Thin Lizzy’s 1979 record Black Rose was their greatest achievement, but the Irish rockers’ ninth album came at a heavy price. The band, now including returning guitarist Gary Moore, decamped to Paris to make it and they weren’t going to let one of the world’s most intoxicating cities pass them by. Led by Lynott and his partner-in-crime Scott Gorham, two men who could sniff out a party if it was happening in the next city, it was the most hedonistic era for a band whose hedonistic era ran the entire length of their career.
“The party started in earnest in Paris,” Gorham told Classic Rock’s Harry Doherty. “Phil was in love with the place – the women, the wine, the drugs, the clubs. And we were there for about a month, so we knew all the club owners, all the bouncers, the chicks, the hookers. We knew all the dealers too…”
