Life Live? More like Life-less. After Thin Lizzy wrapped up their successful "farewell" tour, their second live album was issued. It was originally supposed to be issued during the tour, but extensive overdubbing and nitpicking pushed the album's release toward year's end, after the publicity from the tour had died down.
To celebrate 50 years of Thin Lizzy Universal Music are releasing Rock Legends, a 6CD+DVD box set that features an astonishing 74 unreleased tracks. This box covers the band’s whole career with audio newly mastered by Andy Pearce. The content encompasses a raft of unreleased material including demos, radio sessions, live recordings and rare single edits. The track listing has been compiled by Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham and Lizzy expert Nick Sharp from a collection of newly discovered tapes most of which have never been heard before.
Thunder and Lightning is the twelfth and final studio album by Irish hard rock band Thin Lizzy, released in 1983. Guitarist John Sykes was hired to replace Snowy White after 1981's Renegade, and Sykes helped to provide a heavier sound and guitar tone than Thin Lizzy had used on previous albums. However, the bulk of the songwriting (except for "Cold Sweat") was completed before he joined the band. Keyboard player Darren Wharton also offered a stronger musical influence to Thin Lizzy's final studio album, co-writing many of the tracks including "Some Day She Is Going to Hit Back", and the final single "The Sun Goes Down". A farewell tour followed the album's release, followed by the live album Life. The group's co-founder, frontman and bass player Phil Lynott died in 1986 from drug-related causes.
Thunder and Lightning is the twelfth studio album by heavy-rock band Thin Lizzy, released in 1983. Guitarist John Sykes was hired to replace Snowy White after 1981's Renegade, and Sykes helped to provide a heavier sound and guitar tone than Thin Lizzy had used on previous albums. However, the bulk of the songwriting (except for "Cold Sweat") was completed before he joined the band. Keyboard player Darren Wharton also offered a stronger musical influence to Thin Lizzy's final studio album, co-writing many of the tracks including "Some Day She Is Going to Hit Back", and the final single "The Sun Goes Down".
Despite a huge hit single in the mid-'70s ("The Boys Are Back in Town") and becoming a popular act with hard rock/heavy metal fans, Thin Lizzy are still, in the pantheon of '70s rock bands, underappreciated. 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 sentiments with their ferocious, twin-lead guitar attack. 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, Bruce Springsteen, and virtually all of the Irish literary tradition…
"Classic Album Selection" is an album collection of one the best rock bands ever: Thin Lizzy. The box set contains the following 6 original albums (with original masters) by the Irish legends: "Nightlife" (1974), "Fighting" (1975), "Jailbreak" (1976), "Johnny The Fox" (1976), "Bad Reputation" (1977) and "Black Rose: A Rock Legend" (1979). Each packed in mini LP paper sleeves, the design goes along with the other already released classic album selections. A great box set for all fans or those who want to add a new gem to their collection of the band's material.
Following on from the huge success of 2004’s Greatest Hits CD & DVD releases, Live and Dangerous at the Rainbow, Thin Lizzy’s legendary live film from 1978, is finally released on DVD.
With full digital restoration and new 5.1 surround mix, this release offers the ever-loyal Lizzy fan amazing value for money an additional TV concert is included which truly reflects the status of one of rock’s best live bands.
Live And Dangerous showcases Thin Lizzy’s iconic concert at the historic Rainbow Theatre in 1977, before a riotous crowd at the frenzied pinnacle of their form.
The DVD is presented with pristinely restored visual clarity and 5.1 digital surround sound. With an incredible 2 hours of bonus material, including the entire Sight & Sound concert filmed for the BBC during their farewell tour of 1983, 5 Top Of The Pops TV performances, and the first ever in-depth interviews with Scott Gorham, Brian Robertson and Brian Downey.