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Thin Lizzy were founded one night in late December 1969 in Dublin, Ireland, when Belfast guitarist Eric Bell met up with organist Eric Wrixon in a pub and found that they shared an ambition to form a group.
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* 1950 – Tommy Aldridge, American drummer ( Black Oak Arkansas and Thin Lizzy )
* 1962 – Vivian Campbell, Irish guitarist and songwriter ( Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Dio, Thin Lizzy, and Sweet Savage )
Live music is popularly played on streets and at venues throughout Dublin in general, and the city has produced several musicians and groups of international success, including U2, one member of Westlife, The Dubliners, The Thrills, Horslips, Jedward, The Boomtown Rats, Boyzone, Ronan Keating, Thin Lizzy, Paddy Casey, Sinéad O ' Connor, The Script and My Bloody Valentine.
* 1951 – Brian Downey, Irish musician ( Thin Lizzy )
* 1951 – Scott Gorham, American musician ( Thin Lizzy and 21 Guns )
* 1947 – Eric Bell, Irish guitarist and songwriter ( Thin Lizzy and The Noel Redding Band )
* 1956 – Brian Robertson, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Thin Lizzy, Motörhead, and Wild Horses )
** Phil Lynott, lead singer and bassist of Thin Lizzy ( b. 1949 )
* Grand Slam ( band ), a band formed by Thin Lizzy bassist / vocalist Phil Lynott
Wetton and Downes ' attempt to restart the group in 1987 with guitarist Scott Gorham ( formerly of Thin Lizzy ) and drummer Michael Sturgis ( ex-a-ha ) fizzled when they were unable to land a worldwide recording deal.
* " The Boys Are Back in Town " – Thin Lizzy
Another schoolfriend was Alan McGee, who took Gillespie to his first gig, a Thin Lizzy concert.
Lewis also worked with Irish band Thin Lizzy, contributing harmonica to the song " Baby Drives Me Crazy ," recorded onstage for the Live and Dangerous album.
It features Academy Award nominated actor Richard Burton, Justin Hayward ( of The Moody Blues ), Chris Thompson ( of Manfred Mann ), Phil Lynott ( of Thin Lizzy ), Julie Covington ( of Evita ), and David Essex ( Evita, The China Plates ).
*" Massacre ", a song by the band Thin Lizzy
" a cover of a Thin Lizzy song, featuring Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham ; Rollins has often expressed fondness for Thin Lizzy and its founder, Phil Lynott.
Other well-known trios from the 1970s and 1980s include The James Gang ; Glass Harp ; Raven ; Budgie ; Grand Funk Railroad ; Triumph ; Blue Cheer ; Johnny Winter's Progressive Blues Experiment ; Motörhead ; The Minutemen ; West, Bruce and Laing ; The Jam ; The Police ; Rush ; Zebra ; ZZ Top ; Robin Trower Band and, until the album Nightlife, Thin Lizzy.
** Thin Lizzy are forced to cancel their U. S. tour when guitarist Brian Robertson injures his hand in a bar fight.
Also on the bill are Journey, Thin Lizzy, AC / DC and the Scorpions.
By way of compensation, Shiels gave him a bass guitar he had bought from former musician Robert Ballagh for £ 49 in 1967 while with the Uptown Band, he taught Lynott to play bass, and after a stint with ' Orphanage ' Lynott went on to international fame as founder, bassist and vocalist for Thin Lizzy.
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The novel is a comedy-mystery in the style of The Thin Man, about a group of friends who were so drunk the night one of them was murdered that none can remember anything.
Thin transparent sheets of mica called " isinglass " were used for peepholes in boilers, lanterns, stoves, and kerosene heaters because they were less likely to shatter than glass when exposed to extreme temperature gradients.
Others were trying to represent a more harrowing side of the reality of the war such precursor movies as the German Joseph Vilsmaier's Stalingrad, Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot and the later, American director Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line.
On December 8, 1980, Lennon and Ono were in the studio working on Ono's song Walking on Thin Ice.
Also during the period, there were many detective films ( The Thin Man Goes Home and Charlie Chan in the Secret Service for example ) in which the mystery involved who stole the secret blue-prints, or who kidnapped the famous scientist.
Thin film heads were electronically similar to ferrite heads and used the same physics.
Thin film heads were much smaller than MIG heads and therefore allowed smaller recorded features to be used.
All the novels except The Thin Man were originally serialized in three, four, or five parts in various magazines.
The film adaptation of The Thin Man was a resounding success, and although Hammett never wrote another novel with Nick and Nora Charles, five movie sequels were produced.
By the end of the year, Thin Lizzy were signed to Decca Records and they travelled to London in January 1971 to record their debut album, Thin Lizzy.
In mid-1972, Thin Lizzy were asked to record an album of Deep Purple covers, which was released under the title Funky Junction Play a Tribute to Deep Purple.
7 in the UK, but by this time Thin Lizzy albums were not even reaching the top 100 in the USA.
