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How Midge Ure ended up playing guitar in Thin Lizzy

Remembering the time when Phil Lynott wanted hard rock legends Thin Lizzy to start using synths and drum machines

Thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson brought twin-guitar leads to the masses – master their influential style

Thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson brought twin-guitar leads to the masses – master their influential style

Jailbreak your rock chops with a lesson in the playing of two guitarists who influenced every guitar duo that followed

How Thin Lizzy hitting it hard in Paris was the beginning of the end

How Thin Lizzy hitting it hard in Paris was the beginning of the end

“When the brown powder marched in, we were done for” says Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham

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The night Tony Visconti thought Phil Lynott was going to die in his hotel room

Producer Tony Visconti was working with Thin Lizzy on their Black Rose album when Phil Lynott's partying started to spiral out of control

Here's what happened when cops raided a Thin Lizzy tour hoping to score a huge drugs bust

When the Royal Ulster Constabulary decided to go after Thin Lizzy for suspected drug abuse it resulted in road blocks, surprise backstage busts and strip searches – but not an ounce of cocaine to be found

Phil Lynott once invited Cliff Richard into the studio to hear new Thin Lizzy songs while his dealer chopped out heroin behind the squeaky-clean pop star

Thin Lizzy's studio sessions in Paris for 1979's Black Rose album were punctuated by heavy drug use, and Phil Lynott wasn't particularly careful about hiding that fact

The Lowlist: Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous is one of the greatest live albums ever released

Unfairly maligned as an album "fixed in the studio", a new version of Live And Dangerous proves Lynott and co didn't need overdubs

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Clerys' clock restored to former glory and unveiled to onlookers in Dublin

Clerys' clock restored to former glory and unveiled to onlookers in Dublin

The clock's unveiling came ahead of an exhibition that opens on Wednesday at Clerys

Things you could do in 1960s-70s Northern Ireland that brought light in dark times

Things you could do in 1960s-70s Northern Ireland that brought light in dark times

Our corner of the world was once a very different place

Phil Lynott Convention will honour late Dublin legend on 73rd birthday

Phil Lynott Convention will honour late Dublin legend on 73rd birthday

Brian Downey is set to perform a two-hour class of the best of Lizzy

Celebrity names you've been pronouncing wrong from Phil Lynott to Ariana Grande

Celebrity names you've been pronouncing wrong from Phil Lynott to Ariana Grande

Did you know Phil Lynott's name is pronounced like this?

Phil Lynott Convention comes to Dublin in celebration of music legend's birthday

Phil Lynott Convention comes to Dublin in celebration of music legend's birthday

The event will celebrate his music and his life

Dubliners reveal their favourite Irish songs from trad tunes to Westlife - and there's one clear winner

Dubliners reveal their favourite Irish songs from trad tunes to Westlife - and there's one clear winner

Wherever we are in the world, we all love hearing a classic Irish song on a night out and most of us can’t help but sing along

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