He was known for his distinctive plectrum-based style on the bass, and for his imaginative lyrical contributions including working class tales and numerous characters drawn from personal influences and Celtic culture.
His most commercially successful group was Thin Lizzy, of which he was a founding member, the principal songwriter, lead vocalist and bassist. Formed in the late 60s by Irish singer/songwriter/bassist Phil Lynott, Lizzy, though not the first band to do so, combined romanticized working-class. His mother was an Irish woman, Philomena Lynott, and his father. Philip Parris Lynott was an Irish singer, bassist, and songwriter. His talent for songwriting really brought the songs. Phil Lynott: Songs for While I’m Away is in cinemas from 30 October. Phil Lynott was born Philip Parris Lynott in West Bromwich, England on the 20th of August 1949. Phil Lynott was originally known as the frontman for Thin Lizzy who was the songwriter, bassist, and singer. Throughout his musical career he was also a member of Skid Row. A diverting trip down a sweet, sad stretch of memory lane. He was a founding member of Thin Lizzy and was their songwriter, lead vocalist and bassist. This film, though giving us a PG-certificate account of what Phil’s life was like on tour away from his wife, and hinting coyly at his addictive problems, can’t quite bring itself to say the word “heroin” and his eventual, cruelly early death seems weirdly unexplained until you grasp this grim fact.
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For a while, he was a sweetly devoted husband to music PR Caroline Crowther and father to two girls (although very strangely, the film doesn’t point out that his father-in-law was the legendary British children’s TV entertainer Leslie Crowther, one of the most surreal juxtapositions in the history of pop culture the Phil and Leslie pairing is itself worthy of a biopic). His lyrics could sometimes be fanciful – the film gives us another chance to ponder that famously strange announcement in Jailbreak: “Tonight there’s gonna be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town.” At the jail, presumably.ĭid Lynott suffer from racism? Yes, apparently, at school but not – it seems – in the world of rock. RF HR6A81Phil Lynott, Lead singer of Irish rock group Thin Lizzy, performs.
Lynott was the rock’n’roll wild man of mixed race from Dublin with the soul of a poet, who was blessed with great songwriting skills and a crucial ability to intersperse the stadium stuff with reflective, gentle songs, drawn from a folk tradition. Phil Lynott, Lead singer of Irish rock group Thin Lizzy, performs live on stage. Watch the trailer for Phil Lynott: Songs for While I’m Away
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