstown to Glasthule (cost I only had the admission price – no busfare) to see him perform as a solo artiste in Club Caroline, before Thin Lizzy were formed. Worth every step.
Bet you’ve some good stories from the Swinging 60′s.
Sex and drugs and rock and roll and rashers.
Ah, if only! :-D
They say if you remembered the Sixties then you weren’t there.
Love his version of The Corrs ” This boy is cracking up”
It’s his song.
Whoosh!
Bono would give all his high heels for that head of hair .
Cool b*stard.
He was the shining star of frontmen. He had everything. The look, the talent and the charisma. We will never see the like of him again. Rip phil.
Cool looking guy for sure, but unlike most rock stars of the time a lovely man as well kind heart generous etc
Cool looking dude.
When I was a kid I went to my aunt’s wedding. She had a rock band playing. Eric Bell was a member of the wedding party and he got up and played a few numbers.
It’s only in hindsight I realised what a privilege it was to hear him play.
Great camel toe on him in No.8.
He went out with my sister, (claim to fame)
We’ve all been out with your sister.
Yo mama!
Greatest Irishman of all
More importantly, greatest Dub of all :)
Anymore of him when he was a junkie
Jerk !
And the moron of the day award goes to …
You can’t nominate yourself like that
Go away and slither back under your rock you vile creature.
Jesus some of the comments are vile! Btw that wasnt the hapenny bridge in the last one cos last time i looked theres no trees growing in the liffey! And as for him being “a junkie who cldnt sing” lets just say his million sales back catalog debunks that myth,and the fact that kids are still into his music now shows what a legend he was. Phil was the number one and always wil be.
Dat fro.
He couldn’t sing. .. and sounded like his nose was blocked with something. ..
Dope
Tom Dunne looking good in 8 and 11. Looks like a photoshoot from Stuck Together with God’s Glue there.
Anyone remember him gigging with Big Tom ?
Please post a video link to that.
Geldof was in the same vain. They both had an edge and then Bono took the edge.
Legend has it that Lizzy were on the cusp of international stardom supporting Queen on a USA tour til their guitarist broke his hand
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