Apart from its immediate commercial success and what it did for the band, the song would forge Thin Lizzy’s legacy as a progenitor of heavy metal, with bands like Metallica, Alice in Chains, Mastodon, and Testament all citing Thin Lizzy as a primary influence. “The Boys Are Back in Town” is easily one of the greatest hard rock hits of all-time. This helped solidify their status in the brand new market they’d just broken into. Shortly after the album’s release, Thin Lizzy toured the US again with Aerosmith, Rush, and REO Speedwagon. “The Boys Are Back in Town” was a worldwide hit and helped fully define the band’s hard rocking, twin-guitar sound. In 1976, Thin Lizzy recorded Jailbreak, which proved to be the breakthrough they’d been hoping for. Still, however, they did well on the road, touring the US for the first time as support for Bob Seger and Bachman-Turner Overdrive. It reached #60 in the UK, though the band continuously struggled to find any sort of commercial success. Thin Lizzy finally had a charting album with their fifth project, called Fighting, in 1975.
Despite this, it reached #1 in Ireland and #6 overall on the UK charts. Unfortunately this trend continued over the course of the first four albums, even with a successful single in 1972: “Whiskey in the Jar” was Thin Lizzy’s take on a traditional Irish ballad, which Decca released against the band’s will. The album was only a modest seller and failed to chart in the UK. By the end of the year they’d signed to Decca Records and gone to London to record their self-titled debut LP. The band performed their first gig at a school hall near the Dublin Airport in February 1970. At least he left behind a legacy a quality back catalog, a memorable description from Henry Rollins as my guardo camino the man that gets me through the high times, the low times and all the times in between, and a song that rivals Jersey Girl as the best.
Thin Lizzy’s first projects were rooted in blues and Celtic folk, with little indication of the heavier rock sound they’d infuse later on. It was twenty-eight years ago this month that Phil Lynott, bassist/vocalist for Thin Lizzy, passed away far too young.
Drummer Brian Downey and bassist/lead vocalist Phil Lynott met while still in school, long before they ever dreamed of being legendary rock icons. As the group’s de-facto leader, Lynott wrote most of the band’s material over the course of 12 studio albums between 19. Irish hard rockers Thin Lizzy formed in Dublin in 1969. In 1976, Thin Lizzy found themselves at the forefront of a burgeoning hard rock scene with one of the year’s biggest hits. What started as a bluesy folk rock project influenced by Celtic culture and frontman Phil Lynott’s Irish upbringing took a 180 somewhere around 1975.
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