Thin Lizzy tour 1978 Thin Lizzy Guide made by Peter Nielsen". Thin Lizzy Guide . Retrieved 3 July 2017. While Lynott searched for a permanent guitarist, he and the other members of Thin Lizzy, past and present, worked on Solo in Soho which was released in April 1980, and the next Thin Lizzy album, Chinatown. Lynott got married on 14 February, and his wife gave birth to a second daughter in July. [84] Dave Flett had hoped to be made a permanent member of Thin Lizzy but Lynott chose Snowy White, who had played with Pink Floyd and Peter Green. [85] Midge Ure was still acting as a temporary keyboard player at gigs during early 1980, but was replaced by Darren Wharton in April, shortly after White joined the band. Wharton was only 18 at the time and was initially hired on a temporary basis. [86] This new line-up completed the Chinatown album between short tours, and two singles were released from it. The first, "Chinatown", reached No.21 in the UK, but the second, " Killer on the Loose", reached the top 10 amid much adverse publicity due to the ongoing activities of serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, known as "The Yorkshire Ripper". [87] Thin Lizzy in concert, 1981 Before the end of 1983, Lynott formed a new band called Grand Slam, but they were never able to secure a contract with a record company and split by the beginning of 1985. [114] Sykes and Downey initially agreed to be a part of the band, but Sykes joined Whitesnake and Downey also changed his mind. Lynott began to focus more on his solo career and enjoyed a No.5 hit single " Out in the Fields" with Gary Moore in May 1985. [115] The song, composed by Moore, was taken from his solo album Run for Cover featuring various contributions from Lynott. Lynott's solo efforts did not fare so well, and his last single, "Nineteen", only reached No.76 in the UK. [116]

a b Popoff, Martin (October 2003). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 1: The Seventies. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p.278. ISBN 978-1894959025. By the end of the year, Thin Lizzy were signed to Decca Records by their manager, Brian Tuite, and they travelled to London in January 1971 to record their debut album, Thin Lizzy. The album sold moderately well, but did not chart in the UK despite airplay and support from influential DJs John Peel and Kid Jensen. [14]

Interview with Scott Gorham". Metal Express Radio. 9 April 2009. Archived from the original on 24 January 2019 . Retrieved 3 April 2011. Gary Moore & Friends – One Night in Dublin – A Tribute to Phil Lynott". AllMusic . Retrieved 17 April 2011. (subscription required) a b "Interview with Scott Gorham, December 2007". Liverpool F.C. Archived from the original on 19 January 2012 . Retrieved 3 April 2011. Yeah,” Robertson replies flatly. “The Lizzy sound is Jailbreak, Johnny The Fox and Live And Dangerous… I don’t know if we were great, but we strove to be great.”

O’Donnell suggested 17 photographs on the gatefold, one from each song, so listeners could follow the music. The eighteenth photo was chosen by Lynott and showed straw, a razor blade and a rolled-up banknote – a glimpse of the recreational habits that would eventually derail him. Tony Visconti was surprised to be asked to produce Live And Dangerous. Bowie even more so, when he discovered his producer was delaying his next album, Lodger, to work on a Thin Lizzy live record. The truth is, Visconti loved the band, but not their increasingly parlous lifestyle. In June 1978, Lynott’s boast became reality with Live And Dangerous, the album against which all past and present Lizzy releases would be measured. The recent 45th-anniversary super-deluxe edition proves that the answer to the eternal question: Which is the greatest live album of all time?, remains the same. It was a culmination of too much fighting, boozing, drugging and challenging Lynott’s authority. Robertson played his last gig with Thin Lizzy at the Ibiza Music Show on July 6, 1978.Ritchie, Gayle (6 July 2020). "50 years of Thin Lizzy: Remembering the night frontman Phil Lynott took a tumble and fell into a Kirkcaldy crowd". Nostalgia. The Courier . Retrieved 9 March 2021. Sykes stated that Thin Lizzy was now "more of a tribute thing" [130] and that it would be wrong to record new material under that name. He added that while the existing band members might record together, it would not be as Thin Lizzy. [130] In 2007, Gorham said that Lynott still received the biggest cheer of the night at concerts, and that the current Thin Lizzy was not active simply for money. [135] "We'd stop if we thought we were just going through the motions... I think that has a lot to do with the songs – if they were inferior, then maybe we would have got tired of it all. But they're not and we haven't," he said. [135] In January 2011, Gorham maintained that Lynott would have approved of the continuation of the band: "He worked long hours and travelled thousands of miles to get it to a certain level. There's no way he would have said 'No-one should play those songs again.'" [136] And I just heard Bob Dylan is a Thin Lizzy fan,” claims Gorham. “Yeah, Bob, but where were you when we needed you, man?” JoyZine - Interview with Cliff Burton (Metallica) by Harald Oimen". www.artistwd.com . Retrieved 6 October 2021.