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YOU WONT BELIEVE: 6 - What They Never Told You

The 10 Greatest Festival Bands Ever, as chosen by The Darkness' Dan Hawkins

Ahead of his band's BST Hyde Park show with Guns N' Roses, The Darkness guitarist Dan Hawkins selects his dream festival line-up. Scream for me Danington!

Louder

The mind-boggling story of how former Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson ended up in Motorhead

"Being in Motörhead was crazy 24 hours a day" says Brian Robertson – but the story of how he came to be part of Lemmy’s chaotic crew is even stranger

Louder

Thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson brought twin-guitar leads to the masses – master their influential style

Jailbreak your rock chops with a lesson in the playing of two guitarists who influenced every guitar duo that followed

Guitar World

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Rare white labels from Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, The Who and many more go under the hammer

The annual White Label Auction ends tomorrow, and will raise money for the BRIT Trust

Louder

Robert Trujillo: “We have more riffs than we know what to do with. With every handful of riffs we get out of Kirk, there’s another 500 we didn’t hear”

Now a 20-year veteran as Metallica bassist, Trujillo details the secret weapons that locked in with James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett's guitar tones on 72 Seasons, and the key to getting extra grit from fingerstyle bass

Guitar World

How Thin Lizzy hitting it hard in Paris was the beginning of the end

“When the brown powder marched in, we were done for” says Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham

Louder

The night Tony Visconti thought Phil Lynott was going to die in his hotel room

Producer Tony Visconti was working with Thin Lizzy on their Black Rose album when Phil Lynott's partying started to spiral out of control

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Phil Lynott once invited Cliff Richard into the studio to hear new Thin Lizzy songs while his dealer chopped out heroin behind the squeaky-clean pop star

Thin Lizzy's studio sessions in Paris for 1979's Black Rose album were punctuated by heavy drug use, and Phil Lynott wasn't particularly careful about hiding that fact

Louder

'Best club ever' where 'many a good night' was had in Liverpool

"We never stopped dancing"

Liverpool Echo

The Lowlist: Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous is one of the greatest live albums ever released

Unfairly maligned as an album "fixed in the studio", a new version of Live And Dangerous proves Lynott and co didn't need overdubs

Guitar World

Bowie, Queen, Madonna and more – a look at Slane Castle’s iconic acts through the decades

For over 40 years, Slane Castle has staged the biggest names in music from every genre – here we look back at just some of the incredible performances

The Independent UK

Rock N Roll restaurant opens in Dublin with burgers named after Thin Lizzy and AC/DC

Dublin now has a Rock N Roll burger joint

Dublin Live

Things you could do in 1960s-70s Northern Ireland that brought light in dark times

Our corner of the world was once a very different place

Belfast Live

Paul Ryder: Bass guitarist who brought funk to Happy Mondays

The younger brother of the ‘Madchester’-spawned group’s frontman Shaun, created infectious grooves to underpin the band’s untutored but inimitable indie-dance sound

The Independent UK

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Phil Lynott Convention comes to Dublin in celebration of music legend's birthday

The event will celebrate his music and his life

Belfast Live

Looking back at Thin Lizzy's legendary visit to Bangor in 1974

Stroll down memory lane as we look back at when rock legends Thin Lizzy paid a visit to Bangor

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