Around the same time, the band were recording material for the next Thin Lizzy album, and as before, the sessions seemed to merge to the extent that musicians were not always sure which album they were working on.
Producer for the Thin Lizzy sessions, Chris Tsangarides, stated, " The feeling of confusion was in the air in that sometimes nobody knew if they were working on a Phil solo record or a Lizzy album.
Partway into the tour, many of Thin Lizzy's past guitarists were invited onstage to contribute to some of the songs they had originally recorded, the only exception being Snowy White.
Sykes said that all the previous Thin Lizzy members were welcome to play with Thin Lizzy at any time.
There were no plans for a new album though Thin Lizzy continued to tour.
It had been announced that Thin Lizzy, along with The Answer, were to support AC / DC at stadium shows in England, Ireland and Scotland at the end of June 2009, but these appearances were cancelled after drummer Aldridge broke his collarbone in an accident.
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Blue Murder were an English heavy metal band, founded by ex-Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy guitarist John Sykes.
The firm was founded by James Thin ( 1824-1915 ), taking over the assets of an earlier bookseller.
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To this day, The Thin Blue Line is one of the most critically acclaimed documentaries ever made.
* In December 2001, the United States ' National Film Preservation Foundation announced that Morris's The Thin Blue Line would be one of the 25 films selected that year for preservation in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress, bringing the total at the time to 325.
For example, Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 thriller The 39 Steps features the gimmick of a young couple who find themselves handcuffed together and who eventually, almost in spite of themselves, fall in love with one another, and Woody Van Dyke's 1934 detective comedy The Thin Man portrays a witty, urbane couple who trade barbs as they solve mysteries together.
In April 2003, Ono's Walking on Thin Ice ( Remixes ) was rated No. 1 on Billboard Magazine's " Dance / Club Play Chart ", gaining Ono her first number one hit.
Thin ice may occur naturally but sometimes there is human intervention: the " Committee Elfsteden Nee " is opposed to the race and sabotaged the route in 1997 by laying salt on the ice at one place.
The Thin Man became one of the year's biggest hits, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film.
It was announced in April 2011 that Vivian Campbell would have to leave Thin Lizzy to rejoin Def Leppard after one final gig on 28 May.
From 1974, Thin Lizzy switched from using one lead guitarist to two.
Though others had earlier used similar techniques, Thin Lizzy are widely recognised as one of the first hard rock bands to employ double lead guitar harmony sound – a technique pioneered by Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac and Wishbone Ash in the UK, whilst independently in the USA by Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers Band.
The album, produced by Nikola Vranjković, brought eleven songs, two of which are covers of traditional songs, and one of them being a cover of the Thin Lizzy song " Sarah ".
He also composed one song on his own, " Ray Gun ", from their first album, Thin Lizzy.
* The Town Hall, known locally as the Market House, is reputed as one of Thin Lizzy's first concert venues, and has seen U2 and several other noted bands play there over the years.
He also remixed another Garage classic ( Yoko Ono's " Walking On Thin Ice ," which became her first Billboard number one ever ), opened another Space during Winter Music Conference ( the new location down the block ), and took another Dancestar award, this time ' Best Party ' for " Be Yourself.
After Vizetelly's imprisonment for obscene libel the novel was one of those revised and expurgated by his son, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly ; this mutilated version entitled The Fat and the Thin appeared in 1896 and has been reprinted many times.
To prepare for the film, Conran had his cast watch old movies, such as Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ) for Paltrow's performance and The Thin Man ( 1934 ) for the relationship between Nick and Nora that was to be echoed in the one between Joe and Polly.
Screenwriter Ted Griffin lists Packer's story, as recounted in a couple of paragraphs of Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man, as one of his inspirations for Carlyle's character.
Down one point with two arrows left, Thin hit a ten and watched her opponent score eight, pulling her ahead.
Although it is said Queen Victoria owned one, and her son and heir, King Edward VII, did own a wire fox terrier named Caesar, the breed was not popular as a family pet until the 1930s, when The Thin Man series of feature films was created.
He also claimed that " Cowboy Song " is " arguably one of the best songs Thin Lizzy ever produced ".
Thin, extracellular, electron-dense lines, parallel to the plasma membrane, subjacent to the outer plaque are visible in one third of HDs and are termed sub-basal dense plates ( SBDPs ).
They have released four studio albums ( Proud Like a God in 1997, Don't Give Me Names in 2000, Walking on a Thin Line in 2003, Bel Air in 2011 ), one live album ( Live in 2003 ), two compilation albums ( Planet of the Apes in 2004 and Lost ( T ) apes in 2006 ), fifteen singles and five video albums.
Jon Krakauer, in Into Thin Air, mentions the mountain as one of his earlier difficult ascents ( 1992 ): " I'd scaled a frightening, mile-high spike of vertical and overhanging granite called Cerro Torre ; buffeted by hundred-knot winds, plastered with frangible atmospheric rime, it was once ( though no longer ) thought to be the world's hardest mountain ".
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