In 1985, rock stars were not protected by an army of public relations professionals. If you knew where to find them you could talk to them, and if you happened to work for a fledgling TV music show, you could invite them to appear.
And so it came to pass that then rock journalist (now head of Spinefarm Records) Dante Bonutto came to interview former Thin Lizzy mainman Phil Lynott in December 1985. He'd run into Lynott into a party, and asked him to guest on Music Box, a cable and satellite television channel launched in London the previous year. Lynott, who'd recently released a solo single, Nineteen, was happy to oblige.
