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Brush Shiels was in Skid Row with Gary Moore – not that Skid Row (i.e., the one with Scotti Hill and Dave Sabo) – but the Irish blues rock band that operated between the late ’60s and early ’70s and ...
Brendan “Brush” Shiels, 79, grew up in Phibsboro, Dublin. In 1967, he formed Skid Row, Ireland’s seminal rock group, which briefly included Phil Lynott on vocals, and Gary Moore on guitar ...
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The Dublin-born band, which hit the scene in 1969, boasted a lineup that initially featured bass guitarist, lead vocalist and key songwriter Phil Lynott, drummer Brian Downey, guitarist Eric Bell ...
While Thin Lizzy never became the huge stars they deserved to be during their '70s heyday, the powerhouse Dublin-based quartet led by bassist, singer and poetic songwriter Phil Lynott created a ...
Moore went solo again with Back On The Streets, which featured a rhythm section of Simon Phillips (drums) and Lynott (bass and vocals) as well as Colloseum II players Don Airey and John Mole. The ...
Thin Lizzy. The Acoustic Sessions. Phil Lynott famously demoed everything he wrote for Thin Lizzy with just him singing over acoustic guitar. Now Eric Bell, the band’s first guitarist, has ...
Phil Lynott died on January 4, 1986, at the age of 36. His death was the result of heart failure and pneumonia, which were complications from years of substance abuse.
Not long after that record arrived, the band came to an abrupt halt following the death of bass player and founding member ...
Phil Lynott would’ve turned 75 recently and so naturally the media is full of think pieces about the legacy of Crumlin’s finest bass player, reminiscence and reappraisal of his solo material and the ...
He saw Phil Lynott and drummer Brian Downey in the changing room of a music club in Dublin. "We talked for a while and we thought we'd get a sort of jam together to see how we would work with each ...