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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
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James Cook

I’ll be listening to two iconic Thin Lizzy albums to celebrate their 50th birthday – you should too

Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak and Johnny the Fox on CD side by side.

What Hi-Fi? was founded in 1976, so you could say it was a good year for us. To help celebrate our magazine’s 50th, I’ve been putting together a guide to the best tracks from that year. During the course of my research, I came to the realisation that it was the very same year that one of my favourite bands put out two iconic albums.

That band is Thin Lizzy, and they are a group that any hard rock fan should, at the very least, be aware of. They released Jailbreak in March and Johnny the Fox in October of 1976, and if you’ve never heard either before, or it’s been a while since you have, that needs to change. And here’s why.

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