“I don’t think we’re a band that will last forever. We could break up any time”: On the road with Thin Lizzy in America in the late 1970s

Thin Lizzy in the street in Copenhagen in 1979.

Between 1977 and 1979, Thin Lizzy were at the height of their powers. Journalist Harry Doherty knew the band better than most, and was invited to join them on the road several times during that period. He found a band whose talents were matched by their ambitions – but whose demons would soon catch up with them.

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