Keyboard wizard Darren Wharton was only 17 years old when drafted in as a guest musician on Thin Lizzy’s 1980 album Chinatown. Speed guitar legend Gary Moore had departed after only one album, 1980’s Black Rose, and had surprisingly been replaced by reflective blues merchant Snowy White, about as different from Moore as could be..
‘THIN LIZZY – ON TRACK’ – EXCLUSIVE SAMPLE CHAPTER
Recently, two members of the Velvet Thunder writing team have had books published in the 'On Track' series by Sonicbond Publishing, delving into every album and every track by a selected artist - Graeme Stroud covering Thin Lizzy and Steve Pilkington taking on Iron Maiden. We are pleased to be able to present exclusive sample..
Photo by Mick Morton
Brian Downey
It was Eric Bell who came up with the idea of Tin Lizzie, like the comic spelling. It was on a kind of a shortlist, and I remember sitting there going ‘Nah, that doesn’t sound too good…’ In my mind, I am whizzing back in time to the early 1980s. The New Wave of British..