Genres: Hard Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Heavy Metal, British Metal, Album Rock Active: 70's, 80's Formed: 1970 in Dublin, Ireland
The Who, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Wishbone Ash, The Yardbirds, Van Morrison, The Small Faces, Slade, Jeff Beck, The Allman Brothers Band AC/DC, The Runaways, Joan Jett, UFO, Free, Alice Cooper, Bad Company, Queen, Gary Moore, Aerosmith, Steely Dan, Cheap Trick, Bob Seger, Uriah Heep, Blue Öyster Cult, ZZ Top, The Doobie Brothers, Boston, Ted Nugent Concrete Blonde, Pride Tiger, Tokyo Dragons, Guns N' Roses, Ween, Henry Rollins, Diamond Nights, Saxon, Stone Gods, Therapy?, Haunted Garage, Trouble, Iron Maiden, Valient Thorr, Riot, Smashing Pumpkins, U2, Kal P. Dal, Skid Row |  |
Despite a huge hit single in the mid-'70s ("The Boys Are Back in Town") and becoming a popular act with hard rock/heavy metal fans, Thin Lizzy are still, in the pantheon of '70s rock bands, underappreciated. Formed in the late '60s by Irish singer/songwriter/bassist Phil Lynott, Lizzy, though not the first band to do so, combined romanticized working-class sentiments with their ferocious, twin-lead guitar attack. As the band's creative force, Lynott was a more insightful and intelligent writer than many of his ilk, preferring slice-of-life working-class dramas of love and hate influenced by Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and virtually all of the Irish literary tradition. Also, as a black man, Lynott was an anomaly in the nearly all-white world of hard rock, and as such imbued much of his work with a sense of alienation; he was the outsider, the romantic guy from the other side of the tracks, a self-styled poet of the lovelorn and downtrodden.
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Release: November 10, 2009
Label: Eagle Rock
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Release: July 28, 2009
Label: PHD Music
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