Thin Lizzy was in the seventies, the first successful Irish hard rock band. With a combination of contemporary Irish roots, teenage rebellion and working-class frustrations working group during this decade on a wild reputation, both on and off the stage. The tough - Bruce Springsteen meets Jimi Hendrix - voice of Afro-Irish singer / bassist Phil Lynott was the perfect medium for this, supported by
… angular power chords and double-guitar harmonies. The group broke up after a slow start in 1976 by The Boys Are Back In Town and the title track of Jailbreak. A certain commercial and artistic decline in the eighties ended with a farewell tour in 1983 and the drug-related death of Lynott in 1986.more