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DARK SECRETS: Thin lizzy - The Real Truth

Listen to long-lost Phil Lynott song Can't Get Away, recorded just weeks before his death

Can’t Get Away, recorded with Huey Lewis, is one of 29 previously unreleased songs on the upcoming eight-disc Phil Lynott anthology The Story Of My Life

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10 obscure but brilliant 70s bands who should have been huge

These 70s bands came, they rocked, and they vanished without trace

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“I’m a big fan of Thin Lizzy, so when Midge Ure came into the shop, that was pretty surreal”: On the shop floor at legendary Asbury Park guitar store Russo Music – where no day is a bad day

We visit Russo Music, where for over 60 years it has served Asbury Park, NJ, and now has stores in Hamilton Township and Philly

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“He solobombs in to drop some terrifyingly clean sweep passages. Modern technical guitar playing doesn’t get better than this”: July 2026 Guitar World Editors' Picks

Featuring a ferocious new single from the future of shred, defiantly optimistic post-punk, “ecstasy for the ears” indie, irresistible jazz fusion, and much more

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“The last time I saw him was three weeks before he died. He filled a glass with vodka, knocked it straight back and filled it up again. He said, ‘Oh, did you want one?’ ‘Uh, no thanks, Phil’”: Scott Gorham on the last days of Thin Lizzy legend Phil Lynott

“Even if he had stopped taking drugs right there on the spot, I think it had still gone too far”

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“I got to play Gary’s Les Paul from the Lizzy days. It was quite difficult, the action was horrendous. He had big, big hands”: Brian Robertson busts myths and shares war stories from Thin Lizzy’s glory days

Scott Gorham has long been the public face of Thin Lizzy. Now, Brian Robertson, the man behind Lizzy’s trademark six-string harmonies, gives us his perspective on the band’s classic era

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“I saw Taste on TV when I was 11 – this noise just transfixed me. I decided there and then that I wanted to be Rory Gallagher”: 18 of the greatest Irish guitarists of all time

Rory Gallagher, The Edge, Gary Moore of course, but who makes up the other 15?

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"We're scratching our heads and wondering why we just allowed the band to end there." 40 years ago, Thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham recorded a brilliant AOR album – and now it's finally being released

The Western Front thought a major label deal was a formality... but instead, their master tapes sat in a garage for decades

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“I’m auditioning for an Irish rock band, so I’m expecting a red-haired white guy. Then this big black guy with a massive afro and an Irish accent says, ‘Hey, I’m Phil!’ I thought, ‘This is gonna be interesting’”: Scott Gorham’s wild ride with Thin Lizzy

“We were that kind of band that didn’t go out looking for trouble but we always got it”

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“We didn’t think he was up to it. He was perfectly capable of playing the major and minor chords in the right place, but not the lead”: Brian Robertson’s early reservations on Scott Gorham joining Thin Lizzy

Robertson wasn’t filled with confidence when Gorham first joined the band

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"If you have a perception of him as an out-of-control rock'n'roller, that's not the guy I worked with." Jeff Wayne needed someone to play an apocalyptic preacher in The War Of The Worlds. In Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott, he found the perfect voice

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds was released in June 1978

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"Right now, songwriting and pop music is crap." Metallica's Kirk Hammett hammers the current state of pop and reveals the "fantastic" first gig he ever went to

Safe to say that Kirk is not a big fan of the modern pop music scene

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“There was no master plan apart from we didn’t want to do the Thin Lizzy/Status Quo blues bendy thing”: Bruce Watson on the birth of Big Country, Stuart Adamson’s legacy and the secret to bagpipe guitar

Bruce Watson shares the guitar story of the Scottish rock stalwarts, the "Itch and Itch" amps so crucial to his tone, and how “Scotland’s answer to Jimi Hendrix” was the heart of Big Country's sound

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My favourite Thin Lizzy song, by James Hetfield, Tony Iommi, Jon Bon Jovi, Suzi Quatro, Joe Elliott, Francis Rossi, Mick Box, Johnny Van Zant and more

Everyone has a favourite Thin Lizzy song, right? So we asked a load of famous folks to pick theirs and tell us why

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"Underwhelming considering the talent involved." Supergroup Wild Horses pull up short on lacklustre debut studio album

Rainbow's Jimmy Bain + Thin Lizzy's Brian Robertson = Mild Horses

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“I wasn’t a fan. The only thing I knew was Ace Of Spades. I knew it was going to be rough... I couldn’t distinguish one track from another”: Why Thin Lizzy’s Brian Robertson knew his stint in Motörhead was doomed

The flying Scotsman replaced Fast Eddie Clarke, and had a formidable rep as Thin Lizzy guitarist, but he soon found Motörhead were not quite his speed

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"I said to Phil on the side of the stage: 'What are we going to do? I can't distinguish between the songs!'" Brian Robertson played with Thin Lizzy, Motörhead and Wild Horses: Now he finally reveals all

Brian Robertson lived it live and dangerous in Thin Lizzy, lived it loud in Motörhead, rode his own band Wild Horses, and has an impressive list of credits as both session musician and producer

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"It was an embarrassment, but we were desperate for the cash."How Thin Lizzy saved their career by recording an album of Deep Purple covers

It's late 1972, and Thin Lizzy are about to lose their record contract - then along comes an offer they can't afford to refuse

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Thin Lizzy's legendary 1976 Cleveland show gets first vinyl release

The album pulls together the recordings from the band's May 11, 1976, concert at the Agora.

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"I first met Phil Lynott completely by accident during my first ever acid trip." Original Thin Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell on the birth of the band and his relationship with their "gentle and romantic" frontman

The story behind the 1969 formation of Thin Lizzy

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“Automatically you go into blues when you do that”: Big Country's golden guitar rule that steered them clear of the blues

The band drew great inspiration from Thin Lizzy’s sonic template, but they made a concerted effort to avoid being labeled as a blues band

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"To us, this was a decent album track, no more. We certainly did not think it could be a single!" Without the support of two American DJs, one of rock's classic singles might never have been released

Had Thin Lizzy's manager not had an ear for a good tune and some American DJs not picked up on it, Phil Lynott & Co. might never have released their signature song

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"I think I just played the same song the whole night." Thin Lizzy legend Brian Robertson on his controversial time in Motorhead, and why Lemmy asked him to leave

"I knew it was going to be rough"

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“Scott Gorham and Phil Lynott were taken aback that I wouldn’t party with them. I stayed in my room at the hotel. I got to the studio on time. I was trying to make a point”: Brian Robertson knows what Thin Lizzy lost when he left

Half of the classic-era twin guitar attack discusses how the iconic sound was built, his relationships with his bandmates after he left, his forensic approach to modding Kirk Hammett Les Pauls to look like Peter Green’s Greeny, and why he couldn’t play the real thing

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