“I’m going, ‘Whoa, I just quit my band, put all my eggs in thisThin Lizzybasket, and now we’re breaking up over a beard?!’”: Scott Gorham recalls the band's close shave when Phil Lynott was not tickled by Brian Robertson’s whiskers

Thin Lizzy live in 1978, Brian Robertson in white, playing his Les Paul, Phil Lynott in the middle on bass and vocals, and Scott Gorham in red trousers and an open blue shirt playing a tomato burst Les Paul.

The years 1974 to ’78 were good to Thin Lizzy. The Irish rockers had expanded into a quartet, welcoming Scott Gorham into the fold. Gorham and Brian Robertson on electric guitar would ultimately prove to be the power-up their sound would need.

It gave us one of the greatest live rock albums of all time, Live & Dangerous. Gorham, the easygoing Californian, and Robertson, the fiery Scot had chemistry – even if the latter’s fieriness would often see him fly too close to the sun.