Thin Lizzy is an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1969. Two of the founding members, drummer Brian Downey and bass guitarist/vocalist Phil Lynott, met while still in school. Lynott assumed the role of frontman and led them throughout their recording career of twelve studio albums. Thin Lizzy are best known for their songs “Whiskey in the Jar”, “Jailbreak” and “The Boys Are Back in Town”, all major international hits still played regularly on hard rock and classic rock radio stations.
After Lynott’s death in 1986, various incarnations of the band have emerged over the years based initially around guitarists Scott Gorham and John Sykes, though Sykes left the band in 2009. Gorham later continued with a new line-up including Downey.
Their music reflects a wide range of influences, including blues, soul music, psychedelic rock, and traditional Irish folk music, but is generally classified as hard rock or sometimes heavy metal. Rolling Stone magazine describes the band as distinctly hard rock, “far apart from the braying mid-70s metal pack”
Allmusic critic John Dougan has written that “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, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, and virtually all of the Irish literary tradition.”
In 2012, Gorham and Downey decided against recording new material as Thin Lizzy so a new band, Black Star Riders, was formed to tour and produce new releases such as the All Hell Breaks Loose album. Thin Lizzy plans to reunite for occasional concerts.
(Source: wiki – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_Lizzy)
MEMBERS – CURRENT LINE-UP
• Brian Downey – drums, percussion
• Marco Mendoza – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Ricky Warwick – lead vocals, occasional guitar
• Damon Johnson – guitar, backing vocals
• Scott Gorham – guitar, backing vocals
• Darren Wharton – keyboards, vocals
DISCOGRAPHY
• Thin Lizzy (1971)
• Shades of a Blue Orphanage (1972)
• Vagabonds of the Western World (1973)
• Nightlife (1974)
• Fighting (1975)
• Jailbreak (1976)
• Johnny the Fox (1976)
• Bad Reputation (1977)
• Black Rose: A Rock Legend (1979)
• Chinatown (1980)
• Renegade (1981)
• Thunder and Lightning (1983)
Here is a list of 10 best songs of Thin Lizzy: