#OTD in 1949 – Birth of Thin Lizzy lead singer, Phil Lynott.

20/08/2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

Image | When asked by a journalist what it felt like to be black and Irish, Phil quipped, “Kinda like a pint of Guinness”. Irish rock star, bassist, singer and founder of Thin Lizzy, Phil Lynott is born in England to single mom Philomena Lynott. At about age four, Lynott moved to Dublin to live with […]

#OTD in 1952 – Birth of rock guitarist, Gary Moore, in Belfast.

04/04/2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

Gary Moore was a guitar prodigy who was mentored in his teens by Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac. Green gave Moore his 1959 Les Paul Standard guitar after he left Fleetwood Mac. In Dublin, Moore joined the group Skid Row with Noel Bridgeman and Brendan “Brush” Shiels. It was with this group that he earned […]

#OTD in 1986 – Death of singer, bassist, instrumentalist, and songwriter, Phil Lynott.

04/01/2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

Irish rock star, bassist, singer and founder of Thin Lizzy, Phil Lynott dies. Lynott originally played with Skid Row, (the Irish band featuring Gary Moore, Brush Shiels, Noel Bridgeman). Lynott had significant success with Thin Lizzy. The band’s first major hit was a rock version of Whiskey in the Jar, but are probably best known […]

#OTD in 1949 – Birth of Thin Lizzy lead singer, Phil Lynott.

20/08/2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

#OTD in 1952 – Birth of rock guitarist, Gary Moore, in Belfast.

04/04/2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

#OTD in 1986 – Death of singer, bassist, instrumentalist, and songwriter, Phil Lynott.

04/01/2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

#OTD in 1949 – Birth of Thin Lizzy lead singer, Phil Lynott.

20/08/2017.Reading time 4 minutes.

Irish rock star, bassist, singer and founder of Thin Lizzy, Phil Lynott is born in England to single mom Philomena Lynott. At about age four, Lynott moved to Dublin to live with his maternal grandmother. At a time when Dublin was a very homogeneous white society, Lynott did suffer some racial prejudice. Still in his […]