Late DJ John Peel's name may be most closely associated with the emergence of punk and all that followed, but he was an early and enthusiastic supporter of Thin Lizzy.
"The story of my first meeting with Phil Lynott and the boys aboard a ferry, salt-caked smokestacks and the rest, between Dun Laoghaire and Holyhead, has been told too many times already," Peel wrote in the sleevenotes to 1994's Thin Lizzy compilation The Peel Sessions. "Suffice to say, Thin Lizzy were crossing to England for the first time aboard the same boat as myself, made contact and urged me to listen out for them.
