Phil Lynott
Bassist and leader of Thin Lizzy, Black and Irish, he's a muscular hard rocker
of the seventies and a precursor of funk-rock fusion, whose life boils down to
an obsession with freedom and refusal of labels. In 1979, in parallel with Thin
Lizzy, Phil launched into his first album, Solo In Soho (1980), where he
furiously mixed rock, blues, funk and even reggae, asserting his blackness with
his nasal voice. He followed this up with The Philip Lynott Album (1982), an
eclectic production in which brassy funk meets Bob Dylan-style ballads. Burning
life at both ends (drugs and alcohol.....
